Firewall

Proven Perimeter Protection

Threats to today's networks continue to grow, with attacks coming from both external and internal sources.These threats can have devastating effects, ranging from business disruption due to a network outage, financial risk resulting from information loss, or liability issues stemming from information tampering.

What is a Firewall?

A firewall enables businesses to securely deploy mission-critical applications and networks in a highly reliable manner, and protect their networks from unauthorised access. Firewalls also enable businesses to securely extend their networks across low-cost Internet connections to business partners, remote sites, and mobile workers via Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology.

What are the benefits of a Firewall?

Our Firewall solutions are based on and around Cisco Security Appliances and protect and monitor your network and applications. Our Firewall solution affords the following benefits to your organisation:

• Controlled access to corporate resources
• Prevention of unauthorised access to applications or information
• Integration with user authentication mechanisms
• Secure deployment of new applications
• Hides corporate network addresses from the Internet for an additional layer of protection from attack
• Secure remote access to corporate network
• Failover and hardware redundancy to ensure maximum availability
• Enterprise grade Intrusion Detection and Prevention
• Content Filtering mechanisms