June 11, 2009

Clavister unveils Security Gateway 4300 Series

by David Masters
Clavister this week launched the 4300 Series of its Security Gateway service, designed to provide IT security for medium and large enterprises and data centres. The 4300 Series is a high performance hardware-based unified threat management service capable of handling a large number of connections with high-speed throughput. Features include a plaintext throughput of up to 7Gbps, built-in high speed VPN connectivity offering a VPN throughput of up to 2.5Gbps, anti-virus, anti-spam, ...


April 29, 2009

SmoothWall launches hardware version of Guardian web filter

by David Masters
UK-based SmoothWall this week launched Guardian Secure Web Gateway (GSWG), a new rack-mounted web filtering application. GSWG is a hardware version of SmoothWall's Guardian web filter software, and is the fourth hardware appliance launched by the company since 2007. The Guardian web filter uses intelligent content analysis, rather than a URL-based blocklist approach to block malicious websites and prevent employees from accessing personal email and social networking sites. SmoothWall product manager Tom Newton ...