BorderWare SteelGate
SteelGate is a high-performance VPN firewall appliance that enables organizations to prevent attacks and block malicious behavior, control network traffic both inbound and outbound and centrally manage the perimeter defense infrastructure in a single security solution. SteelGate is a comprehensive firewall appliance that is based on the Common Criteria certified BorderWare Firewall Server software.
SteelGate has powerful default settings and a simple interface protecting against mis-configuration - a common source of vulnerability, while allowing IT administrators to get up and running faster. Other firewalls take a different approach to address potentially weak policies by allowing direct access to configuration files to make policy changes. This has the potential to leave a network vulnerable to unauthorized access. By tracking multiple threat types in real-time, SteelGate makes a more informed and accurate decision about network traffic.
Network Attacks
SteelGate provides comprehensive threat prevention against new and evolving attacks such as Denial of Service (DoS), Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS), and others. These types of attacks are not used to communicate with end users, rather their purpose is to overload systems rendering them unusable.
Buffer Overflow Prevention
Buffer overflow vulnerabilities are a persistent problem and hackers use them over and over again to subvert security. Unique among firewall systems, SteelGate is not vulnerable to buffer overflow attacks with its hardened operating system and segregated environments.
anti-virus
SteelGate complements existing virus protection by scanning both inbound and outbound email, web content and FTP file transfers for viruses, worms and trojans. SteelGate uses industry leading Kaspersky® anti-virus signatures providing enterprise-class virus protection against the latest threats.
Anti-Spyware
Many networks are susceptible to spyware, especially when it is bundled within legitimatelooking downloads and enticing freeware. SteelGate provides unprecedented protection against all types of spyware including riskware, pornware, adware and non-trojan spyware. SteelGate protects networks at the perimeter for potentially hostile programs that are used by hackers and other cyber-criminals. With this added layer of spyware protection, SteelGate provides a multi-layered approach to protect against a broad range of threats that goes beyond traditional network level attacks.
- Spyware: riskware, pornware, adware, non-trojan spyware
- Other Hostile Programs: system and remote-control programs, key generators/loggers, credit card number generators, Java classes, unexpected audio/video, security data collectors, virus simulators, multi-functional cookies
