Security vendor eSoft this week plans to announce six gateway intrusion-prevention systems and content-filtering appliances that the company says significantly boost speed and processing power compared with the company's current security models.
The three new models of the InstaGate Integrated Gateway are firewall/VPN IPSs supporting speeds of as much as 750Mbps; they replace the lower-speed InstaGate 305 family, which topped out at a speed of 140Mbps. The three new models of the eSoft ThreatWall Content Security Gateway can filter as many as 75,000 e-mails per hour; they replace current ThreatWall appliances that process as many as 6,500 e-mails per hour.
The InstaGate 404, 604 and 806 models are unified threat management (UTM) devices that combine firewall, IPS, antivirus filtering and other content-filtering options into a single hardware appliance.
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Scott Lukes, vice president of marketing and product development at eSoft, says the company has developed its own antivirus technology but relies on Aluria for antispyware filtering.
Among eSoft's competitors in gateway defense are Cisco, Symantec, McAfee, SonicWall and Juniper.
The ThreatWall models 250, 450 and 650 are antispam filtering appliances that include antivirus and antispyware options and block instant messaging (IM) and peer-to-peer file sharing.
Tim Taylor, IT director at Good Times Restaurants, a nationwide chain in Golden, Colo., a few weeks ago swapped out an older InstaGate for the Model 806 to filter out spam and spyware at the Internet perimeter on behalf of employees at its headquarters.
"We use it as an all-in-one appliance," Taylor says. "The newer InstaGate model gives us better speed, and Web content seems to be available faster with it."
ESoft's six intrusion-prevention and content-filtering appliances include: