Cyberoam (News - Alert), a provider of network security appliances, announced that its newly launched next-generation firewalls (NGFW) will feature Layer 8 Identity-based technology to help users realize actionable intelligence and controls.
The new firewalls are part of the company’s NG Series appliances and they deliver EAL4+ certified protection along with other features, like application visibility and controls, intrusion prevention, website filtering, HTTPS inspection, VPN and granular bandwidth controls and more.
The new NGFWs are capable of letting users enjoy both advanced network security and quicker network performance with flexible connectivity. They can enable work-profile based policies and a single interface for policy creation across all features, providing ease of management and high security with flexibility.
Abhilash Sonwane, senior vice president at Cyberoam, commented, “Cyberoam’s Human Layer 8 acts like a standard abstract layer that binds with real Layers 2-7, enabling enterprises to regain lost security controls. By binding User Identity across Layers 2-7, enterprises can put security checks where they want to from L2-L8, along with complete visibility into user and network activities. Such actionable intelligence and security controls offer enterprises to strengthen their defenses, simplify security management, besides allowing them to scale effectively for their growing performance needs.”
It is said that vendors and customers do not share the same performance values when it comes to firewalls. Cyberoam claims to have remedied this situation with its new Next Generation security subscription bundle.
Cyberoam exclaimed that its NG series NGFWs deliver stateful and deep packet inspection for network, application and user identity-based security. Cyberoam’s Layer 8 Technology treats user identity as the 8th layer, or the “human layer,” in the network protocol stack allowing administrators to easily identify them and control their activities in the network.
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