Also, to detect malware, the best practice is to employ deep packet inspection (DPI).

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Most importantly, however, the new Roskomnadzor system introduces DPI (deep packet inspection) on a nationwide scale.

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The answer turns out to be deep packet inspection, which examines network traffic to identify what you're sending and where it's going.

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The apparent hack attack follows the approval of a new standard for deep packet inspection by a meeting last month of the World Telecommunication Standardisation Assembly.

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Marc Rotenberg, director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, told us in April that asking broadband carriers perform deep packet inspection for cybersecurity purposes could violate the Fourth Amendment and antiwiretapping laws.

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Born as an IPS solution NetASQ rapidly leveraged their ability to do deep packet inspection, (or, as IDC terms it, complete content inspection) to apply policies based not just on source-destination-port, but on content of assembled packet streams.

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The router, called ASR-1000, allows Internet service providers (ISPs), large companies and universities to move data and integrate services that enable security, voice over Internet, deep packet inspection and the authentication of broadband flow to specific subscribers, all in a single piece of hardware.

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The technology intercepted the flow of traffic from Libya's main Internet service provider and harvested information from the stream using a method known as deep-packet inspection.

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