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Firewalls are a necessary security control for policy enforcement at any network trust boundary, but changing business and threat conditions are putting pressure on growth in the firewall market. Enterprises are redesigning their demilitarized zones (DMZs) to react to the business realities of how staff and customers connect, which drives firewall demand up.
However, the increasing requirement for network defense against more-complex threats has increased the deployment of network intrusion prevention, and driven vendors to provide products that support complex deployments and rule sets that mix traditional port/protocol firewall defense with deep-packet inspection intrusion prevention. Because firewall-only products are not effective against the new breed of threats, price pressure has increased on those offerings.
Virtualization has created the opportunity for new firewall platforms that enable many separate physical firewall appliances to be replaced with a single firewall switch, a blade server running multiple virtual firewalls or new virtual firewalls to be run within virtualized servers. This can increase the number of firewall units required and also increase pricing pressure — enterprises expect software licenses to decrease in virtualized environments. Firewall technology has also not kept up with the security needs of virtualization. Virtualization innovation has been mostly limited to the first level of virtualization support, a few products being VMware-certified, as with Astaro and Stonesoft.
Astaro Network Security A firewall provides the base security protection.
Astaro Network Security includes fully integrated features such as a configurable firewall paired with an Intrusion Protection system, Denial of Service, lots of traffic forwarding and NAT tools and much more. Take a deeper look at the extensive range of features provided by this security application. A good firewall can stop costly events that lead to data loss or theft, infected workstations, and other productivity-sapping incidents. Properly configured, a firewall can keep much of your operation protected. By peering into the network’s approved traffic, Astaro’s Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) can separate the good traffic from the hazardous traffic and keep your network safe from outside assaults. Internet connections are easily found and used maliciously by the most basic malware. Astaro’s Denial of Service prevention keeps your resources safe and undamaged during these attacks. Internet bandwidth often limits how fast networks can operate. Companies that make the most of their available bandwidth keep employee productivity high without having them experience excessive waits as they work. Linking remote sites with a main office lets users send and receive information via a secure connection. With the Astaro VPN, users can link hundreds of sites together without any experience setting up VPN networks. Travelers and field staff frequently find themselves outside work or their home office and in the need of a stable, secure connection that operates anywhere. Astaro’s SSL Remote Access solves this problem. For workers in the field, being able to access resources on the company network is often required to conduct business. Using a special client, users can access resources behind the Astaro device with absolute and security. Windows has integrated options for securely connecting a client to a remote end point. As user-friendly remote access technology, Astaro can act as a receiver for this feature to enable users to create tunnels quickly. Directory authentication interfaces with external databases and makes use of their users and groups in your security configuration. An easy way to let users connect their VPN access with their existing login. The Astaro UserPortal is a self-management hub where employees can work with their email messages and previously configured remote access technologies without the help of an Administrator.
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