VPN Index

Following closely on the heals of the release of the 4Gbps IPS appliance, Cisco released the ASA5580 Firewall. It comes in two models, a 5Gbps (ASA5580-20) and a 10 Gbps model (ASA5580-40).

Now those aren’t backplane speeds or pie in the sky, UDP 1500 byte packet throughput numbers with protection turned off either. Vendors marketing teams love to quote us numbers that are meaningless in the real world. The performance numbers Cisco is quoting are real world performance numbers based on a mix of various rich media traffic samples with recommended firewall protection features turned on.

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ADLINK Technology Inc. announces the ALS-3206 rackmount Internet security platform. The ALS-3206 represents their commitment to network security system integrators and network application software developers by designing a well-engineered network security platform which properly balances performance and cost. This product is positioned as a mid-range network security appliance, yet supports a wide range of expandability options for high-end performance.

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Juniper Networks, Inc., the leader in high-performance networking, today announced that the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) has selected its best-in-class, secure remote access solution to provide teachers and school administrators fast, reliable and secure access to a Web-based report card system from remote locations. By deploying the Juniper Networks Secure Access (SA) SSL VPN 6000 appliance, the school board was able to increase operational efficiencies without compromise to application or network performance.

Until recently, teachers accessed report cards through an application running on an internal server. With a finite number of school-based PCs, 5,500 teachers and nearly 400 school administrators accessing the system, the school board determined it needed to build a high-performance Web-based report card application that would provide teachers with secure remote access and the freedom to fill out report cards for more than 90,000 students at their convenience.

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Bradford Networks, a leading provider of comprehensive network access control (NAC) solutions, was named an SC Magazine Awards Europe Best Network Security finalist for Bradford’s NAC Director solution — an out-of-band, agent-based network access control appliance that leverages existing network assets to enforce NAC policy.

The SC Awards Europe salute solutions that meet the challenges in today’s business environment. It is widely considered the most prestigious awards program in the information security industry and stand out as a benchmark of achievement. In their 13th year, the awards have a long-standing tradition of promoting excellence.

The 2008 Awards presentation will be held on 22 April at the Hurlingham Club in London. For more information on the SC Awards Europe visit www.scmagazine.com/uk/awards.

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Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. has announced it has added messaging security and zero-hour protection to its UTM-1 appliances and VPN-1 UTM software that now brings protection against e-mail intrusion, spam and viruses to end users.

“We wanted to make sure we were not just releasing check box type functionality but took time to understand what the real needs were for messaging security and provide a solution,” said Paul Kaspian, project manager with Check Point.

Check Point’s messaging security platform in UTM-1 includes e-mail intrusion prevention technologies combined with multi-layered defense against spam and viruses. Anti-spam technologies include advanced pattern detection to detect image-based and foreign language spam, and IP-based reputation scoring to catch newly emerging attacks like PDF spam and MP3 spam. Kaspian said that the new platform blocks 97 per cent of all spam and there less than one in a million false positives. Additionally, Check Point messaging security also offers multi-layered anti-virus with both signature-based protection against known threats as well as zero-day protection to block attacks as they occur and before a signature is available.

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