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Firewall Augmentation
Network appliances such as firewalls and VPN terminations devices perform important enforcement and privacy functions to protect IT infrastructure from unauthorized and malicious usage. But as networks have increased performance with ubiquitous deployment of Gigabit and now 10 Gigabit Ethernet technologies, these devices have become bottlenecks, slowing network performance and degrading user experience. Foundry's Firewall Load Balancing solution on ServerIron switches provides load balancing across security devices for intelligent traffic distribution. Firewall load balancing ensures that you can build networks that are not only secure, but also scale with exploding Internet traffic.
Server Farm Security Solutions
Application Firewall
Security threats have multiplied with adoption of web applications and these include buffer overflow attacks, SQL injection attacks and cross-site scripting. Application firewalls are a convenient solution to security holes in application server infrastructures and enterprise applications deployed on them. ServerIron has an embedded application firewall that can protect the application servers deployed behind it in addition to content switching and load balancing.
Server Farm Security Solutions
SSL Encryption & Decryption
While Web protocols deliver open and easy location-independent access to applications, these protocols introduce severe performance bottlenecks and impose significant overhead on servers. Use of secure Web protocols based on SSL compound the performance challenge. Foundry's ServerIron solution provides a range of network-based acceleration and optimization technologies for Web-based applications to increase the performance, scalability and security of Web-enabled enterprise, e-commerce and content provider applications.
Server Farm Security Solutions
Spam Mitigation
Spam is a menace, and is growing. Studies show that spam accounts for about 70% of e-mail messages today, and has grown from 60% last year. One fact remains, spam is here to stay and will grow. Traditionally, host- and content-based solutions that perform inspection, filtering, and verification have been used to fight spam. While these solutions are necessary, they are neither sufficient nor economical to scale with the growing volume of spam, and require massive continuous capital investment in bandwidth, storage, personnel, processing, and software just to catch up. To effectively fight spam and scale with its growth, Enterprises and Service Providers need new intelligent, cost-effective and scalable network-based solutions that complement traditional approaches to fighting spam. Foundry ServerIron SPAM-Def solution offers such benefits. It helps block spam from known spammers at network speeds, while providing granular traffic management control for e-mail to special-purpose spam appliances based on the quality of the sender.