A high-speed content inspection apparatus for minimizing system overhead is provided. The high-speed content inspection apparatus extracts content in unit of sub-pattern by inspecting a payload of a packet in units of sub-pattern, and extract target content by inspecting a correlation between the extracted sub-patterns. If a sub-pattern present at the end of a payload is smaller than a predetermined unit of a sub-pattern, position information of the sub-pattern at the end of the payload is rolled back and the correlation is inspected. Accordingly, without having to add another hardware or high-performance hardware, target content can be efficiently detected in real time.