The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) today launched three new products with varied utility -- Revival1000, GYN1000 and STARS.

Revival1000 provides an effective solution for critical data protection, GYN1000 provides stateful inspection and STARS for web-based services.

"The Critical National Infrastructure (CNI), which includes electric grids, water and wastewater management and oil and gas networks are controlled by SCADA. Since SCADA systems use protocols that rely on the TCP/IP suite for communication to the control center and for peer-to-peer message exchange, they are exposed to an increasing number of security threats from both outside and inside networks," C-DAC's Executive Director, Zia Saquib, told reporters here today.

He said there was a need to update technology taking into consideration the challenges posed before the country due to the new types of attacks developing continuously.

"With new types of attacks appearing continually, developing flexible and adaptive security oriented approaches is a severe challenge," Zia Saquib said.

C-DAC's Revival1000 provides for complete recovery of data, continuous block level data replication, efficient network utilisation using WAN optimisation, automatic failover, data security using IPSec and CHAP authentication.
On the other hand, features of GYN1000 include inline bridge mode operation, signature detection/protection, server crack protection, stateful inspection and detection and comprehensive threat protection.

STARS is a solution for web-based services such as e-commerce, e-shopping and e-banking, which ensures high level security for authentication besides achieving excellent usability.