VPN and virus protection - Security appliances and VPNs - Symantec Gateway Security appliance - Brief Article - Product Announcement

Communications News, August, 2002

Designed to provide small and midsize businesses and branch offices of large corporations with protection against security breaches at the network perimeter, the Gateway Security appliance integrates firewall, gateway-level antivirus, intrusion detection, content filtering and VPN capabilities for up to 5,000 users in a single solution. Five core security functions are managed from a single graphical management console included with the appliance. Administrators can monitor traffic at the application level, and the latest virus definitions and intrusion detection attack signatures are downloaded automatically to reduce the administrative workload.--Symantec www.rsleads.com/208cn-334

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