The threat environment's shift, Leung said in a conversation with bMighty recently, from a push strategy (threats coming at your business from outside) to a pull strategy (threats brought into your network from the Web, e-mail, etc., by your employees)has meant a dramatic increase in the exposure of small businesses.
"Pull affects everybody," Leung says, "not just the large businesses that hackers intially targeted."
Te Netgear solution is a device positioned at the business gateway, with cloud-based real-time Web analysis and url filtering, along with Sophos anti-malware, Mailshell anti-spam and spam analysis, as well as firewall and intrusion protection. Additionally, the appliance supports p2P and IM monitoring as a means of enforcing business usage policies.
Leung feels that the real-time cloud-based scanning is a vital component of effective protection. "The cloud affords us the ability to understand threats in real-time, as they appear," he says, "as opposed to more limited anti-virus signature sets or anti-spam techniques."
He feels that the company's Stream Scanning technology enables real-time scanning, identification, and filtering of far more attack signatures than traditional anti-malware and anti-spam approaches, and does so with minimal latency or performance demands on the business network.
The ProSecure UTM appliances for small businesses will be available in July; price includes one-year subscription to security services based on number of users.
Leung notes as well that since subscription renewals for the second and subsequent years are as much as 55% lower than the initial buy-in, which covers the appliance as well as the subs.
Netgear's aggressive pricing (for the level of services promised in addition to the gateway harwdare) makes these worth a look by under 30-user busineses, I believe. The company's offering a Free 30 Day UTM Trial here.
If you take a look, let me know what you think.
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