Firewall

A Firewall has traditionally been the first line of defence at the point where your private network meets the Internet. With the additional requirement of accessing the centralised network from external trusted locations, the VPN (Virtual Private Network) functionality was added.

Today, the increased growth of business applications moving to external software as a service (cloud computing) and away from the internal data centre has quickly redefined the ‘trust boundary’. The average user is no longer someone who just accesses centralised services from his PC through the  LAN or via a VPN, the web has become an integral business tool. Web applications have become more complex. The next generation of firewall/VPN needs to deliver the capability to detect and block sophisticated attacks as well as enforce a more granular security policy.  This has led to deep inspection intrusion prevention system features being added to inspect connections allowed through a firewall.

X.COMM has partnered with two of the worlds leading Firewall vendors according to Gartner.

The Juniper Networks appliances are powerful, easy to deploy and blisteringly fast. They range from sub £500 units for home workers, micro branches and retail outlets through to multi-gigabit systems for the most demanding core network environments.

Palo Alto Networks offers real innovation in the firewall by enabling unprecedented visibility and control of applications and content – by user, not just IP address – at up to 10Gbps with no performance degradation. Based on patent-pending App-ID™ technology, their next generation firewalls accurately identify applications – regardless of port, protocol, evasive tactic or SSL encryption – and scan content to stop threats and prevent data leakage. Enterprises can for the first time embrace Web 2.0 and maintain complete visibility and control, while significantly reducing total cost of ownership through device consolidation.