Archive for February, 2008

Cisco releases new Firewalls, the ASA 5580

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 […]

ADLINK announces ALS-3206 rackmount Internet security platform

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 […]

Toronto Catholic District School Board Secures Web-Based Report Card System

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 […]

Bradford Networks Named Best Network Security Product Finalist By SC Magazine Europe

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 […]

Check Point enhances its UTM-1 appliances with zero-hour protection

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 […]