With the
adoption of wireless LANs (WLANs), people in
distributed departments within medium to large
organizations benefit from the ability to access
information when away from a desk. Staff can
respond to requests while in the warehouse or
conference room improving efficiency and customer
service. This is true whether it's marketing,
sales, finance or HR. The benefits of WLANs
are not restricted to medium to large businesses
but local data access mobility is very useful
in healthcare, retail, finance, and hospitality
and manufacturing.
Today timely and secure data transactions are
critical. If inventory, patient test results,
financial reports and other sensitive data are
not available when and where needed, it can
seriously impact business success. Today many
businesses also place staff where the business
is generated. Therefore mobile employees, satellite
and temporary offices are very common for long
and short-term projects.
Create an instant
secure office network
The SG565
is CyberGuard's all-in-one Wireless Workgroup
Security and Data Access Appliance. It is a
feature-rich, desktop, network security and
data access device designed for today's business
that requires access to and collection of time-critical
data wherever their staff or customers may be.
The SG565 allows businesses to create a unique
wireless and wired local network. Not only does
it provide a wireless access point with secure
Internet access and site-site access to the
central office, it also supports network attached
file storage and network printing - all in one
appliance.
In effect, the SG565 creates the instant office
network using off the shelf peripherals. Providing
network storage via the SG565 is a simple as
plugging in a USB hard drive or USB flash device
into one of the available USB ports. Printing
is just as easy using USB printers and standard
desktop network printing services. This in many
cases eliminates a number of server computers.
It enables enterprises to deploy remote or temporary
office networks with major IT infrastructure
instantly available to carry on secure business.
Comprehensive
Security and Internet Uptime
The SG565
is well suited to protecting branch offices
of medium sized enterprises as well as other
sites such as gas stations, retail stores, medical
clinics, hotels and so on. The SG565 enables
small office networks to easily connect their
wired desktop or wireless notebook PCs to the
Internet via broadband (ADSL, cable, SHDSL,
T-1 and T-2 circuits, etc.) or narrow-band (modem
or ISDN). Should the broadband connection fail
the SG565 can fail over to a second broadband
connection or the narrowband backup connection,
ensuring uptime.
By providing five separate security zones, the
SG565 can support DMZs, guest networks, multiple
LANs and WANs. The SG565 unifies defenses to
combat blended threats into a single device
converging firewall, intrusion protection, threat
containment (vulnerability scanning/blocking),
with the capability of performing gateway anti-virus
e-mail scanning. High availability is achievable
by installing a pair of SG565 appliances for
load balancing or hot standby.
VPN capabilities
for Remote Access and Multi-site Access
A remote
office network can safely become part of a central
office network, as the SG565 is also a cost-effective
VPN end point device. The SG565 includes industry-standard
secure VPN access methods (IPSec, PPTP, L2TP)
with hardware-accelerated encryption. It is
complementary to the CyberGuard SG710 and CyberGuard
TSP families of firewall/VPN appliances for
medium to large-scale branch office to head
office VPN deployments.
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