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Symantec Introduces Cost-Effective Integrated Security Appliance Designed
to Protect Enterprise Remote and Branch Offices
New Firewall Appliance Line Offers Customers Six Integrated Security
Functions, Scaleable Centralised Management And Secure Wireless Access
Point
Sydney, Australia – November 17, 2004 – Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ:
SYMC), the global leader in information security, today announced the Symantec
Gateway Security Appliance 400 Series. This comprehensive solution provides
firewall, intrusion prevention, intrusion detection, antivirus policy enforcement,
content filtering, virtual private networking (VPN) and gateway networking
functionality in a single, easy-to-use appliance designed for remote and
branch office sites. In addition, the Symantec Gateway Security 400 Series
can function as a standards-based, secure wireless LAN (WLAN) access point.
Symantec Gateway Security 400 Series appliances are a key component in
achieving information integrity by helping organisations better secure
their networks at remote and branch office sites.
With the Symantec Security Management System and the Symantec Event Manager
and Advanced Manager for Security Gateways plug-in, Symantec Gateway Security
400 Series appliances offer the appropriate tools to allow enterprise customers
to centrally manage hundreds or thousands of appliances via policy-based
management. The Symantec Event Manager enables centralised logging, alerting
and reporting. In addition, the Symantec Advanced Manager allows IT administrators
to define rule sets and manage security policies for hundreds or even thousands
of sites through a centralised console. A security manager at a central
management console can define multiple groups of 400 Series appliances
and, for each group, set a different security policy and configuration
that can be automatically applied to all the members of the group.
"
Medium and large enterprises typically have many remote or branch offices
that must attach to the enterprise network infrastructure to have real-time
connectivity to business applications and data," said Greg Gotta,
vice president, gateway and network security, Symantec Corp. "With
its all-in-one functionality, Symantec Gateway Security 400 Series allows
customers to save significant costs by using the Internet to transport
traffic from the remote and branch office sites to regional facilities
that serve as hubs for the enterprise private network."
Also available for all models is a wireless LAN access point add-on that
allows the Symantec Gateway Security 400 Series to function as a standards-based
wireless LAN access point. Customers are able to establish highly secure
IPsec VPN tunnels from the wireless clients to the gateway. With one of
the biggest barriers to the adoption of WLAN technology being security,
Symantec now provides customers an effective solution for deploying WLAN
technology. Since any device within range can access clients on a WLAN,
it is important to allow traffic only from authorised users. The WLAN option
on the Symantec Gateway Security 400 Series can be used with IEEE 802.11g
and IEEE 802.11b wireless clients.
Key Product Features
Symantec Gateway Security 400 Series is a security solution that provides
comprehensive protection by combining essential security and networking
functions:
Six Integrated Security Functions - Includes stateful inspection firewall
to analyse information packets and their destinations; intrusion detection
to provide comprehensive attack detection, logging and reporting; intrusion
prevention to offer customers the ability to block packets that are identified
as malicious; antivirus policy enforcement to automatically monitor and
ensure that Symantec supported antivirus clients are up-to-date and active
on workstations attempting to pass data through the gateway; content filtering
to improve productivity and reduce wasted bandwidth by restricting access
to unwanted Internet sites; IPsec compliant VPN with hardware assisted
encryption to provide secure gateway-to-gateway, client-to-gateway and
WLAN-to-gateway tunnels.
Scalable, Centralised Management - Each Symantec Gateway Security 400 Series
appliance comes pre-loaded and licensed for Symantec Event Manager and
Advanced Manager for Security Gateways and SSL Certificates so that a central
management console can manage hundreds or thousands of appliances.
Wireless LAN Access Point - An optional hardware add-on is available for
all models to allow the gateway security appliance to also function as
a standards-based Wireless LAN Access Point, permitting highly secure IPsec
VPN tunnels from the wireless clients to the gateway.
Easy-to-Use Networking - The built-in 10/100 Mbps Auto-Sense network switch
provides local Ethernet LAN switching for numerous devices that need to
share the gateway connection to the external network.
LiveUpdate - Symantec's exclusive LiveUpdate technology ensures that Symantec
Gateway Security 400 Series appliances are easily kept up-to-date with
the latest firmware updates.
High Availability/Bandwidth Aggregation/Load Balancing - The automatic
dial backup feature included on all models (external modem required) ensures
Internet connectivity in the event that the primary broadband connection(s)
goes down. Also included on the 460/460R models, dual WAN ports can simultaneously
send traffic to and from the Internet, with bandwidth aggregation effectively
doubling Internet throughput. Each WAN port can be connected to different
service providers even if they each use different technologies (e.g., DSL,
Cable Modem). In the event that a service provider's link fails, all traffic
and gateway VPN tunnels automatically switch over to the working port.
The Symantec Gateway Security 400 Series consists of multi-function firewall
appliances that provide manageable security for remote and branch offices
of medium to large enterprises. Designed for ease-of-use, these appliances
require little technical expertise to install and operate, but offer advanced
security capabilities to handle remote and branch office needs. Customers
can also gain cost savings by utilising the included VPN feature to create
secure connections, rather than using expensive leased lines.
Licensing and Availability
In order to accommodate varying performance needs and port configurations,
the Symantec Gateway Security Appliance 400 Series will be offered in four
different models (420, 440, 460 and 460R). Customers will receive 90-days
of telephone support, one year of hardware warranty and firmware updates
via LiveUpdate.
In an effort to reduce deployment overhead and allow scalable, centralised
management out of the box, the base price of each Symantec Gateway Security
400 Series appliance includes an incremental one system license that allows
management by the Symantec Event Manager and Advanced Manager for Security
Gateways.
Symantec Gateway Security 400 Series is available through Symantec's worldwide
network of value-added resellers, distributors and systems integrators.
The Symantec Event Manager and Advanced Manager for Security Gateways media
kit is also now available. Organisations seeking a reseller or distributor
should contact Symantec at http://locator.symantec.com/.
About Symantec
Symantec is the global leader in information security providing a broad
range of software, appliances and services designed to help individuals,
small and mid-sized businesses, and large enterprises secure and manage
their IT infrastructure. Symantec's Norton brand of products is the worldwide
leader in consumer security and problem-solving solutions. Headquartered
in Cupertino, Calif., Symantec has operations in more than 35 countries.
More information is available at www.symantec.com.
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