WatchGuard Previews New High Performance XTM Network Security Appliance

WatchGuard® Technologies today previewed its first extensible threat management (XTM) network security appliance, the WatchGuard XTM 1050, at Interop New York. Designed for enterprise campuses, data centres and other high-performance network environments, the WatchGuard XTM 1050 sets a new standard for high security and high performance by achieving 10Gbps firewall and 2Gbps IPSec throughput with dual quad-core Intel processors and advanced crypto-acceleration hardware. Coupled with power and performance, the WatchGuard XTM 1050 incorporates key elements of WatchGuard’s XTM vision,

including uncompromising security, extensible networking and management features, and unparalleled ownership benefits.

“Network threats are evolving and becoming more sophisticated, which has a deleterious effect on businesses and consumers,” said Eric Aarrestad, vice president of marketing at WatchGuard Technologies. “By making network security extensible, WatchGuard takes an unequalled position in the industry. The XTM 1050 embodies our vision of bringing extensible protection and networking in one high-performance, easy to manage and easy to own appliance.”

Leading with Extensible Protection. WatchGuard, the pioneer of deep packet inspection firewalls coupled with application proxy technologies, innovates again with the XTM 1050 by including two new security features: HTTPS inspection and VoIP security. Although the ‘S’ in HTTPS stands for secure, it also means to network administrators that HTTPS packets are virtually invisible to inspection, which opens networks to potential ‘drive-by downloads’, or other malicious applications. With WatchGuard’s full HTTPS proxy technology in the XTM 1050, HTTPS is no longer a risk waiting to be exploited.