Cyberoam Security’s Options For Emerging Threats

By Alan Harten

Cyberoam, which is part of Elitecore Technologies, and is a provider of Identity-based Unified Threat Management appliances, has announced the launch of the latest version of its Cyberoam firmware.

Cyberoam’s partnerships include OEM alliances with vendors like Kaspersky Lab, CommTouch, and The GreenBow.

Cyberoam Central Console enables enforcement of global policies for firewall, intrusion prevention system and anti-virus scanning.

This supports the creation and implementation of an enterprise-wide security policy to strengthen branch and remote office security, while lowering operational complexity.

The Cyberoam Central Console enables administrators to assign security policies based on a user’s work profile, even in remote locations.

This leverages Cyberoam’s unique user identity-based security approach.

With the current enhancements, Cyberoam can offer greater control over user surfing through HTTPS URL filtering and increase in the web database categories to reflect emerging surfing trends.

Further, it prevents data leakage and meets regulatory compliance requirements through reporting of HTTP uploads, detection of phone home spyware and multiple syslog server support.

Cyberoam’s HTTPS URL Filtering blocks web-based proxies and malicious websites hosted over SSL by categorising the domain names in its site database.

Cyberoam Central Console imparts MSSPs the ability to implement a broad security policy across multiple clients, which simplifies operations while maintaining high security levels across client networks.

Cyberoam enables businesses and educational institutions to block access to unauthorised websites hosted over SSL, protecting them from the risk of failing regulatory compliance, data leakage, spread of malicious content and unproductive downloads through web-based proxy sites and applications.

Web usage trends show a significant rise in traffic to radio and TV content online in addition to download of software and other utilities for mobile phones.

Cyberoam’s Content Filtering has now added new URL categories, making it one of the most comprehensive category databases with 82+ categories to control access to emerging unproductive sites.

This offers greater granular control to businesses, allowing them to control user access to newly added categories like ‘AudioSearch’ that blocks audio search, ‘Internet/Radio/TV’ that blocks websites which broadcast TV or Radio communication over the Internet, ‘MobileEntertainment’ that blocks download of software and other utilities for mobile phones, and many others.

Unchecked HTTP uploads by employees significantly contributes to data loss incidents that have reached 150 million since 2005.

The system offers:

real-time visibility of threat summary and trends;

nstant enforcement of security policies in response to zero hour threats;

reduced operational complexity and deployment time;

ease of use with view of multiple devices and network status at a glance.

In addition to its existing ability to block upload of documents over HTTP, Cyberoam now reports filenames uploaded via webmail attachments or to storage sites.

In doing so, it offers enhanced protection to businesses against data loss and leakage.

Another enhancement is the detection and prevention of phone home spyware by Cyberoam IPS, preventing spyware in the network from sending out sensitive data.

It also gives details of the infected PC with user and the spyware application name, allowing businesses to take instant corrective action.

Cyberoam is used in 55 countries and is the recipient of 5 star rating from SC Magazine.

About Cyberoam
Cyberoam identity-based UTM appliances offer protection against existing and emerging Internet threats, including viruses, worms, Trojans, spyware, phishing, pharming and more.

Cyberoam delivers a range of security features such as stateful inspection firewall, VPN, gateway anti-virus, gateway anti-malware, gateway anti-spam, intrusion prevention system, content filtering in addition to bandwidth management and multiple link management over a single platform.

Cyberoam is certified by the West Coast Labs with CheckMark UTM Level 5 Certification, ICSA Lab, an independent division of Verizon Business, and the Virtual Private Network Consortium.

About Elitecore Technologies
Elitecore Technologies Limited is the global provider of Cyberoam UTM appliances.

Elitecore’s other divisions include Crestel Convergent Billing Solution that meets the voice, data, video billing and customer care requirements of Tier-1 service providers and 24online billing and bandwidth management solution for hotels, hotspots and Internet service providers.

Elitecore has a R&D base and Global Support Management Centre in Ahmedabad. India.

It also has 400+ employees, and has offices in Boston, USA.