| September 14 - (HOSTSEARCH.COM) - French company NETASQ yesterday announced the UK launch of its high-performance Unified Threat Management (UTM) appliances which cater for the security needs of all types of networks. Competing with companies like Cisco, Fortinet and Juniper for a growing UK market, NETASQ appliances offer a range of functions designed to protect service providers, company networks and all manner of remote users including real-time intrusion prevention, network and application firewall, advanced content filtering, embedded Kaspersky antivirus, antispam, antispyware, URL filtering, IPSEC and SSL VPN and bandwidth management. “We are seeing increasing demand for all-in-one UTM solutions from companies and organisations of all types and sizes,” said Ian Kilpatrick, Managing Director at Wick Hill, NETASQ’s prime UK distributor. He added, “While there is an increasing number products in this market, unlike many other UTM vendors NETASQ has managed to combine all the security features along with IPSec and SSL VPN remote access functionality without any reduction in speed and performance.” An IDC study last year reported a 66% growth in the security appliance market in 2004 and predicted a 61% compound annual growth rate between 2004–2009. |
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