Secure Computing has unveiled SnapGear with TrustedSource, a newly enhanced version of its award-winning all-in-one Internet appliance for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and remote offices.
A complete plug-and-play network-in-a-box Internet security appliance, the new version of SnapGear marks the third Secure Computing product integration with TrustedSource, the company’s global reputation system, and also delivers enhanced VoIP capabilities, VPN offloading, connection tracking snapshots, increased performance, and the ability to deliver customized local-language versions. Many of these new features are directly aimed at reducing the costs associated with growing and securing SMB networks.
As part of Secure Computing's vision to provide comprehensive gateway security, SnapGear now incorporates global intelligence from the company's industry-leading reputation system, TrustedSource.
Just like how a credit agency provides credit scores to enable reliable commerce, TrustedSource provides behavior-based reputation scores for IPs, domains, URLs and email messages.
Using this real-time scoring, SnapGear with TrustedSource allows organizations to drop connections from malicious sources at the gateway to help prevent security threats such as spam and phishing, reclaim bandwidth and reduce downstream server processing.
Apparently, many companies find that these dropped connections lead to significant savings in administrative costs, server upgrade costs and additional bandwidth costs.
“By adding TrustedSource to SnapGear's UTM appliance, Secure Computing offers SMBs the same reputation-based anti-spam solution available to much larger enterprises,” said Charles Kolodgy, Research Director at IDC.
“Reputation-based filtering reduces malicious traffic, but it can also reduce unwanted traffic from non-business sources. Taken together, these two elements can reduce attacks and messaging volumes resulting in greater bandwidth availability and greater employee productivity.”
In addition to the integration of the TrustedSource reputation technology, the new version of the SnapGear appliance includes significant enhancements to performance, management and overall security, including Quality of Service Enhancements, VPN Offloading, Performance, Connection Tracking Capabilities and Internalization.
"Adding TrustedSource to the SnapGear appliance makes it the first reputation-based offering available to the SMB market,”
“Typically, SMBs are not in a position to employ enterprise-level solutions due to cost and complexity. Now, SMBs can leverage a time-tested solution built with the requirements of the largest enterprises with the most stringent security policies in mind,” said Benjamin Low, managing director for Southeast Asia and India, Secure Computing.
“SnapGear is the first low-cost solution to make next generation, reputation-based systems available to a broader audience beyond just the Fortune 1000.”
SnapGear is the only networking device needed for office PCs to be networked with one another, connect securely to the Internet, connect to the corporate LAN, and service all remote access VPN needs. SnapGear handles it all easily and inexpensively by converging all networking, firewall, intrusion prevention, and remote access requirements into one high-speed, highly reliable appliance.
The SnapGear appliance line is available immediately through Secure Computing channel partners and OEMs worldwide. |
