IT Connection Product Assessment reports provide in-depth analysis of more than 200 products and services. Each Product Assessment report includes expert analyst advice and recommendations on what to look for when making buying decisions. Click here to view sample reports.
Cisco - ASA 5500 Series Cisco did not have any major firewall announcements in the first half of 2011, the company continues to roll out its new high end 5585-X boxes, which were announced late in 2010.
Check Point remains committed to maintaining the IP Series appliance line. The company now carries three separate appliance classes. The IP line hardware came through the acquisition of Nokia’s security appliance business in April 2009. (7/15/2011)
Cisco did not have any major firewall announcements in the first half of 2011, the company continues to roll out its new high end 5585-X boxes, which were announced late in 2010. (7/15/2011)
Fortinet continues its leadership in unified threat management, focusing on inspection techniques that blur the lines between firewall, IPS and active threat defense. (7/15/2011)
Juniper has made good progress in extending the capabilities of the SRX family through integration with vGW virtual gateway, and extension of the AppSecure suite from the branch to the data center SRX products. (7/15/2011)
A measure of the factors that affect the cost of a device over its entire useful life, including licensing, support contracts, training, support software, and other factors (TCO).
Scalability
Scalability measures the performance and capacity of the security device based on key industry metrics including concurrent sessions, setup/teardown rate per second, and encryption and inspection performance, but also ranks solution breadth, clustering technologies, and architecture.
Management
Firewalls and VPNs are often distributed across multiple geographies. Centralized reporting and management reigns in the cost of remotely administering users and networks.
Encryption
The encryption metric specifically ranks each product based on its stated encryption capabilities and the platform's ability to deliver that encryption at speeds at or near the rated capacity of the device.
Depth of Defense
Firewall/VPN and unified threat management devices are converging into a single product category in the enterprise branch and enterprise mid-market segments. Depth of Defense ranks each product based on the sophistication of its access and inspection features.
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