LINDY Electronics announced today that it is protecting SME and wireless networks from a wide range of threats with its exclusive agreement to distribute throughout Europe Arxceo’s Ally IP100, an award-winning appliance that combines anti-reconnaissance with intrusion prevention technology. The Ally protects by providing confusing and conflicting information to would be attackers that are trying to scan a network for vulnerabilities and stops zero-day attacks, DNS cache poisoning, network reconnaissance, denial of service attacks and other malicious activity.

Reconnaissance is the first step of a professional hacker to ensure a successful attack. Once a hacker has discovered the systems, platforms and databases you use, it’s only a matter of time until a weak spot is discovered and exploited. The Ally protects networks by using Arxceo’s anomaly-based intrusion prevention technology and can be deployed in ten minutes with no configuration changes to other devices required, making it very easy to implement.

The Ally sits invisibly in-line on the network and can perform detection and prevention on both sides of the appliance, offering protection from both internal and external hackers. It does not rely on signature databases or the expensive hardware normally required to search for threats in real-time. Since many network attacks exploit the design of industry-standard protocols, such as TCP, UDP, and HTTP, the Ally’s PnPro™ architecture avoids the use of traditional network stacks, making it impossible for attackers to target or compromise the device itself.

Arxceo’s patent pending Tag-UR-IT™ technology is used by the Ally to constantly verify and authenticate transmissions to eliminate address spoofing – a frequent exploit used in both attacks and reconnaissance. This stops an attacker from establishing or maintaining a session using a spoofed address. Tag-UR-IT hardens the network stacks of every host it protects reducing their 12% possibility of brute force session hijacking to just 0.00001% and hardens the DNS against cache poisoning attacks, protecting organisations from emerging attacks that now include redirecting traffic from legitimate web sites to bogus servers.

In addition to the Ally IP100, LINDY is offering the Ally IP1000, a high end version of the IP100 that supports up to 1Gbit throughput and includes NetFailOpen™, an intelligent network relay.