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Titan IC Licenses Its Helios RegEx Processor to LookingGlass for Network-Based Threat Mitigation
September 2016 by Marc Jacob
Titan IC Systems (Titan IC) announces that LookingGlass Cyber Solutions (“LookingGlass”) has signed a multi-year strategic partnership to further advance their state of the art network–based threat mitigation with the Titan IC Helios regular expression (RegEx) processor.
LookingGlass threat mitigation solutions will take full advantage of the Helios RegEx processor to assist in threat detection by implementing tens of thousands of complex regular expressions in network data at speeds up to 40 Gb/s. Titan IC has developed this ground-breaking technology and has implemented it on a Xilinx Kintex Ultrascale Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), so it can be specifically customized for each customer’s needs. The technology can be easily updated while in full operation allowing the addition of new complex regular expressions during run time.
Regular expression processing has mainly been executed in software up until now and has thus suffered inherent throughput difficulties that require vast amounts of host processing. However, with the introduction of the Titan IC Helios RegEx processor, many of these issues can be eradicated by hardware offload acceleration on FPGA. The Helios RegEx processor is proficient in analysing data at full network throughput rates reaching 40 Gb/s and can implement up to 1 million complex regular expressions in parallel.
