Smoothwall launches two new hardware appliances
February 2012 by Emmanuelle Lamandé
Smoothwall has invested in the launch of two new hardware appliances - the SWG-3600 and UTM-3000.
Both have been developed for large organisations with network heavy traffic and are based on Dell’s PowerEdge server platform currently utilising twin 6-core Intel Xeon processors, 12GB RAM, a pair of 1TB RAID SATA disks and specialist high performance NICs.
The SWG-3600 includes dynamic web content analysis (every page filtered in real-time including encrypted HTTPS content) with ’who, what, when, where’ policy tools - enabling organisations to perfectly tune user web access to improve on-line productivity and reduce liabilities. With integrated anti-malware, control of anonymous proxies, instant messaging, social-networking, blogging, file-uploads, P2P sharing, video and Flash files, the SWG-3600 covers all the Web Security bases. The device also supports filtering for guest Wi-Fi, remote laptops & mobile devices and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) schemes. With detailed reporting and live traffic graphs it provides everything needed to protect users, networks and large organisations.
The UTM-3000 provides a fully featured firewall and network security package, integrated with Smoothwall’s Guardian Web Security dynamic content filtering which provides reliable protection from user web misuse and web vectored malware. The UTM-3000 includes a VPN Gateway can manage up to 1000 secure connections, WAN aggregation as standard, and optional Email Security with anti-malware, spam and phishing detection. The unit also features efficient load balancing for in-coming and out-going traffic across multiple internet connections with fail-over protocols and flexible Internet Access Control with User Authentication.