Stories about: WatchGuard Technologies

Following a review of its infrastructure, the Sydney Church of England Grammar School (Shore) is replacing a mix of point solutions with two unified threat management network security appliances.

When we tested firewall performance as part of in our UTM firewall test we focused on how well the products would push inspected packets along with other UTM features, specifically intrusion-prevention systems and antivirus, turned on. However, many enterprise managers will use these devices primarily just as firewalls, and might be curious how fast they'd operate without UTM slowing them down.

There is no real agreement about whether antivirus software is required in or even a good idea for an enterprise-class firewall.

The data center may seem a big place, but watts are watts: Every one you use costs you money. Two firewalls in a high-availability pair may not be the biggest power expense in a computer room, but that's no excuse to waste wattage.

Without good management tools, the enterprise-class unified-threat-management firewalls we tested would be little more than expensive packet-pushers.

WatchGuard Technologies last week confirmed reports that it had cancelled a contract with an unnamed India-based offshoring company due to repeat customer complaints about poor support and service.

Security appliance and unified threat management (UTM) vendor WatchGuard Technologies has appointed Scott Robertson ANZ regional director.

Juniper last week offered up fresh evidence that its enterprise networks strategy is working, as it posted third-quarter financial results that included security-product sales growth nearly double that of competitors over the past year.

WatchGuard Technologies has launched its first SSL VPN gateway appliance with an integrated Citrix environment for remote access.

Geared to the SMB market, WatchGuard Technologies's Firebox X series offers a feature set comparable to more expensive firewalls -- along with some of the accompanying setup and administration complexities of enterprise firewalls.

Check Point Software Technologies -- formerly a software-only company -- now offers a line of low-end VPN firewall appliances for branch offices and home offices.