“Threats continue to advance, and network security defences must evolve to become effective against advanced targeted threats. Enterprises should require vendors to add next-generation intrusion prevention features to network security products,” said Greg Young, Research Vice President, Gartner1. “Mainstream enterprises over time will refresh existing next-generation firewall deployments with future versions with next-generation network IPS capabilities.”

Applying its Agile Security™ vision to the emerging NGFW market, Sourcefire is delivering a context-aware and adaptive NGFW solution to offer its customers superior network protection and control without compromise. The Sourcefire Next-Generation Firewall provides this increased protection by combining the ability to identify and provide granular control for more than 1,000 applications with unprecedented visibility, intelligent automation and industry-best threat prevention effectiveness. These capabilities are all backed by the elite Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team (VRT™) and the company’s collective security intelligence.

Universal Network Security Platform

Sourcefire leverages a single-pass engine that delivers deep inspection while maintaining peak performance. The FirePOWER platform can be configured at the customer’s discretion as an NGIPS, an NGIPS with application control or an NGFW, providing the customer ultimate flexibility to deploy appliances to match their infrastructure needs and scale over time.

Total Visibility

Using its patented FireSIGHT™ technology, Sourcefire delivers increased visibility into applications, users, content, hosts, attacks, vulnerabilities, behaviour and changes in a user’s environment. It then correlates this information with user identity and reputation intelligence to assess risks and threat impact to make more precise enforcement decisions.

Intelligent Automation

Unlike existing solutions, the Sourcefire Next-Generation Firewall employs intelligent security automation to increase the agility of protection efforts that can keep pace with constantly changing environments. This is accomplished by the Sourcefire NGFW through comprehensive contextual awareness and collective threat intelligence that result in more meaningful policy recommendations and automated adjustments to a customer’s defence in real time. It also allows security teams to optimize remediation efforts by reducing actionable alerts and filtering out events that do not affect the particular user’s environment.

Control Without Compromise

Sourcefire NGFW provides control without compromising threat prevention. Based on independent testing, the solution delivers best-of-class throughput performance and advanced threat detection with unsurpassed blocking effectiveness. As with other Sourcefire solutions, the NGFW allows users to tailor and customize defences and policies to their specific environment.

“As enterprises seek to increase their protection efforts they are looking for solutions that offer the agility to be effective in the face of modern threats,” said Martin Roesch, Chief Technology Officer at Sourcefire. “Other NGFW solutions force customers to make tradeoffs between control, prevention, performance and manageability. The Sourcefire Next-Generation Firewall includes our industry-leading NGIPS and provides the user the power and confidence to prevent and respond to complex threats with the granular control required today.”

For more information on the Sourcefire Next-Generation Firewall, register for one of three webinars:

• Tuesday, December 13 at 9 a.m. EST / 2 p.m. GMT
https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/333138022
• Tuesday, December 13 at 2 p.m. EST / 11a.m. PST
https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/836015638
• Wednesday, December 14 at 10 a.m. Singapore / 11 a.m. Tokyo / 1 p.m. Sydney
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Product information is also available at http://sourcefire.com/ngfw.

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Easynet Connect Managed Firewalls is part of the award-winning FortiGate product series and is available as an added value service to fully manage a business’s network security. Easynet Connect’s Managed Firewalls start at the very competitive price of £350 for set-up and £500 per year. By acting as a filtering service, the new firewalls help protect against day-to-day threats like spam, but also defend against serious attacks like viruses and Trojans.

Easynet Connect’s Managed Firewalls are monitored and supported by Easynet Connect’s own dedicated 24/7 support team. By offering a fully managed service, Easynet Connect lets businesses bypass the hassle and cost of monitoring their own in-house equipment, giving them extra capacity to focus on their core activities as well as ensuring equipment and settings are up to date.

Unlike most other ISPs, Easynet Connect’s Managed Firewalls are available to customers at a flat rate, so there is no extra charge for each user added to the service. They are also flexible, with a wide range of options to suit individual bandwidth requirements, making it even easier for businesses to adapt the service to suit their needs.

Easynet Connect’s managing director, Chris Stening, explains, “Over 73% of SMEs were victims of cyber attacks last year1 and on average spam makes up around 89% of all emails passing through business networks2. We recognise that businesses have to protect themselves against constant web threats but don’t necessarily have the time to do so. By offering managed firewalls, firms can be safe in the knowledge that web-filtering, spam and viruses are all taken care of and that the security is robust enough to prevent costly network downtime – the ultimate business nightmare.”

“Businesses need to be proactive and not just reactive with regards to their network security and because Managed Firewalls are available to any small to medium sized company, businesses don’t even need to be an Easynet customer to reap the benefits. Firewalls can be a key element in providing business continuity and reliable connectivity and companies shouldn’t wait for web based attacks to devastate their systems before they act.”

For more information visit http://www.easynetconnect.net/products/managed-firewall.aspx

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Organisations are using a wider array of Internet-based, consumer-oriented applications for cultural reasons, or to improve efficiency, foster customer intimacy, or speed up business processes. Security technologies, unfortunately, have retained an outmoded “block or allow” model, lacking the granularity and intelligence to recognise and appropriately control these new applications. According to Gartner, Inc., “Through 2012, enterprises that take a ‘block or ignore’ stance toward employee use of consumer IT will incur security incident costs two to four times those of enterprises that use ‘embrace or contain’ strategies…Security companies selling products that take simple block-all approaches will need to develop capabilities that support more-granular security controls.”

PAN-OS 3.0 introduces traffic shaping in the firewall, enabling enterprises to ensure that priority is given to business critical functions. Palo Alto Networks’ application visibility and fine-grained control capabilities are unique in the industry in offering organisations the widest array of flexible policy responses to applications – including allow, deny, allow for certain users or functions, threat scanning, and now – shape. Administrators are able to manage the bandwidth consumed by applications, as well as their priority – all in firewall policy, instead of simply killing applications or having no visibility or control over them. According to the latest Application Usage and Risk Report (April, 2009), in the sample of actual application traffic from more than 900,000 users, more than half of the bandwidth was being consumed by 28 percent of the applications, most of which were consumer oriented.

Tony Whelton, director of IT development and services at Wellington College, which recently installed Palo Alto Networks’ next generation firewalls, welcomes the introduction of PAN OS 3.0. “Our decision to choose Palo Alto Networks was based upon a number of criteria, primarily its proven ability to address the challenges of identifying and controlling a new breed of social-centric, evasive and encrypted applications. The new features included in its latest software release will enable much more granular application delivery and control options as well as the ability to extend full visibility and control to encompass distributed users. These are key business challenges that Palo Alto Networks are addressing here. ”

Rapidly responding to customer requirements, PAN-OS 3.0 also adds SSL VPN functionality, which employs the easy-to-use secure network extension model but extends the company’s full complement of industry-leading visibility and control over users, applications, and content. Previously, enterprises have had to choose between an open VPN approach that was simple and cost-effective, or a high-control extranet portal approach that was expensive and complex.

Adding these computing-intensive features while retaining enterprise-grade performance is made possible only through Palo Alto Networks’ single pass parallel processing (SP3) architecture – which couples a single-pass packet path with specialised, function-specific hardware processing. The QoS features in PAN-OS 3.0 enable organisations to shape and prioritise traffic based on application with multi-gigabit throughput, due to the single pass software married to hardware accelerated queuing. Similarly, the new SSL VPN capabilities in PAN-OS 3.0 enjoy the benefits of application visibility and control, coupled with specific SSL hardware acceleration.

“Applications aren’t threats, but they do carry risk,” said Chris King, Palo Alto Networks director of product marketing. “As a firewall, Palo Alto Networks uses a positive security model which offers organisations the flexibility they need to embrace new applications, and yet still manage risk – going beyond the outdated ‘find it and kill it’ model that many other security technologies are based on.”

For more information, please visit www.paloaltonetworks.com.

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