Symantec Enterprise Firewall with VPN

Symantec Enterprise Firewall protects enterprise assets and business transactions by ensuring fast and secure connections with the Internet and between networks. As a comprehensive hybrid firewall, it enables fast, controlled connectivity, providing strong and transparent protection against unwanted intrusion without slowing the flow of approved traffic. Through its optional, standards-based Symantec Enterprise VPN it can also provide low-cost, high-speed connectivity between offices and for mobile workers. Designed to support businesses with highly sophisticated networks as well as those just requiring basic email and Web browsing, Symantec Enterprise Firewall is an essential security component for today's electronically connected world.

Because of its unique hybrid architecture, Symantec Enterprise Firewall minimizes vulnerabilities and delivers full-featured security, ensuring complete control of information entering and leaving the enterprise while providing partners and customers with secure, unfettered access to corporate resources. Its support for a broad selection of user authentication methods such as Defender, Radius, Digital Certificates, LDAP, and NT domain authentication, gives administrators the flexibility to use existing security databases in the users' environment. And to enable the system uptime and scalable throughput required for today's network transactions, Symantec Enterprise Firewall offers a choice of hardware- or software-based high-availability and load balancing solutions as well as integrated Web content filtering.

Developed for Windows and Solaris, Symantec Enterprise Firewall offers an intuitive interface and a range of tools that make it easy to configure, manage, and maintain. From a central console, administrators can manage security policies for both local and remote firewalls and obtain a variety of security logs and management reports. Symantec Enterprise Firewall meets today's most stringent security, interoperability, and industry certification requirements.

Symantec Enterprise VPN allows organizations to securely extend networks beyond the firewall by providing server-side ProxySecured VPN scanning and client-side personal firewall protection via the Symantec Enterprise VPN client. A completely integrated and standards-based hybrid firewall/VPN, it enables secure, high-speed connectivity with the Internet and allows organizations to establish low-cost connections, enabling new forms of business and fast and secure access to information for mobile workers, authorized partners, customers, and remote offices. Designed to support businesses with highly sophisticated networks as well as those just requiring basic email and Web browsing, Symantec Enterprise VPN is an essential security component for today's electronically connected world. It is the only VPN server to utilize ProxySecured scanning of all IPSec connections to monitor inbound and outbound traffic. This unique technology enables administrators to better control traffic by ensuring that they are aware of traffic at the application level, not just the network level. And to enhance security on the client side and prevent IP-based network attacks, its integrated personal firewall provides configurable, automated port blocking and other ongoing system-hardening capabilities that protect networks at all possible points-of-entry.

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