McAfee Sidewinder, A next-generation firewall with multilayer security
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By Super Admin
Published on 28/08/2008
Used by the largest global corporations and government agencies in the world, the McAfee Sidewinder network firewall appliance goes way beyond UTM allowing you to run all of your security functions from one box lowering your costs of maintenance and the number of vendor relationships. McAfee Sidewinder has an umblemished record and has never been hacked.
Firewalls are a company’s first line of defence against security threats and critical to every organisation’s network protection strategy.
But threats to the enterprise are becoming more dangerous and unpredictable every day, with new application-layer attacks, Web 2.0 vulnerabilities, and signature-evading malware.
To proactively defend against the ever-changing threat landscape, you need to be able to simply and confidently implement the firewall changes your business needs. In other words, you need a new firewall solution—McAfee® Firewall Enterprise (Sidewinder®).
With McAfee Firewall Enterprise and its related products, administrators can immediately begin to put firewall rules in the proper business context and take advantage of centralized firewall management, reporting, and user-friendly rule creation capabilities.
Additionally, Firewall Enterprise offers unprecedented levels of threat protection. Advanced capabilities such as reputation-based global threat intelligence, configurable application-level protection, encrypted traffic inspection, anti-virus, content filtering, and intrusion-prevention block attacks before they occur.
But threats to the enterprise are becoming more dangerous and unpredictable every day, with new application-layer attacks, Web 2.0 vulnerabilities, and signature-evading malware.
Exploding cost of management
Managing multiple aging firewalls is a time- and resource-intensive task, to say the least. This is to say nothing of more frequent mandates to demonstrate compliance with audit and regulatory requirements—another tedious task that is made all the more costly and laborious if you lack useful reporting tools.To proactively defend against the ever-changing threat landscape, you need to be able to simply and confidently implement the firewall changes your business needs. In other words, you need a new firewall solution—McAfee® Firewall Enterprise (Sidewinder®).
McAfee Firewall Enterprise Overview
With McAfee Firewall Enterprise and its related products, administrators can immediately begin to put firewall rules in the proper business context and take advantage of centralized firewall management, reporting, and user-friendly rule creation capabilities.Additionally, Firewall Enterprise offers unprecedented levels of threat protection. Advanced capabilities such as reputation-based global threat intelligence, configurable application-level protection, encrypted traffic inspection, anti-virus, content filtering, and intrusion-prevention block attacks before they occur.