Network security vendor Nominum has inked a world-first distribution deal with Nextgen Distribution.
“Until recently our focus has been on the carrier market,” Carl Braden, Nominum’s Asia Pacific sales director told CNR. “However we have also begun to focus on the enterprise space, which makes this agreement with Nextgen Distribution fit perfectly.”
Nominum’s history is around naming and addressing, or DNS, solutions, Braden added. Customers currently include Telstra Big Pond and Telstra Mobile, along with Vodafone.
The work with Vodafone centres on the child exploitation blacklist published by Interpol. Queries associated with this list run to around 10,000 instances per second, all of which are handled by Nominum technology.
The company’s latest offering, dubbed N2, allows enterprise and carrier customers to apply an policy and intelligence directly onto a DNS application. A further example is the ability to block botnet traffic from a particular address, which effectively shuts down the botmaster.
John Walters, managing director of Nextgen Distribution, said the Nominum agreement fits with the company’s enterprise technology and data centre focus.
“One of the key technologies we were looking to add to our roster was in security,” Walters said.
“With what Nominum is doing now, we can take the heritage telco business into the enterprise,” he added. “We will be focusing on the reseller and systems integration community.”
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