By Neil J. Rubenking
Corporate desktops have an easy life because other computers handle most of their security. Spam gets filtered on the mail server. A corporate firewall keeps out all external attacks and may also scan all traffic for viruses. The user doesn't have to think about it, since everything is managed by the IT department. On an individual non-corporate desktop, however, all these security tasks use up CPU time and reduce the system's effective power. Yoggie Security Systems (www.yoggie.com) aims to recharge your desktop's performance by offloading all security tasks to the Yoggie Pico—a separate computer that looks like a USB drive.
Yoggie founder and CEO Shlomo Touboul observed a problem during his tenure as CEO of Finjan Software (which he also founded). Security suites just kept getting bigger, dragging system performance. Every day they would spend time downloading signature updates and code patches, not to mention slapping on a whole new module—probably duplicating code in existing modules—every 16 to 18 months.
Touboul also discovered out that many security suites constantly challenge the user with queries that they don't understand. Users want maximum security with the minimum performance hit possible, and they don't want any hassles.
Yoggie Pico aims to address all of these issues by taking security out of the user's hands and running it entirely outside of Windows. The device has a 520Mhz Intel Pentium processor running 13 distinct security applications under Linux. When installed, its driver "hijacks" all network traffic—wired, wireless, Bluetooth, even G3—and processes it before handing it off to the desktop. The Pico's operating system and essential files are stored in read-only memory and copied to active memory at each boot-up, so even if a Linux-based attack managed to compromise it, a reboot would clean things up.
Network traffic goes through firewall and Intrusion Prevention layers, including deep packet inspection to detect attacks. Next it hits HTTP, FTP, POP3 and SMTP proxies. These in turn connect with antivirus, antispyware, antiphishing and antispam modules, as well as a module that can block URLs based on content.
The Yoggie Pico checks for updates every five minutes using a secure, encrypted connection to Yoggie's servers. It does share bandwidth with the desktop during this time, but doesn't otherwise impact the connection. There's also a web server module so you can log in and view reports. Worried about kids and the Internet? Pocket the Yoggie Pico and they're cut off!
The $179 Yoggie Pico will be available for online order beginning the first week in June and on retailer shelves in the next 60 to 90 days. The price includes a year's subscription to all necessary updates, with renewal costs at $30 per year. It also comes with a license for Kaspersky's antivirus scanner, for those who want to actively scan the system. The Pro version adds a secure VPN Client and central management for $199 and $40 per year
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