Broadband access solution provider ZyXel Communications has announced the availability of its new ZyWall 1050 Internet security appliance in India.
The company says that ZyWall 1050 incorporates robust security features strongly demanded by SMBs and mid-large organizations and integrates high performance VPN, User-Aware policy engine, proactive network protection, VoIP security, and high availability in a box.
Milind Kamat, principal consultant?India, ZyXel Communications Corp., said, "ZyWall 1050 allows organizations to establish Virtual Private Network (VPN) connections among multiple locations. Data is encrypted in a VPN to secure communication channels and prevent confidential information from being eavesdropped over the Internet."
"Communication through VPN tunnels is protected from session hijack attacks and information theft. These security features are integrated in the ZyWall 1050 to provide seamless data protection before transmission to a trusted network over the VPN. The Hub and Spoke VPN feature dramatically reduces management overhead and complexity in a complex, multi-site corporate network infrastructure," he added.
According to the company, in addition to basic access control capabilities, the intelligent user-aware policy engine on the ZyWall 1050 is designed to make packet-forwarding decisions based on multiple criteria (such as user ID, user group, time of access and network quota, etc.). Also, IT administrators can apply access policies to other security features such as VPN, content filtering and application patrol. In conjunction with network partitioning, corporate security policies can be effectively enforced to prevent unauthorized access to network or network resources.
With the embedded signature-based IDP (Intrusion Detection and Prevention) engine, the ZyWall 1050 performs L7 packet inspection for protocol anomaly or matched patterns. It supports L3 virtualization techniques (VLAN and virtual/alias interface). IT administrators can set VLAN or virtual interface to different physical ports as needed.
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