BORDERWARE NETWORK SECURITY

Organizations require perimeter network security to protect an internal network from unauthorized access by users on the external network, while giving internal users the benefit of full access to the Internet. By having in-depth knowledge of the application processes and protocols to be used, a network security firewall examines, controls, audits and validates all network traffic to and from a trusted network.

Virtual Private Network (VPN) capabilities allow firewall-to-firewall encrypted communications to secure a network over the Internet and support remote users accessing a network with authenticated and encrypted connections.

BorderWare SteelGate is a high-performance VPN firewall appliance that offers robust network security controls and VPN services. It controls inbound and outbound traffic using both application-level and stateful inspection of traffic and also provides centralized administrative control over the entire perimeter, with the ability to manage multiple devices from a single location. Device management is performed via a secure GUI that was designed for use by both technical and non-technical users.

Stateful inspection firewalls monitor the state of individual sessions, and are optimized to deliver high performance in high traffic environments. Application proxies enhance perimeter security by proxying traffic on behalf on each connection endpoint. Application proxies essentially isolate the client and server, and inspect traffic at the application layer to determine if the traffic being evaluated is in fact valid HTTP, FTP, or other traffic. BorderWare SteelGate provides both stateful packet inspection and an application proxy capability, to deliver optimal security and performance.

In addition to protecting the network perimeter, BorderWare SteelGate acts as a VPN server for client-server and server-server VPN. The client VPN uses the Sentinel client software on workstation to securely connect remote users to the corporate network. Policies can be managed centrally, and a personal firewall is incorporated into the product to protect the remote client from being compromised while outside the corporate network. Both client-server and server-server VPN sessions can be secured with granular access controls. Two-factor authentication with hardware tokens and digital certificates is supported.