check this out, more of a general product spiel than specific on
security, but it does show you the maturity of the products stack up.
A good base to start of with

http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/accel/2008/0107netop2.html

Ivan

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:56 AM, Bretten, Andrew P
<andrew.bretten (at) kroger (dot) com [email concealed]> wrote:
>
> WW, you should absolutely considor security when deploying these solutions.
>
> Questions should come up such as does the device encrypt the data it "caches" on the device ?
> How does it decrypt the data and where are the keys used for encrypt/decrypt stored ?
> What are is the performance impact of encryption ?
>
> Andy
>
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> Subject: WAN optimization security
>
> Our organization is looking at WAN optimization products (cisco and
> riverbed).  I'm not all that familiar with eithe products, but it
> seems they are file caching servers on steroids (maybe I'm over
> simplifying).  My biggest concern is what if any security
> considerations do I need to look at when deploying these devices?
>
> Thanks
> WW
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