Enterprise networks face challenges continuously due to rapid growth, newer type of devices, BYOD initiatives, applications demanding more bandwidth, stringent compliance regimes, vast geographical spread, presence of malware and rogue devices, hygiene of endpoints, users with malicious intent and network outages, misuse of network by employees, complexities of multi vendor heterogeneous equipment etc. High performance network, visibility of users, traffic and threats in real-time and automated security management on LAN making networks identity-aware is always on top of CIO's mind. Unlike perimeter having multiple MBPS of traffic, internal LAN traffic is usually in order of multiple Gigabits per second reaching from thousands of concurrent users on LAN or branches. With proliferation of smart phones, laptops and other BYOD devices, the organization perimeter is dissolving. On high speed LAN networks, the threats or malware can rapidly propagate and spread across network from a single infected system. Hence, protecting the perimeter is just not sufficient. High speed LAN also needs additional layers beyond VLAN security. LAN security plays a significant part in the security strategy of the enterprise network. LAN security is required to be deeper, faster and highly unified to combat advanced daily threats. Shielding enterprises from all form of threats for their LAN networks is Pune headquartered Nevis Networks, a company that designs, develops and markets high-performance security switching and appliance solutions.

Nevis Networks, headed by CEO, Radha Shelat, and CTO Raghunath Iyer is one of the few Indian companies that has successfully developed and deployed advanced Networking security technology. The company has concentrated on LAN and Data Centre security given that maintaining sanity within the LAN has direct impact on the operational effectiveness of the enterprise. "Nevis has unified several technologies into a single appliance that has wire speed performance and it uses deep packet inspection technique to provide features like Identity based firewall, Network Access Control, IPS, Network based Anomaly, Application recognition, Guest management, Malware control, 360 degree view of threats, users and application on the network," says Shelat. The flexibility of the LAN based services provided by Nevis for BYOD, mobility of users, mobility of devices and extension of LAN perimeters has been proven to be very effective for a host of enterprises across India.

A testimony of the company’s expertise is with its solutions being deployed by the largest private bank in India, certain IITs and NITs, IT and ITeS companies, DRDO and in corporate companies of business groups such as Tata to name a few. One of the major highlights of the journey has been how the Nevis team was able to handle over 75,000 networking elements for India’s largest private bank, ICICI. The company was honored with "The Best Banking Security Award" by "The Asian Bankers club" in 2011.

Nevis provides solutions for smaller networks where the key pain points are different, or defense networks where customizations are often required for adopting the solution as per the establishment's very specific needs. Nevis continues to produce LAN security solutions that can work with ease in heterogeneous multi vendor environments. Leveraging its expertise and experience in the segment, Nevis Networks is working towards developing next generation products with much higher throughput and better application intelligence, so as to ensure the best of breed Network security for its clients. Nevis is placed comfortably to address the growing need and accelerated adoption of such solutions within the country