WatchGuard Technologies has announced next-generation firewall (NGFW) and unified threat management (UTM) appliances specifically engineered for mid-size and distributed enterprises, which are struggling to effectively and affordably secure networks in the face of explosive growth in bandwidth rates, connection speeds and encrypted traffic. The WatchGuard Firebox M400 and M500 appliances, based on the latest Intel Pentium and Intel Celeron Processors, are up to 61 per cent faster than competing solutions with all layers of the company's award- winning defense-in-depth solutions turned on, and up to149 per cent faster performing HTTPS inspection, ensuring enterprises never have to compromise network security for performance.
The recent industry reports focus on the rise of encrypted traffic and the importance of addressing threats within those encrypted streams. According to a Gartner report entitled “Security Leaders Must Address Threats from Rising SSL Traffic”: "With more and more encrypted traffic, this trend is likely to expand rapidly. Gartner believes that, in 2017, more than half of the network attacks targeting enterprises will use encrypted traffic to bypass controls, up from less than five per cent today. "
"The demands facing mid-size and distributed enterprise networks in India are the same as those faced by large enterprise networks just a few years ago. With the growth in encrypted traffic, combined with Internet traffic increasing at 21 per cent and connection speeds climbing at 42 per cent, businesses are demanding firewalls that can keep pace. Our customers do not want to be forced to choose between protecting their networks and ensuring their end-users have the performance needed to do their jobs and with our new Firebox solutions, they don't have to," said Scott Robertson, Vice-President APAC & Japan, WatchGuard Technologies.
The WatchGuard Firebox M400 and M500 also provide the flexibility of two SFP (small form-factor pluggable) ports that can feature either 1GB copper or 1GB fiber connections, ensuring that firewalls can adapt to end-user environments. SFP transceivers are available as optional accessories. Both models feature the WatchGuard Fireware OS, v.11.9.4. This software version includes new features to simplify deep inspection of HTTPS traffic, allowing users to include names instead of numbers in their policy definitions.
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