Falcongaze SecureTower and Ideco NGFW Novum Pass Compatibility Testing

Falcongaze and Ideco have announced the successful completion of compatibility testing for two products: the Falcongaze SecureTower DLP system and the Ideco NGFW Novum multifunction firewall. This is formal confirmation that the two vendors' solutions work together in the same infrastructure. It matters most to integrators and information security teams that assemble their defenses from Russian and allied-country products and want a vendor guarantee, not just their own test results.

What exactly was confirmed

The published announcement contains a single result: the tests were passed and compatibility is confirmed. The available part of the material does not disclose how deep the testing went. It is unknown which scenarios were run, which product versions took part, and whether the pairing has any load limitations.

For products of this class, vendors usually check several things. First, how the NGFW passes traffic to the DLP for analysis, whether through mirroring or ICAP-like mechanisms. Second, how the system handles encrypted connections. Third, whether one side breaks the other's policies. Had the vendors published a test protocol, the answers to these questions would be in it. Until they do, any performance estimates would be guesswork.

Why these two classes of systems are paired

An NGFW sits at the network boundary. It filters traffic, identifies applications, enforces access policies, and blocks malicious activity. A DLP solves a different problem: it looks for confidential information in data flows and records who sent what, and where. The firewall sees that a user went online. The DLP sees exactly what that user sent.

In practice, these systems are therefore often deployed side by side. The firewall intercepts traffic and the DLP inspects it: email, web forms, messengers, uploads to cloud storage. If the integration is not properly tuned, typical problems appear: part of the traffic never reaches analysis, latency grows, and encrypted channels become a blind spot. The announced compatibility addresses precisely this kind of risk.

What is known about the pairing

• Participants: Falcongaze SecureTower (DLP) and Ideco NGFW Novum (next-generation firewall).
• Result: compatibility testing completed successfully.
• Initiators: both vendors; the announcement was published jointly.
• Publication date: 9 October 2026.
• Not disclosed: product versions, test methodology, load figures, integration method.

What this means in practice for customers

If you already use one of the products and are considering the other, confirmed compatibility shortens the pilot stage. Previously, such a pilot included verifying on your own that the firewall correctly hands off traffic and the DLP analyzes it. Now the vendors have done part of that work themselves.

There are limitations, too. Before deployment, ask both suppliers for a description of supported versions and connection schemes, especially if your network carries a lot of encrypted traffic. Check load separately: a DLP with deep content inspection is sensitive to traffic volume, and a compatibility statement is not a guarantee of performance on your link.

For the market, this is one more example of Russian and closely allied information security vendors building mutual integrations. Customers find it easier to buy ready-made bundles of two or three solutions than to assemble them by hand. How well this particular pairing works will become clear once the first deployment reviews and technical details from the vendors appear.