A10 Networks in partnership with RSA Security to provide enhanced interoperable threat protection capabilities

A10 Networks, a technology leader in application networking has announced its partnership with RSA, the Security Division of EMC, to support increase security capabilities for joint customers. Through its RSA Ready Technology Partner Program (RTPP), RSA has authenticated interoperability with A10 Thunder Application Delivery Controller’s (ADC) innovative SSL Insight feature, that lets RSA Security Analytics to check SSL and expose concealed threats in encrypted traffic.

A10 will also be providing demos of its SSL Insight technology to RSA Conference 2015 attendees from April 20 to April 24, at the Moscone Center South Expo.

It’s worth mentioning that the A10 Thunder ADC is the first load balancing solution that offers SSL Insight features like URL classification. It also delivers the highest performance SSL inspection solution available to empower large enterprises to decrypt SSL traffic at prompt speeds. SSL Insight is available immediately for the A10 Thunder ADC product line.

The press release notes, Thunder ADC customers gain vital visibility into SSL traffic, allowing them to eliminate the SSL blind spot in corporate defenses, detect advanced attacks, and scale RSA Security Analytics deployments with load balancing.

“We are honored to collaborate with RSA to further empower security operations teams to detect and investigate the most advanced security attacks,” said Paul Nicholson, Director of Product Marketing at A10 Networks. “A10 Thunder ADC delivers a wide array of SSL inspection, load balancing and high availability features to satisfy and exceed customers’ requirements. Joint A10 and RSA customers can now utilize these high-performance SSL Insight technologies to gain full visibility into all communications.”

“RSA Security Analytics is a market leader in packet capture and analysis. We combine that with log collection, endpoint data and Netflow to go beyond traditional SIEM and provide a high level of visibility, inspection and analysis,” said Chad Loeven, Director of Partnerships, RSA. “By adding enhanced SSL interoperability to our RSA Security Analytics platform, we are helping to provide our customers with unparalleled awareness and control over increasingly complex security threats at scale.”

The RSA RTPP is one of the largest and longest-running technology alliance programs of its type, certifying interoperabilities on more than 700 solutions across 300+ organizations, the website notes.