Network Security

Pro 5060f (Group Test: Enterprise Firewalls)

Company: SonicWALL
Pricing: $13,790

Better known for its smaller appliances, SonicWall has pushed into the enterprise market with its Pro 5060f. Running SonicOS Enhanced 3.1, the 1U appliance houses a 2.4GHz Intel Xeon processor, 512MB of RAM and six Gigabit Ethernet interfaces. The 'f' in our model signifies that two of these ports are ...

 

Nokia IP380 (Firewalls group test)

Company: Nokia
Pricing: $10,995 (Check Point software sold separately)
The Nokia IP380 is equipped with a Pentium III 866 Mhz processor with 256 MB RAM in a well-designed, 1U, rack-mountable unit.
 

Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2004 Enterprise Edition (Group Test: Enterprise Firewalls)

Company: Microsoft
Pricing: $5,999 per processor

Microsoft's Internet Security & Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004, is the company's application for turning a Windows 2000 or 2003 server into an enterprise firewall. Installation was painless on our test Windows 2003 server.

 

FortiGate 3600 (Appliance group test)

Company: Fortinet, Inc.
Pricing: $29,995

Fortinet offers a range of what it calls 'anti-virus firewalls' for all markets, from the home user to the large enterprise and carrier-class service provider.

 

CyberGuard SL2000 (Firewall group test)

Company: CyberGuard Corporation
Pricing: $64,995

CyberGuard has a long and impressive track record in the firewall market, providing solutions from the desktop to those suitable for the high end, such as data centers. The SL2000 is positioned at the high end and, while certainly not the cheapest firewall in this Group Test, is worth every ...

 

Stonesoft StoneGate SG-3000 VPN/Firewall (Firewalls group test)

Company: Stonesoft Corporation
Pricing: $38,000
This product offers no less than ten 10/100/1000TX, auto-sensing network interfaces, backed up by twin Intel Xeon processors.
 

Gordano Messaging Suite (Email Security group test)

Company: Gordano Ltd.
Pricing: $3,995

Gordano is a company that has made the messaging arena its own. Its NTMail product was a revolution when it was first launched in 1994, and it was recently re-branded and overhauled to become Gordano Messaging Suite (GMS).

Installation is simple and straightforward, and Gordano has also ensured that the ...

 

Astaro Security Linux (Firewall group test)

Company: Astaro Corporation.
Pricing: $1,495 (100 IPs or nodes)

We looked at version 3.0 of this product in the virtual private network Group Test last year, and it is good to see it being evaluated as a firewall this time around. Astaro might not be a familiar name to most people, but it deserves to be if it continues ...

 

Symantec Gateway Security Appliance

Company: Symantec Corporation
Pricing: $51,990

In the Gateway Security product, Symantec has come up with a range of gateway appliances, each of which combines firewall, anti-virus, virtual private network (VPN), content filtering and intrusion detection in one rack-mounted system that is 1U high.

 

InstaGate PRO Firewall and VPN appliance (Appliances 2004)

Company: Esoft
Pricing: $3,670

The InstaGate PRO Firewall and VPN appliance is designed to support between 100 and 1,000 users and can be configured with a selection of modular add-ons, which eSoft calls SoftPaks.