It’s easy to turn a deaf ear to the controversy surrounding recent copyright protection bills like the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) or the PROTECT IP Act, which threatened to curtail free speech on ...

Citing an increase in attacks that take advantage of holes in existing firewall technology, NetScreen Technologies Inc. said on Monday that it will release new “deep packet inspection” features across ...

The security appliance vendor also introduced the Security Management Platform, designed to manage hardware and hardware health, network level configurations and security policies. "The Deep ...

Imagine a device that sits inline in a major ISP's network and can throttle P2P traffic at differing levels depending on the time of day. Imagine a device that allows one user access only to e-mail ...

Imagine a technology that can stop spam and malware, identify and block illegal downloads, and allow ISPs to prioritize the data they transmit by content as well as by type. Sounds pretty good. Now ...

The main problem I have with DPI isn't them reading my data (I assume this anyway with anything I send out unencrypted on the internet) its that they treat different kinds differently, possibly ...

How does deep packet inspection work? Deep packet inspection examines the contents of packets passing through a given checkpoint and makes real-time decisions depending on what a packet contains and ...

If legislation like SOPA and PIPA ever passes, it may require your ISP to start monitoring your online activity with deep packet inspection It’s easy to turn a deaf ear to the controversy surrounding ...

Analyzing network traffic to discover the type of application that sent the data. In order to prioritize traffic or filter out unwanted data, deep packet inspection can differentiate data, such as ...