New 3Com H3C VPN Firewalls To Enhance Network Protection

3Com has introduced the H3C SecPath F-Series and H3C SecBlade VPN Firewalls. These new VPN firewalls deliver scalable threat protection against business disruptions, potential revenue loss and damage to an organisation’s reputation caused by security breaches. The new products provide scalability in a future-proof architecture that reduces the total cost of ownership (TCO).

Intended for enterprise edge, core, data centre and high-speed computing environments, the new firewalls come in appliance and blade form factors and are currently undergoing ICSA Labs certification.

Highlights

3Com’s new H3C SecPath F-Series and SecBlade VPN Firewalls are virtualised firewalls that combine multi-core processors and the full feature set of the H3C Comware operating system, which provides seamless integration of security devices and management in network architectures. This results in a high-availability solution that can be managed from the Intelligent Management Center (IMC) console, reducing administrative and deployment overhead.

More from Biztech

Future Group - Reliance Retail Deal approved by CCI RBI ban on cryptocurrencies takes effect; prohibition could force investors to tap the black market

The new H3C SecPath F-Series and SecBlade VPN Firewalls will deliver support for real-time business-critical applications such as VoIP, video and collaboration applications. They are designed to provide enhanced stateful packet inspection firewall filtering. This allows network and security administrators to control traffic down to the individual IP address and have fine-grain control of all security services to efficiently implement desired security policies.

Security administrators can now create multiple zones and separate firewall instances on the same device (‘virtual firewalls’). This allows for more granular security policies than traditional firewall devices, and traffic can be zoned among wired/ wireless networks, employee/ guest LANs or other network segmentation strategies. The firewalls also allow organisations to look inside encrypted IPsec VPN tunnels for attacks. This prevents the propagation of exploits between sites and provides protection from risks that can develop when laptop users terminate VPN connections outside of the office.

Pricing/ Availability

All of the products in the H3C SecPath F-Series are available today. The H3C SecBlade VPN Firewall modules are available today for the 7500E chassis and the 5820 and 9500E chassis are scheduled for release in Q4 2009.

The SecPath F1000 series starts at under $10,000, and the F5000-A5 starts at under $100,000. The SecBlade VPN Firewall modules start at under $25,000.