Firewall Software

eTrust Firewall was designed from the ground-up for pervasive deployment throughout the enterprise. This robust solution handles a virtually unlimited number of concurrent sessions and scales to a tremendously large numbered of users. eTrust Firewall incorporates the latest technologies for providing bullet-proof security, along with a unified console for enterprise-class manageability - making it easy to deploy your firewall throughout the enterprise. Its superior technology, combined with support for all application protocols offers organizations unparalleled firewall protection. Using the tools provided, you can implement a level of security that satisfies the needs of any organization, balancing the advantages of open access - where appropriate - with the need to protect valuable assets. 

Deployment

eTrust Firewall can be deployed at all sensitive network gateways and mission-critical hosts. Its single rules base provides consistent security across the enterprise. The software enables you to:

Deploy Unified Policy-Based Security- eTrust Firewall allows you to define your network security policies centrally. These policies are automatically propagated throughout the enterprise to all installations, ensuring consistent and pervasive security for the enterprise. Ensure Accuracy of New Rules - A rules tester simulates network sessions, helping you walk through the rules base to ensure accuracy of your rules definitions and helping ensure these new rules are consistent with your overall security policy.

Features

The product is designed with simplicity in mind, yet without compromising the full functionality of a firewall. Here are some of the distinctive features of the software:

Administrative Rights Delegation and Scoping Local network segment administrators can add rules pertinent to their environment and business processes, while enterprise-wide network policies can be set by the enterprise network manager. This stratification enables different rules for different business segments l without compromising overall network security. Enterprise-Wide User Authentication Automatic propagation of authentication information to all firewall deployments between the user and the resources. This enables authorized users to access all their resources with maximum productivity. Security Visualization eTrust Firewall Includes an extremely visual and intuitive GUI. This enables network administrators to visualize network resources and easily perform tasks like dragging and dropping policies to various resources. TCP State Aware Packet Filter Technology TCP State aware packet filtering offers the most robust protection for complex protocols. By tracking TCP/IP sessions and filtering IP packets based on the state of the session, eTrust Firewall can analyze the packets with application-level intelligence, while maintaining the efficiency of a packet filter.   Centralized Administration Multiple firewall engines can be centrally and securely managed from a single console. Policy modifications are automatically propagated to the firewall engines, enabling consistent enterprise-wide security. Secured Interface for Other Applications An authenticated method for setting dynamic rules by other applications such as eTrust Intrusion Detection is provided by eTrust Firewall.  Network Address Translation (NAT) Provides users of private servers access to outside systems and services without revealing the IP address of the server. Internal IP addresses can be automatically translated to valid addresses for Internet use thereby limiting the number of public IP addresses required. Extensive Alert Mechanism and Reporting Provides network traffic and operational visibility centrally from multiple firewall deployments. Information such as firewall host, vital status, current connection, routing table and more is available for observation and monitoring.