Archive for the 'Firewall' Category

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 […]

Fortinet’s FortiClient Earns Eighth Virus Bulletin 100% Award

Fortinet® — a pioneer and leading provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions — today announced that its FortiClient(TM) end-point security software has earned its eighth Virus Bulletin 100% (VB100) award for its robust antivirus capabilities. In this test for antivirus products running on Microsoft Windows Server 2003, FortiClient earned 100 percent marks in every […]

New Netgear firewall from Duxbury Networking

A new Netgear firewall product has been launched by local distributor, Duxbury Networking. Dubbed the ProSafe Dual WAN Gigabit SSL VPN Firewall, it is targeted at small and medium size businesses (SMEs) looking to improve network security while providing reliable remote access to branch offices or telecommuters.
A key feature of the new firewall is its […]

Cisco Ups the Security Appliance Ante

Late last month, Cisco Systems Inc. announced its highest-performance security appliance offering to date, the new ASA 5580 Series.The ASA 5580 is a high-performance security platform that Cisco says is suitable for use as either a scalable firewall (with up to 20 Gbps of overall throughput) or as a 10,000-user remote-access concentrator for secure sockets […]