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• SSL Traffic Causes Next Generation Firewall Performance Problems

  view articleeSecurityPlanet.com

  ...transactions per second (TPS) also descreased significantly, according to NSS Labs -- an average of approximately 86.8 percent with 512b ciphers, 87.79 with 1204b, and 92.28 percent with 2048b. Among vendors, Sourcefire had the highest rated TPS performance, Dell SonicWALL had the highest TPS performance with onboard SSL decryption, and Juniper had the least impact to throughput performance. While SSL traffic currently comprises approximately 25-35 percent of a typical enterprise's network traffic,...

  2013-06-18 / ID: MC-20614

• Rising SSL traffic to degrade firewall performance

  view articleCSO - Online

  ...such as Google, Facebook and Twitter. This trend is expected to continue among many other sites, driving the traffic increase in general. The firewalls used in the study were from Juniper Networks, Stonesoft, Palo Alto Networks, Sourcefire, Check Point, Dell SonicWall and Fortinet. Last month, Intel-owned McAfee announced plans to acquire Stonesoft for $389 million in cash.

  2013-06-17 / ID: MC-20457

• Best Security Tools for Small Business

  view articleCIO Magazine

  ...anti-virus/anti-spam, VPN and outbound content filtering to prevent phishing and browser-based attacks. UTMs offer easy setup and they can support a 25-person small business for an average of around $1,500. We tested eight devices: Check Point Software's 640, Dell/Sonicwall's NSA250MW, Elitecore Technologies' Cyberoam CR35iNG, Fortinet's FortiGate 100-D, Juniper Networks' SSRX220H-POE, Kerio Technologies' Control 1100, Sophos/Astaro's UTM 220, and Watchguard Technolgies' XTM33

  2013-06-17 / ID: MC-20469

• Rising SSL traffic to degrade firewall performance

  view articleLinuxWorld

  ...such as Google, Facebook and Twitter. This trend is expected to continue among many other sites, driving the traffic increase in general. The firewalls used in the study were from Juniper Networks, Stonesoft, Palo Alto Networks, Sourcefire, Check Point, Dell SonicWall and Fortinet. Last month, Intel-owned McAfee announced plans to acquire Stonesoft for $389 million in cash.

  2013-06-17 / ID: MC-20470

• SDN対応もバッチリ！デルの40GbE対応スイッチ

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  6月11日、デルはOpenFlow対応のファブリックソリューション「Dell Active Fabric」と管理ソフトウェア「Dell Active Fabric Manager」、データセンター向けLAN/SAN統合スイッチ「Dell Networking S5000」（以下、S5000）を発表した。 Active Fabricは、仮想化が進む最近のデータセンターに最適なネットワークアーキテクチャだ。 従来のデータセンターでは、クライアントからデータセンターへ流れる垂直方向のトラフィックがメインだった。しかし、最近はVMやHadoop、VDIなどの登場でトラフィックパターンが変化、サーバーやVM間といった水平方向のトラフィックが飛躍的に増加した。こうした新たなトラフィックパターンに対応するのがActive...

  2013-06-17 / ID: MC-20484

• Shootout results: Best security tools for small business

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  ...anti-virus/anti-spam, VPN and outbound content filtering to prevent phishing and browser-based attacks. UTMs offer easy setup and they can support a 25-person small business for an average of around $1,500. We tested eight devices: Check Point Software's 640, Dell/Sonicwall's NSA250MW, Elitecore Technologies' Cyberoam CR35iNG, Fortinet's FortiGate 100-D, Juniper Networks' SSRX220H-POE, Kerio Technologies' Control 1100, Sophos/Astaro's UTM 220, and Watchguard Technolgies' XTM330. Learn More Already...

  2013-06-17 / ID: MC-20485

• Shootout results: Best security tools for small business

  view articleSmall Business IT World

  ...anti-virus/anti-spam, VPN and outbound content filtering to prevent phishing and browser-based attacks. UTMs offer easy setup and they can support a 25-person small business for an average of around $1,500. We tested eight devices: Check Point Software's 640, Dell/Sonicwall's NSA250MW, Elitecore Technologies' Cyberoam CR35iNG, Fortinet's FortiGate 100-D, Juniper Networks' SSRX220H-POE, Kerio Technologies' Control 1100, Sophos/Astaro's UTM 220, and Watchguard Technolgies' XTM330. Learn More Already...

  2013-06-17 / ID: MC-20497

• Cisco impresses with first crack at next-gen firewall

  view articleSmall Business IT World

  ...and started testing the ability of the ASA CX to dive deep into applications. Compared to our test of other NGFW appliances a year ago, the ASA CX did surprisingly well with a 60% identification and block rate, essentially tying with our top performer (SonicWALL) and narrowly edging our second-best performer, Check Point. The ASA CX has nice granularity for many applications. For example, with LinkedIn, the ASA CX lets you allow most of LinkedIn, but block job searches or posts. In some cases, the...

  2013-06-17 / ID: MC-20498

• Channel Security Vet Thurber Lands At WatchGuard

  view articleCRN - Online

  ...to a request for comment Monday. A WatchGuard spokesperson said he was named vice president of sales for the Americas and EMEA regions. The industry veteran will report to WatchGuard CEO Joe Wang. WatchGuard competes with Barracuda Networks, Sophos and Dell SonicWall with its unified threat management appliances. WatchGuard's appliances are suited for small and midsize businesses, according to a recent Gartner analysis of the enterprise firewall market. The company offers next-generation firewall...

  2013-06-17 / ID: MC-20510

• Responding to State-Sponsored Attacks

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  John Gordineer of Dell SonicWALL on Mitigating Threats State-sponsored attacks are up significantly, so organizations need to rely on new, stronger controls to ward off advanced threats. John Gordineer of Dell SonicWALL discusses the role of next-generation...

  2013-06-17 / ID: MC-20511

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