Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall (NGFW)

Protects people and data across highly distributed enterprise networks with exceptional efficiency, availability and security.

Forcepoint NGFW is a Next Generation firewall incorporating; ISP load balancing, Intrusion Protection, SSL encrypted inspection, anti-malware and centralised management.

Forcepoint NGFW’s has the full range of advanced security features and utilises multiple ISP connections (Multi-Link) to eliminate outages due to a single ISP link failure.  Multi-Link can simultaneously use any type of ISP connection including leased lines, radio, FTTC and ADSL.

This feature can help deliver a highly available Internet connection to provide access to applications that are only available from the cloud.

Main benefits of Forcepoint NGFW include:

• A wide range of built-in security capabilities including VPN, IPS, encrypted inspection, secure SD-WAN, and mission-critical application proxies
• Advanced malware detection and Zero-Day sandboxing
• Identifies potential botnet command-and-control communications
• Accelerated decryption inspects HTTPS and other SSL/TLS-based protocols efficiently to deny or allow specific HTTP commands or URL segments
• Dynamic URL filtering to enforce web access policies for compliance and block access to phishing sites as well as malicious or undesirable content
• Help prevent loss of sensitive data and intellectual property (DLP)
• Virtual Edition protects cloud workloads in AWS and Azure from the same centralised management console
• Large range of firewall physical and virtual appliances

Sonicwall NGFW

Security | Control | Visibility | Range

SonicWall NGFWs protect networks from the core to the perimeter with industry-validated security effectiveness and performance. The SonicWall Network Security Appliance (NSA) Firewall Series includes automated advanced threat prevention technologies. The SonicWall NGFW has a large range of appliance options to meet performance demands.

Main benefits of SonicWall NGFWs include:

• High-speed Stateful and deep packet inspection (DPI) to deliver ultra-low latency performance
• Single-pass DPI architecture simultaneously scans for malware, intrusions and application identification
• Application control and application bandwidth management
• Detect and prevent known and unknown threats both inbound and outbound
• Cloud-based, multi-engine sandboxing that blocks unknown and zero-day attacks
• Real-time TLS /SSL and SSH decryption and inspection
• WAN load balancing
• Supports Site to site VPN and client VPN (SSL VPN or IPSec)
• Web/email filtering and anti-virus/anti-spyware protection
• Expanded and granular reporting facilities with optional FastVue

Fastvue Reporter for SonicWall

Fastvue interprets log files from SonicWall to deliver enhanced web activity reports to HR, Department Managers and IT.  Fastvue Reporter makes review and reporting Internet usage exceptionally easy empowering IT and Non-technical stake holders with a real-time dashboard or generated reports with a clear and meaningful picture of what is happening.

Main benefits of Fastvue Reporter for SonicWall include:

• Monitor web searches to prevent extremism and radicalisation (UK KCSiE requirements)
• Go beyond simple log aggregation to provide web usage and productivity information
• Collates data into a single dashboard including automated reporting and alerting
• Productivity Reports when utilising SonicWall’s Content Filtering Service
• Activity reports with full forensic details
• Real-time Alerts for any type of traffic or network issue
• Integrates with Active Directory for Department/Group reporting