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Wiresoft Firegate100 UTM Platform

General Specifications (1-100 users)

Firegateoffers comprehensive network protection by stopping spam, viruses, worms, trojans, and hackers before they enter your network.	Intuitive virtual private network capabilities offer seamless road warrior as well as site-to-site tunneling connectivity.
Advanced challenge/response mail processing provides each network user with individually customizable anti-spam preference settings.	Infinitely expandable hardware/software platform ensures thatFiregate can adapt to all future security threats and network needs.
Embedded anti-virus engine is optimized to provide transparent data-stream scanning as information enters the network, before it reaches client workstations.	Revolutionary ANA (Automated Network Administrator) system monitors and assures that eachFiregate has the lastest virus signatures on file. If aFiregate goes off-line, ANA notifies the customer.
Configurable firewall provides granular control over all packets entering or leaving the network.	Flat-cost pricing that does not require client access licenses encourages business growth. All client machines on the network are automatically protected.
No limit on users for VPN or any otherFiregate function.	Content filtering to protect companies from unauthorized Web surfing.

Spamwall Solution

SPAMWALL is aFiregate feature that blocks spam from entering the protected network by requiring unknown email senders to verify their identity before the message is forwarded to the protected recipient. This challenge/response system is proactive, allowing only senders present on the recipient'sacceptlist to pass through. All others are automatically sent an auto-reply "challenge" message to which they must respond. Once they reply,Firegate releases the held message and adds their name to the acceptlist. The challenge is easy for people to understand, but nearly impossible for automated systems (spambots) to complete. Each address thatFiregate protects offers an individually configurable acceptlist and blocklist.

Expandable Platform

Mostalternative security appliance solutions offer limited expandability. Competitors define expandability as feature activations that are only enabled by purchasing additional client licenses or pre-defined value added modules.

Wiresoft sells theFiregate100 as a secure firewall platform that provides all available appliance features without per-seat license restrictions. This means that Wiresoft does not charge a fee for each computer on the network. Your business can alter the pricing structure offered to clients. Wiresoft promotes theFiregate as a dynamic security platform having unlimited platform expandability, continuously offering new protection mechanisms and features as we develop them. To facilitate such expandability, the Firegate appliance includes hardware specifications (processor speed, onboard RAM, onboard non-volatile storage, etc.) that significantly surpasses that of alternative appliance solutions.

Firegate's unlimited expandability enables Wiresoft to continually evolve its features offering even after initial product deployment to the customer site. Wiresoft will deploy new capabilities to every subscribedFiregate client, as theFiregate platform evolves from one version to the next.

Firewall

Firegate's Firewall Interface

Firegate's firewall interface is designed around the safety through simplicity philosophy. Security interfaces that are easy to comprehend play a significant role in decreasing operator errors. After all, minimizing the mistakes that an operator can make when configuring network security enables Firegate to provide the protection for which it was bought.

Out of the box,Firegate offers immediate protection for the private network. The standardFiregate firewall philosophy is simple enough. Computers on the private network are allowed to access the Internet; but computers on the Internet are not allowed to access the private network. Firegate's default automatically configured firewall rules are perfect for the needs of most company networks.

For the more unique network environments,Firegate offers simple and easy firewall configuration interfaces that minimize opportunities for administrator error and reduce deployment time. Firegate's advanced firewall logging capabilities enable administrators to track individual packets that hit the firewall or connections that pass through the firewall.

Part of the firewall services, Firegate's Network Address Translation (NAT) routing feature supports pass-through for advanced protocols such as PPTP, IPsec, FTP, TFTP and IRC, among others.

Knowledgeable network engineers can further use the TCP and UDP port forwarding options to redirect specific services from the public interface on the Firegate to servers on the private network.

Anti-Virus

Anti-Virus Protection

The Firegate anti-virus process has never been breached.

This includes viruses linked to email or attachments coming into the network or viruses linked to any Web sites that could be introduced when surfing the Internet.Firegate also provides protection for messages initiated inside the network, should a virus be introduced into the network via a thumb drive or some other portable drive or medium.

Simply put,Firegate blocks viruses both ways, incoming and outgoing.

Anti-Spam

Anti-Spam Protection

Firegateoffers protection against unsolicited commercial emails (UCE) by stopping messages that arrive via POP3 and/or SMTP data streams. Spamwall uses a mixture of various uniquely integrated mechanisms to filter out spam from the mail stream. The primary filter is a challenge/response mechanism that can alter its behavior depending on the results of other content analysis filters.

Firegate's Spamwall filter permits spam protection to be individually enabled or disabled for individual email addresses and POP3 accounts. Individual configuration settings, notification messages, and filter preferences can be managed for each protected account via the primary Web administration interface or via each user's Spamwall account interface.

Messages identified as spam are placed into the spam queue, where they sit for up to 7 days before being silently erased. When a message is placed into the spam queue, the respective sender is always notified and given a chance to respond in order to ensure that no false positives occur. When messages expire from the spam queue, they are assumed to be unwanted junk and are passed through the Bayesian learning engine as examples of spam.

Likewise, messages from senders who are found on the protected recipient's acceptlist are automatically passed through the Bayesian learning engine as examples of non-spam.

Spamwall provides acceptlists and blocklists for both the individual user account and the global account. Email addresses as well as domain names may be manually entered into the accept/block lists in order to pre-populate them with known bad and good addresses. For example, each user's address book may be exported to a text comma separated value (CSV) file, copied to the clipboard, and pasted into the user's acceptlist input field. Spamwall intelligently extracts the email addresses from all of the given text, and adds new addresses to the acceptlist. Duplicate addresses are ignored.

VPN Services

VPN Services

Firegate provides two kinds of VPN services, PPTP and IPsec.

Firegate's VPN implementation employs 3DES encryption with a 2-hour rotating key on each IPsec tunnel to provide security against brute force decryption attacks. Wiresoft uses 3DES for security which also provides compatibility with other systems and components, where used by the customer.Firegate's VPN service is interoperable with industry standard routers and firewalls including Cisco firewall/routers and SonicWALL Pro firewall/VPN appliances.

Firegate Content Filtering

Firegate Content Filtering

The proliferation of Internet access by workers has significantly raised the liability of companies.Firegate offers the peace of mind that only Internet Web sites approved by the company are being accessed.

Firegate uses an on-board in-line filtering system and is located as described in the ANA white paper as being placed between your organization's network and the Internet. No user in the company knows it's there. Because the system sees every packet, it can examine each one to decide if it needs filtering. Filtering can be done through various types of options.Firegate offers blocklist by URL, blocklist by key word, acceptlist by URL, and a changeable security scale. In-line filters handle 100% of the network traffic because every packet goes through the filtering system. In addition, each packet, no matter to what port it is directed, can be examined for HTTP, IM, and P2P packets. Because Firegate requires no reconfiguration of any user system and no network configuration, all that's required is for the administrator to configure it for use.

The Firegate process is fast and provides a total solution.The Firegate uses "zero latency" filtering. When a request for a new Web site comes in, it is passed through and sent to the Firegate, which then makes the "block-no block" decision, while the Firegate is processing the request. If the decision is made to block, the system redirects the user to a screen explaining the situation. If the decision is made to not block, the system will let traffic from the Web server reach the user.

24/7 Monitoring & Updating

Automated Network Administrator (ANA) - 24/7 Monitoring & Virus Updates

The ANA management service enables Wiresoft to deploy network server and security solutions that break traditional market barriers in product cost and features.In the marketplace, Wiresoft employs the ANA management services to provide the following differentiating factors for its Firegate Security Platform family of products:

Wiresoft products are proactively monitored, managed, and tracked via an ultra secure server and a central data base.
Updates for Wiresoft Antivirus solutions are individually sent out, tracked and confirmed.
Wiresoft routinely provides product updates and version upgrades at no additional cost.
Wiresoft products automatically evolve as new versions are made available, to best meet the needs of the business world, as those needs change in time.