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Networking and security performance: offloading networking and security functions to the DPU enables line rate performance with no core CPU overhead and delivers a distributed firewall with L4-L7 security without impacting network performance.
Granular Security and Observability: DPU-based Acceleration leverages granular network segmentation to isolate devices and applications and prevent attacks from communicating with other parts of the network. Comprehensive observability across all network traffic flows makes it simpler to establish monitoring and incident response procedures to identify breaches in real time.
Zero Trust Security: DPU-based Acceleration provides the building blocks for a performant zero-trust solution. Providing workload-infrastructure isolation, complete stateful L7 controls, advanced threat prevention, strong perimeter defenses, and granular microsegmentation with a single solution that provides consistent policy and automation across virtualized, containerized, and bare metal workloads.