FatPipe Networks Blog

20 Jun

FatPipe’s Focused Threat Protection with Anti-Virus and Data Loss Prevention–Part II

In the previous blog, we discussed about effective Data Loss Prevention (DLP) from the angle of how data is protected and FatPipe’s crucial role in it. In this blog, we explore the types of sensitive data FatPipe’s antivirus/DLP solution is committed to safeguard.

Safeguard Data, Ensure Compliance, and Strengthen Trust

A strong DLP strategy also involves clearly defining and safeguarding your organization’s most valuable data assets. This includes identifying sensitive data, performing pattern matching, and analyzing signature types.

FatPipe intelligently leverages user behavior patterns, signature types, and false positive analysis to fine-tune both custom and predefined DLP configurations.
Custom policies foster operational efficiency, while predefined categories ensure swift deployment avoiding the pitfalls of regulatory failures realized only in hindsight.
To mitigate insider threats, FatPipe categorizes sensitive data including PII, credentials, financial records, healthcare data, and compliance-related content into granular security labels, ensuring protection against unauthorized access or leakage.
Compliance violations are detected using pattern- and signature-based rules.
The DLP engine continuously performs tuning of detection across security-critical content with minimal disruption, helping you stay ahead of the curve.
Custom policies give the leeway for organizations to tailor rules to their unique needs. Take for example the following: setting up a policy to detect internal project code names in outbound emails or flagging file transfers consisting of company’s confidential designs or scanning uploaded or shared config/text files for hardcoded credentials or API keys that may be exposed accidentally.
Predefined templates enable rapid deployment and regulatory alignment. For instance, choosing the healthcare category provides built-in detection rules for PHI, enabling swift deployment aligned with HIPAA-related data types.

By prioritizing DLP, companies protect critical data, simplify compliance, and strengthen brand credibility. FatPipe stays firm in its mission of placing both simplicity and security in equal weight, addressing the growing pains of organizations in maintaining data protection being one of its priorities.

09 Jun

FatPipe’s Focused Threat Protection with Anti-Virus and Data Loss Prevention

As organizations generate and manage digital information at an alarming rate, the demand for risk-aware and visibility-driven DLP systems has never been greater. Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions essentially focus on preventing the unauthorized transmission or exposure of sensitive data beyond the realms of an organization, be it through email, web uploads, removable media, or insider misuse.

Balancing Security with Performance: FatPipe’s Smart Approach
While the need for DLP is undeniable, industries often face the challenge of balancing strong protection with operational efficiency. This is precisely where FatPipe makes the difference: delivering powerful, integrated security without compromising on performance. Just take the instance of blocking or scanning of potentially dangerous attachments which aids in preventing data leakage and malware infections. FatPipe can identify and flag suspicious content in files and emails and also scan for known malware, all without slowing business operations. Moreover, FatPipe’s antivirus/DLP offering maintains a reasonable balance between effective protection and operational efficiency. Here’s how FatPipe maintains the right balance:

Effective Protection Perspective: Given that today’s threat landscape is hostile, aggressiveness in certain FatPipe’s features only ease the gravity of the situation. Features like MIME type blocking, SMTP relay restrictions, and email file extension control prevent malware infiltration through deceptive attachments and rogue email servers. For example, if not for the restricting capacity that is leveraged while using certain file extensions in email attachments, your organization can easily become a prey of malware or data loss. Throttling risky file types, YouTube restrictions, and caching policies further harden the network against social engineering and bandwidth abuse.
Operational Efficiency Perspective: Also given the increased downtime, admin overhead, and need for quick access to trusted resources, FatPipe’s antivirus/DLP protection strategy allows customization or tuning to avoid false positives, is optimized for performance to not overwhelm system resources, is flexible enough to minimize user disruption, is policy-driven, and allows different enforcement levels for different departments or risk levels. For e.g., you can get the benefit of filtering inappropriate YouTube videos without blocking the entire platform, preserving access for business or educational purposes.

FatPipe’s antivirus and DLP solution ensures that an equilibrium is achieved: proactive in protection, yet adaptable in practice. But effective DLP isn’t just about how you protect, it’s also about what you protect. In the second part of this series, we will delve into how FatPipe identifies and protects different types of sensitive data, and how both predefined and custom DLP configurations can be harnessed to align protection with your organization’s unique data ambit and compliance needs.

What Next?

Our advanced Antivirus and DLP solution is a pivotal part of our Cybersecurity product. Keep visiting our resources for more updates on such features, or learn how you can be among the first to experience comprehensive security with endpoint and data protection by reaching us at support@fatpipeinc.com.

21 Feb

Why Enterprises Should Take FatPipe WAN Optimization Seriously

FatPipe is the only product that combines WAN edge with true SD-WAN and true WAN optimization in a single software.

There is a wide misconception that WAN optimization is only about traffic shaping, data de-duplication, compression, data caching, and protocol spoofing. While these techniques are a good start, they often fail short of providing peak performance of a modern wide-area network where the networks are becoming complex and the nature of data traffic is changing with implosion of cloud workloads and huge amount of voice plus video traffic. An addition of flexible connectivity, application path optimization, non-duplication of packets and application portability to this list helps companies greatly improve network performance.

How FatPipe Addresses Modern Organizations’ Need for Truly Optimized WAN Performance

FatPipe patented technology has enabled organizations to enhance network performance and improve end user experience multifold.

FatPipe MPVPN: FatPipe true SD-WAN has unique ability of single IP framework across multiple divergent links that optimizes the network as it works without dynamic routing protocols to save the overheads and tunnel overheads. This feature has resolved the problem of aggregation of 4G/5G last miles with other terrestrial lines.

Data Compression: FatPipe has integrated data compression, and it can be applied for specific applications, locations, or combination of the two.

De-Duplication: FatPipe reduces the number of duplicate packets that needed to be sent across the WAN to complete a session flow.

Date Caching: Similar to integrated data compression, FatPipe has integrated data caching, and it can be applied for specific applications, locations, or combination of the two.

Application Protocol Optimization: FatPipe optimizes application flow whenever the situation demands. The idea is if an application runs over a LAN, it should function optimally on the WAN too.

Application Layer Quality of Service: FatPipe policy rules prioritize applications that are business-critical.

Application Path Optimization: FatPipe enables application flows to be optimized across the best path selection for each application based on real-time metrics like latency, packet loss, jitter, and available bandwidth.

FatPipe – Addressing New Challenges in WAN Optimization

FatPipe WAN optimization solution reduces TCO through its advanced techniques. It is at an innovative byte level, ensuring industry-best traffic optimization granularity. It boils down to making intelligent decisions in the method of data processing and transmission across the WAN.

28 Jan

Part 4: FatPipe SD-WAN for Executive Leadership

What Executive Leadership Should Look for in a Good SD-WAN: Part 4 of our SD-WAN Series

We are back with yet another blog “What Executive Leadership Should Look for in a Good SD-WAN: Part 4 of our SD-WAN Series” for this SD-WAN series. Join us in understanding how FatPipe is beneficial to Executive leadership and their teams.

Business Continuity and Resilience

FatPipe SD-WAN fulfills the resiliency objectives of CEOs to improve upon the Network Service Level parameters and to reduce downtimes to almost zero with 99.998% availability. These improvements are possible due to exclusive FatPipe patents providing seamless automatic failover and link aggregation across divergent media facilitating undisturbed operations. Our centralized management, zero touch configurations, and real-time analytics enable proactive issue resolution and ensure critical business processes remain operational.

Network Transformation with Reduced Overall TCO

In this cloud-first world and where user experience has become more important than ever, FatPipe provides network transformation with an innovative state-of-the-art technology at reduced total cost of ownership (TCO). FatPipe SD-WAN’s non duplication of bandwidth for seamless failover has potential to save bandwidth costs by 50% with flexibility through application-aware routing and centralized architecture for deployment of mission-critical applications.

Secure Network

FatPipe secures enterprise network using its patented blockchain-type data transmission technology along with several other security features including intrusion detection/prevention, URL filtering, DNS filtering, and antivirus, to provide total 360-degree security. FatPipe also provides cloud-based security.

Enhanced End User Experience and High-Quality Support

With customers and workforce engagement being considered as a major yardstick for business health, FatPipe SD-WAN offers improved network performance besides supervising network connections for quality. This boosts end users’ experience who benefit from application tools too for a seamless experience. FatPipe 24*7 support and AI-based support is always there when customer need them most at critical times to immediately restore the broken parts.

Comprehensive Reporting of Network, Security, Compliance and Regulatory Monitoring

FatPipe EnterpriseView® provides the ability to monitor, manage, and maintain all FatPipe devices from a central location. Branch offices can have consistent policies downloaded to the edge device which helps in maintaining regulatory compliance. FatPipe provides zero touch install for branch and edge devices reducing IT workloads manifold.

FatPipe SD-WAN solution is backed by best partnerships, ensuring seamless integration with industry-leading technologies. We provide proactive support for enterprises, thereby delivering unmatched reliability and performance. With time-tested products and solutions, we empower CEOs and their teams to achieve strategic business goals with confidence and agility.

10 Jan

Part 3: FatPipe SD-WAN for Technology Leaders

What Technology Leaders Should Look for in a Good SD-WAN: Part 3 of Our SD-WAN Insights Series

Hope you found our previous blog “What Network Administrators Should Look for in a Good SD-WAN: Part 2 of Our SD-WAN Insights Series” informative. In the next blog on this series, we have shared the set of FatPipe SD-WAN features that technology leaders including CEOs and CIOs will find useful.

Technology leadership can be a crucial achiever with regard to an organization’s operational and strategic facets. They are vested with the objective to select technology solutions that future-proof their organizations but also reduce total cost of ownership. Join us in understanding what it takes to be a good SD-WAN solution for a CTO and CIO as well as harness the full potential your network infrastructure with FatPipe SD-WAN and cloud-based security products at much lower cost than existing network spend.

Improvement in Network Performance and SLAs

FatPipe SD-WAN provides a patent-based technique to aggregate divergent media links that improves network SLA manifold even in remotest areas. Moreover, FatPipe has the unique ability of data transmission across lines without the use of dynamic routing protocols using FatPipe MPSec^TM that makes network lighter, simpler, faster and more secure. Please refer to our Intelligent WAN Edge blog for more details.

Simple Network

FatPipe SD-WAN offers another patent of single IP framework across divergent links to avoid maze and complexity of managing multiple IP addresses on the device to ensure that the network is simple to manage and operate. Centralized management platform of FatPipe offers zero touch configuration and simple single-click change management for most of the use cases. This ultimately leads to enhanced performance and unmatched reliability and has potential to reduce network management manpower as the network setup becomes less complicated.

Cost Savings of upto 50%

FatPipe being the inventor of key SD-WAN features has patented and innovative ways of network transformation for reducing network TCO by 50%. Read our blog on How FatPipe SD-WAN Reduces Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of Network Infrastructure to understand the vast SD-WAN expertise and experience, with relevant use cases for significant reduction in organizational network costs.

Total Security

FatPipe provides security that is scalable helping organizations of varied sizes with its advanced protection against a wide spectrum of threats through its blockchain level of transmission, stateful firewall, web filtering, powerful IDS and IPS, DDoS attack protection, cloud security, e-mail attachment containment, and compliance monitoring.

Deep Analytics and Dashboards

FatPipe SD-WAN protects the total infrastructure from potential risks through its focus on links, application and security reporting. It vigilantly monitors traffic patterns and identifies suspicious activities in real-time, thus placing your organization one step ahead of security breaches.

Cloud Security aka SASE Enablement

Extending SD-WAN with the security functions of SASE ensures a holistic and robust defense against cyber threats for organizations.

Adaptability to Cloud Architecture

FatPipe SD-WAN seamlessly adapts to cloud architecture thereby simplifying operations and not negatively impacting total costs.

Our teams are just one phone call / one email away for CTOs and CIOs to provide detailed presentation along with case studies on FatPipe unique features.