Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) is the First Frontier of Cyber Defense

Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) is the first frontier of the cyber defense of the government networks and the only currently available technology capable to provide security of IP traffic at ever growing rates that has inherent traffic management capabilities, says the market report Deep Packet Inspection (DPI): U.S. Government Market Forecast 2013-2018. Recently massive growth in data processing power and new cyber threats have spurred the deployment of DPI technologies in the U.S. Government agencies in the framework of Einstein, an intrusion detection system that monitors the network gateways of government departments and agencies in the United States for unauthorized traffic.

The U.S. Government Deep Packet Inspection market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 31% from 2013 to around US$ 1.8 Billion by 2018.