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Regardless of the elapsed time of a security breach, the fact is that one day is far too long, and by the time a breach is detected. Data is often compromised during the initial breach. Organizations need a more intelligent approach to detect threats earlier and turn the tide against sophisticated cyberattacks.

At Interface Masters, we design, engineer and manufacture embedded systems and sophisticated embedded network hardware appliances for top-tier companies as well as for our own brand. Across a diverse range of CPUs (x86, ARM, MIPs and PowerPC) and applications, our teams undergo a rigorous end-to-end development process that covers a product’s...

Rapid growth in IT operations and cloud adoption have combined to create significant cybersecurity challenges for most organizations and rampant opportunities for attackers. An organization’s attack vectors encompass all its customer-facing and internal services and IT infrastructure including network, server, and storage systems.

Advancing networking hardware for over 27 years, Interface Masters provides U.S. designed and manufactured solutions, complete and ready for our customers Linux software load . The Silicon Valley OEM’s best-in-class team is made up of design engineers, project managers and operations professionals, designing, tracking and testing solutions. Driven...

The right partner, development process and materials ensure success when looking for custom networking hardware. While selecting the right partner may be a challenge, it is the critical step that will drive decisions from early conversations to solution deliverables. Silicon Valley based Interface Masters is a network hardware solutions provider...

Interface Masters Technologies, a leading US designer and manufacturer of OEM/ODM of networking appliances solutions swiftly executes complex partner designs. Drawing from 26 years of hardware expertise, and 60+ off-the-shelf network hardware appliances designed and manufactured in the U.S.A, the engineering process, along with partner...

5G is the latest iteration on the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) high speed, wireless Wide Area Network (WAN) standard. The new networking option boosts performance, lowers latency, and more easily supports edge devices than its predecessors. However, the emerging WAN is not perfect, and its security features are one area that OEMs...

Designing and building a secure network requires smart, informed decisions and knowing the network’s risks. For some, securing a network drives them to paralysis by analysis. Too much analysis, overthinking and input to the point where nothing has been clearly secured. The decisions that go into securing a network today are complex with additional...

The countdown is here for IEC 62368-1, the safety standard for Information Technology Equipment and Audio/Video Equipment. If you have not started your planning, do so. There is a lot of information to read through and little time before the deadline. 62368-1 is the standard intended to replace IEC 60950-1 and IEC 60065. A hazard-based,...

News regarding security breaches is broadcast almost every day. Unfortunately, it is now likely an unauthorized entity will gain access to an organization’s data. The Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 140-3 (FIPS 140-3) is a US Government Standard with a goal addressing such a security vulnerability and rendering proprietary...

OEMs, Fortune 100 and startups know that network appliances running security applications are the vigilant watchmen of a network. Designed and built to reside on a network with other hardware, software and services, these appliances can be centralized for a cost-effective security-focused network management solution. Customize the design and build...

Previously Interface Masters posted a blog focused on State-Sponsored IP Theft along with the mounting evidence that a significant portion of the Asian hardware contains hidden data tracking capabilities. The objective for these attacks? Targeting and obtaining intellectual property from government, private enterprise and educational institutions....

For over 25 years, Interface Masters Technologies has provided off-the-shelf innovative networking solutions with customization services to OEMs, Fortune 100 and startup companies. Our headquarters is located in San Jose, California in the heart of Silicon Valley where we design and manufacture all our products.

Scalability, flexibility and cost-effectiveness have solidified cloud computing as a platform of choice for both application development and delivery. However, much of the data generated by end-users and connected devices may never reach the cloud due to privacy requirements, latency constraints, and the high cost associated with pushing large...

During February, 2019, 14 million to 19 million new malware infiltrations were recorded on computers running major brand antivirus software. In global aggregate numbers, malicious state sponsored cyber-attacks generate 3000-8000 gigabits per second of malicious data on enterprise and government servers -- with the nefarious goal to consume network...

Speed, flexibility, and cost savings are generating the migration for most companies to move IT over to cloud computing. In addition to expansion propelled by businesses, consumers are also driving cloud computing growth through accelerated adoption of mobile applications like maps, social networking, search, and photo/video sharing, which all...

When a person uses an application like Zelle or Venmo to pay a friend, the operation proceeds smoothly and without incident. With a few ‘user initiated’ steps the transaction concludes, one account balance declines while the other account balance increases – at least when viewed on-line. Behind the scenes, complex networking systems work in tandem...

Adversarial nation states continue to aggressively and broadly use implanted hardware data-tracking devices, cyber tactics and malware to obtain sensitive intellectual property from the United States and Europe – targeting confidential government, private enterprise and educational institution research data.

Securing a company’s networking infrastructure is critical, given the ever-increasing threats to data and resources and the explosion of network edge devices driven by Internet of Things (IoT). Cyber-attacks range from stealing an organization’s intellectual property, to creating and distributing viruses, using web-based attacks, malware, denial...

As cyber-attacks increase in sophistication and effectiveness, growing concerns over traffic interception, as well as the collection and use of unencrypted information, have kindled a global desire for privacy protection. This has led to a massive increase in the use of encryption at the server access layer (such as firewall, load balancing,...

Worldwide spending on information security reached a staggering $86.4 billion in 2017 as organizations stack up firewalls around their network perimeters and inspect incoming and outgoing traffic with an array of products including secure web gateways, forensic tools, advanced threat prevention platforms, and more.

Today enterprises face monumental security challenges. The complexity and quantity of attacks are increasing dramatically, often resulting in compromised personal, enterprise and customer data; misappropriated intellectual property; damaged reputations; and lost productivity. At the same time, security has become more complex.

The challenges faced by IT security professionals today include nebulous boundaries and constantly evolving security policies, the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), the explosion of globally addressable IPv6 end-points and its impact on IoT; the diffusion of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), the spread of wide-ranging heterogeneous network...

Today’s advanced technologies, such as cloud computing, mobility, and big data analytics, are key enablers for improving enterprise productivity. While such advanced technologies provide distinct advantages to businesses, if not supported by the right infrastructure, they can expose enterprises to security risks.

There has never been a time when there was a greater need for an evolutionary transformation of the enterprise WAN. Modes of application use and destinations are changing as more applications move out of enterprise datacenters and off enterprise managed networks; bandwidth demands are increasing rapidly as enterprises try to bring the home...

Every news site has headlines daily about hacks, ransomware, or loss of confidential customer and company data. In the current digital climate, maintaining IT infrastructure security is paramount, and yet most organizations struggle with maintaining IT infrastructure security. Which servers should be acquired? Which security protections will help...

Securing enterprise and cloud networking and computing infrastructure is critical, given increasing threats to mission-critical data and resources. Prevalent cyberattack risks range from stealing an organization’s proprietary information, to virus attacks, malware, denial of service attacks, malicious code, and even stolen devices.

The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) makes network time synchronization a pressing issue. As more and more network-based devices come online, network-based timing becomes critical and with many emerging applications demanding far more accuracy, guaranteeing precise timing across LAN/MAN/WAN networks has become essential.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an undeniable and unstoppable revolution. Immense numbers of intelligent sensors and devices are generating huge amounts of data that contain possibly game-changing information. It is a formidable challenge for IT leaders to collect insights from that data rapidly, cost-effectively, without opening up security...

Telecom operators worldwide are facing an exponential increase in traffic due to the rapid growth of over-the-top (OTT) video providers and social media applications. These competitive threats are forcing such operators to expand their network infrastructures in a business environment that’s already burdened by slow subscriber growth, and in some...

A transformation is rushing through the telecommunications domain, leading to possibly one of the biggest disruptions in the industry’s nearly two-hundred-year-old history. Telecommunication networks are migrating from traditional discrete hardware-centric deployments to cloud-based deployments, with critical network elements deployed using...

The primary goal of software-defined networking (SDN) is the separation of the data plane from the control plane and centralization of the control plane intelligence enabling holistic network routing decisions-making. The data plane is then free to pass packets in an efficient per-hop manner as directed by the control plane.

Make or buy? To come to the right make-versus-buy decision for networking appliances, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) resist the temptation to “feed the beast.” Instead of focusing only on short-term gains, these OEMs keep their long-term strategy and corresponding core competencies in mind. They adopt a clearly defined product strategy,...

A “connected car” refers to the presence of devices in an automobile that utilize in-car connectivity, whether through short-range communications or over the Internet, to provide location, diagnostic, or other information as well as to interface with other cars, homes, offices or infrastructure. Connectivity features that were once only available...

Choosing among multiple types of networking appliance offerings can be a daunting decision for OEMs and their end-customers. Most of the important decisions go beyond the initial capital expense (CapEx) and eventually come down to how appliances best use operational expenses (OpEx).

In bringing a networking solution to market, condensed timelines and technology shifts, as well as unexpected product changes, distribution delays and inconsistent support commitments are all part of the picture. Interface Masters Technologies understand this world because we confront such challenges every day. Our business is built around helping...

As we celebrate the new year, Interface Masters Technologies is grateful and proud of the achievements we accomplished in 2017. With a strong sense of community embedded in our company’s values, our team have collectively raised generous financial and food donation to the city’s local food bank.

Software-defined Wide Area Network (SDN), Network functions virtualization (NFV) provide an efficient path to configure & construct networks. The advances in networking programming for SDN and NFV influence accessible, to communication to networking organizations and transporters, the adaptability and the agility required for conveying new...

Interface Masters Technologies expands its Cavium-based product line. Our networking appliances support ARM and MIPS architecture based on advanced Cavium processors – Octeon III and ThunderX. Interface Masters provides support for the Cavium SDK on multiple Linux distributions including Debian and MontaVista.

It’s no wonder corporate networks remain just as—if not, more—vulnerable to failure and compromise than ever before. Seventy-eight percent of initial breaches into corporate networks were described as “relatively easy,” according to data from a recently conducted Verizon study.

A huge finger is currently being shaken at IT, as a new study by Corero Network Security reveals that the majority of teams are not taking proper care of their networks. According to the study’s findings, most businesses fail to implement effective plans to mitigate the impact of a threat or attack, such as a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)...

It seems no one is immune to a cyber-attack these days. From the recent cyber warfare waged against three major U.S. data providers—Dun & Bradstreet Corp, Altegrity Inc’s Kroll Background America Inc and Reed Elsevier’s LexisNexis—to the reoccurring attacks from the Syrian Electronic Army, a group that has been responsible for hacking high-profile...

Many business execs still scratch their heads when it comes to their disaster recovery (DR) or business continuity strategy – or lack thereof. However, having uncertainty as to where to start should not get in the way of ensuring that your DR plan is full-fledged and bullet proof – especially when the financial and reputational consequences are...

The network monitoring space has been booming as of late. For instance, the real-time network monitoring market is slated to reach an impressive $670 million this year, according to Infiniti Research Limited. Furthermore, research from the Ponemon Institute shows that 91 percent of organizations have experienced an unplanned outage in the past 12...