WireCuda

Introduction

Inline Gigabit Ethernet Processor for Packet Capture and Injection.

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Features

Small form factor 90mm x 180mm
Below 10W power consumption
Unobtrusive full duplex 1Gb/s in-line operation
Transparent traffic path-through
Support for injection mode of operation
x4 1GB/s Ethernet ports (x2 RJ-45, x2 SFP)
Fail-Safe support on copper wire
Full PoE+ bridging support on copper wire
Intel Quad-Core 14nm lithography processor
4GB of RAM
Up to 64GB of local flash storage
Up to 2TB of high-speed SATA III data storage
Video and Serial terminal interfaces
Super-Speed USB 3.0 interface
WiFi/BT/LTE/4G/3G/EDGE/HSPA and proprietary wireless support
SIM card and microSD card slots

The Story Behind WireCuda

Design concept was inspired by Alva Lease 'Skip' Duckwall and his talk at DESCON 19 "A Bridge Too Far" where he presented a concept of defeating wired 802.1X with a Transparent Bridge using Linux. So why not implement the same and even better idea on a hardware level? What started as a security gadget project for pentesting turned into one of a kind appliance that implements a very sophisticated inline packet capture and injection engine.

Here goes a formal sales pitch:

IT Security professionals, service providers and application developers need easy access to versatile and flexible tools. There are few high powered packet capture and injection tools that allow easy inline installation with multiple access and data retention options - one small device that works on both wired and optical gigabit networks. ALFTEL brings you a solution.

Wirecuda is easy configurable and can rapidly switch functions to create your customized platform:

Full rate Gigabit Ethernet capture
Full speed Gigabit Ethernet injection
Data retention with flexible options
Traffic monitoring over copper, fiber, or wireless
Smart media conversion
Filtering Network TAP
Protocol data logger
Metadata exporter and analyzer
IP traffic generator and QoS measurement
Inline penetration testing appliance
And much more...

Wirecuda implements pass-through functionality that simulates a network TAP while remaining fully transparent to security monitoring tools (aka "wire in a middle").

Wirecuda is completely fail-safe on copper cabling, passing the full unaltered data stream on software or power failure.

Wirecuda supports safe PoE+ bridging on copper cabling. PoE+ injection mode for high-power applications is supported with an external power source.

Wirecuda supports optional high-speed storage (up to 2TB) for data retention and multiple wireless interfaces for access, monitoring and control applivcations.

Wirecuda is compatible with any x86 compliant OS (Linux, BSD, Windows etc.)

Availability

Design in progress
Planned release in Fall 2019
Will be launched through Crowdsourcing campaign

Documentation & Support

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WireCuda Gallery

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