Our predictable firewall performance and reliability enable you to protect against DoS attacks, protect wireless LANs, consolidate firewall deployments and maintain a consistent level of security as your company grows. Our high physical and virtual interface densities allow you to create secure network segments or customer environments with a distinct firewall, security policy and management. By segmenting the network with firewalls and access control, you can prevent users from unauthorized roaming while containing any damages sustained from successful attacks. If you’re a service provider, you can leverage our segmentation capabilities to create secure customer environments on a single appliance.

Our security solution does not stop with a Stateful inspection firewall. Our firewall is tightly integrated with an IPSec VPN solution to provide you the ability to establish secure, remote communications with employees, business partners and customers—all without having to buy additional hardware. NetScreen’s integrated Firewall/VPN solutions are managed using a single interface, simplifying configuration, deployment, and ongoing management to deliver a product that efficiently meets your network security needs and reduces your total cost of ownership.

Follow the links below to learn more about the benefits of NetScreen’s firewall solution:

• Purpose-built appliances
• Security above and beyond firewall protection
• Segmenting the network for added security
• Performance
• Built-in reliability
• Centralized management

Our Stateful Inspection firewalls enable you to effectively control who and what has access to your network while authenticating users to ensure they are who they say they are. The predictable, high performance of our solutions also gives you the strong denial-of-service (DoS) protection you need to help you withstand system overloads. The performance capacity of our firewalls also enables you to segment your network to minimize unauthorized roaming and contain attacks in your infrastructure. Our high physical and virtual port densities allow you to divide your network up into distinct, secure segments, complete with their own policy for access control, VPN and DoS functionality.

Our firewalls have received the Common Criteria and ICSA Firewall certifications. These certifications include a stringent and extensive certification process to verify that products effectively satisfy the security requirements of today's networks. As a result, you can be assured that our products meet the highest standards and offer you the solutions you need to secure your network environments.

Our firewalls are combined with our ICSA certified IPSec VPNs that allow you to establish secure communications between your employees, business partners and customers. Our dynamic VPNs offer a fault tolerant solution, combining the resiliency and efficiencies of route-based VPNs with the security and ease of use of policy-based firewalls. You can apply our unique security zones to the VPN traffic to gain the additional security you need, without compromising the performance or management simplicity of route-based VPNS.

One of our key differentiators is the fact that our solution is purpose-built, assembled from the ground up for security, integrating the platform, OS and application layers, which includes tightly integrated firewall, VPN and networking functionality. This unique combination means that we can minimize interoperability issues, reduce patches and simplify the overall management of the solution. As a result, our solutions are easy to deploy, configure and maintain, reducing the chance for human error and ensuring that you have the same high level of security across the network. As a result, securing your network with our solutions, not only protects your network, but also can reduce your TCO.

Your organization must consider the TCO when comparing security solutions. Since the initial investment that you make in security typically represents only 20%-40% of the total cost, it is important to understand what your solution will require in terms of support, deployment and ongoing operations. By considering a security solution’s TCO, you are able to make investment decisions that achieve the highest returns.

In addition, when the TCO for security solutions is lowered, your organization is no longer forced to compromise security due to costs, allowing security to be deployed in other areas, without a dramatic increase in expenditures. For instance, NetScreen’s security solutions can build new layers of security into critical networks to protect internal network segments, provide security to wireless LANs or secure telecommuter communications. Moreover, by freeing up IT security personnel from ongoing maintenance tasks associated with competing security solutions, your organization can dedicate valuable IT resources to other business critical tasks.The Giga Group recently came out with a report detailing the TCO advantages of NetScreen's solutions and how their deployment in the network is not just a good security investment but a good overall investment in your network.

NetScreen offers unique advantages that lower each cost area:

Our solutions provide a lower TCO than competing options. Our TCO advantage enables companies to improve their security, by deploying affordable security solutions in more areas and for more applications. Simply put, we improve the overall security, while reducing the total cost of security.

You can choose the performance you need for each and every network segment, so you aren’t forced to compromise security or performance in any deployment. Our solutions also offer the performance needed to grow with you and your network requirements to ensure that you can maximize your investment. And to help you maintain and even lower the acquisition and support costs, we made our operating system field upgradeable, so that new features can be easily added to your existing solution, further extending the life of the product. The final component that contributes to our high performance is a tightly integrated set of security applications that includes Stateful inspection firewall, IPSec VPN, and denial-of-service (DoS) blocking functionality.

Follow the links below to learn more about the components that make up NetScreen’s award winning performance.

• Purpose-built platform
• Built-in High Availability