Network Intelligence Technology Experts Qosmos Comment on Intel’s Acquisition of McAfee

Move Underscores the Need for Visibility into Data in Motion at ALL Levels

Intel today announced its acquisition of McAfee.  Intel CEO Paul Otellini said on the conference call: "We believe security will be most effective when enabled in hardware."  

Qosmos sees a broader picture for better secured systems across the technology value chain  – enabled by better visibility into active data, regardless of where the data is at any moment.  And the network is the converging point to access this intelligence. 

Most companies lack the appetite and capital for such acquisitions, but will nonetheless require technologies that enable visibility into the path and content of data transiting networks.  For such specialized expertise, there is Qosmos.  Qosmos, the expert in so-called “network intelligence technologies,” provides software and hardware components that embed inside applications, equipment and networks to capture, extract and identify data in motion. 

According to Qosmos CEO Thibaut Bechetoille, “In today’s network-dependent economy, this acquisition underscores the critical need for greater visibility of active data  across the technology spectrum – whether in hardware  and processors, in the networks themselves, in the systems that manage them or  in the applications that run with real-time data – to enable more secure and better performing solutions.” 

Technically speaking, Qosmos technology provides visibility and data extraction at unparalleled depth (up to and including layer 7), speed (with throughputs of up to 80 Gbps) and detail (recognizing 300+ network and application protocols and extracting more than 4,000 metadata elements).

In plain speak, technology providers including software vendors, systems integrators, developers and equipment manufacturers use Qosmos components inside their solutions to make them more secure, better performing and better monetized by having the detail to see patterns and aberrations that would otherwise be invisible.

Qosmos experts and executives are available to discuss why such visibility is critical and why network visibility – network intelligence – is THE keystone to improved security.