Pro 5060f (Group Test: Enterprise Firewalls)

Company: SonicWALL
Pricing: $13,790

Better known for its smaller appliances, SonicWall has pushed into the enterprise market with its Pro 5060f. Running SonicOS Enhanced 3.1, the 1U appliance houses a 2.4GHz Intel Xeon processor, 512MB of RAM and six Gigabit Ethernet interfaces. The 'f' in our model signifies that two of these ports are ...

 

Nokia IP380 (Firewalls group test)

Company: Nokia
Pricing: $10,995 (Check Point software sold separately)
The Nokia IP380 is equipped with a Pentium III 866 Mhz processor with 256 MB RAM in a well-designed, 1U, rack-mountable unit.
 

Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2004 Enterprise Edition (Group Test: Enterprise Firewalls)

Company: Microsoft
Pricing: $5,999 per processor

Microsoft's Internet Security & Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004, is the company's application for turning a Windows 2000 or 2003 server into an enterprise firewall. Installation was painless on our test Windows 2003 server.

 

SonicWALL PRO 2040 Standard (IPsec VPNs)

Company: Sonicwall Inc.
Pricing: $3,600

The SonicWALL PRO 2040 Standard system provides three 10/100 Base-T Ethernet connections in a 1U height case. Installation and set up is simple.

 

Unicenter Remote Control (Remote administration tools)

Company: Computer Associates International Inc.
Pricing: $60 (per user)

Unicenter can be used as a standalone remote control program or as part of the Unicenter management system.

 

NetScreen-IDP 500 (Special report Intrusion prevention)

Company: NetScreen Technologies
Pricing: NS-IDP 500 - includes management server and IDP sensor: $34,995

The IDP-500 is a turnkey appliance-based system which uses as many as eight detection methods to detect malicious network traffic. This Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDP) System is capable of operating in in-line mode as an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) or as a passive Intrusion Detection System (IDS) attached to ...

 

McAfee Entercept (Intrusion Prevention group test)

Company: Network Associates
Pricing: $1,295 (standard agent); $1,595 (web server agent); $2,995 (database agent); $4,995 (management server)

The Entercept system, now acquired by Network Associat-es, has in its latest version bought a major revision to how software runs in the enterprise.

 

FortiGate 3600 (Appliance group test)

Company: Fortinet, Inc.
Pricing: $29,995

Fortinet offers a range of what it calls 'anti-virus firewalls' for all markets, from the home user to the large enterprise and carrier-class service provider.

 

TridiaVNC Pro (Telecoms Security group test)

Company: Tridia Corporation
Pricing: $49
 

Whilst RealVNC is freeware and a very basic remote access package with minimal security, TridiaVNC Pro shows what can be done with open source software.

 

CyberGuard KS1500 (IPsec VPNs)

Company: CyberGuard Corp.
Pricing: $36,200

The CyberGuard KS1500 packs a comprehensive firewall, redundant power supply and link aggregation options into its 2U height chassis. The second power supply is standard on the unit, but was supplied as an option.

 
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