Cavium Announces FIPS 140-2 Certification of LiquidSecurity™ Family

SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 29, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking, today announced that the LiquidSecurity™ Hardware Security Module (HSM) Family has received the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) FIPS 140-2 Level 2 and 3 certification. The LiquidSecurity HSM family provides a partitioned, centralized and elastic key management solution with the highest transaction/sec performance. This product family is available as a PCI Express adapter with comprehensive software and also as a HSM appliance. It offers a no compromise, secure and cost efficient solution that addresses the stringent security and regulatory compliance requirements of Enterprise, Banking and Government security applications as they migrate to the Public or Private cloud. Major applications for this product family include Crypto as-a-Service, Key Management as-a-Service, Payment systems, Database as-a-Service, SaaS Applications, Virtual Private Clouds in the Public Cloud, IoT and Smart device authentication, and Smart Manufacturing.

LiquidSecurity® FamilyThe LiquidSecurity™ family provides a partitioned, centralized and elastic key management solution with the highest bulk and transaction/sec performance. It addresses the high performance security requirements for private key management and administration while also addressing elastic performance per virtual/network domain for the virtualized cloud environment. Product options include FIPS 140-2 level 2 and 3 certified as well as non-FIPS versions.

Multiple ADC vendors such as F5, A10, Kemp and traffic monitoring services such as Extrahop have already announced support for LiquidSecurity solution.  Cavium is working to add several additional network services vendors to this list.

"The FIPS validation of our LiquidSecurity family, provides a certified product to customers in target markets that address high performance, high assurance, compliance and security needs," said Rajneesh Gaur, Vice President and General Manager at Cavium.  "These breakthrough capabilities will accelerate the transition to the Cloud for Enterprise, Banking and Government secure applications."

AvailabilityLiquidSecurity HSM Family is now available from Cavium in both PCI Express Adapter and appliance form factors.

About Cavium Cavium is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing in enterprise, data center, cloud and wired and wireless service provider applications. Cavium offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance from 100 Mbps to 100 Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality in enterprise, data-center, broadband/consumer and access & service provider equipment. Cavium's processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tool support, reference designs and other services. Cavium's principal offices are in San Jose, California with design team locations in California, Massachusetts, India, and China. For more information, please visit: http://www.cavium.com

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