Comprehensive Enterprise Security Management

To be secure, corporations need an effective security policy that is enforced consistently across multiple firewalls. To achieve this, a security solution must be able to define an enterprise-wide policy and distribute it - all from a central management console. It must also enable corporations to manage their entire security infrastructure - corporate firewalls, VPNs, personal firewalls, and QoS - from a single console.

• Policy based VPN and Firewall Management

• Automatic NAT Configuration

• Integrated Quality of Service Management

• Integrated Client Security

• Granular User Authorization and Authentication Management

Policy-based VPN and firewall Management

SmartCenter and SmartCenter Pro enable administrators to centrally manage and deploy a single firewall policy to a large number of VPN-1 and FireWall-1 enforcement points. Once a policy is defined, it can be automatically distributed to all locations. This dramatically increases management efficiency and strengthens security because the security policy is always up-to-date at all security enforcement points.
 

Automatic NAT Configuration

SmartCenter provides administrators the capability to automate NAT rule generation during the object definition process. Doing this will automatically generate the appropriate NAT rule saving administrative time.
 

Integrated Quality of Service Management

Enterprise customers can easily extend a VPN-1 or FireWall-1 deployment to include Quality of Service (QoS), without the complexities associated with deploying and managing dedicated QoS devices. Using the QoS tab within SmartDashboard, administrators can create and modify the corporate QoS policy. The SmartCenter architecture makes it possible for administrators to use the same network objects and user-groups used for formulating security policies, to create the QoS policy.
 

Integrated Client Security

Using the desktop security GUI in the SmartDashboard, administrators can define security rules for remote users that protect their machines from unauthorized access. Security rules may be defined for users or groups of users, enabling organizations with different types of remote access VPN users - such as salespeople and IT staff - to tailor client security policies to their users' varying needs.
 

Granular User Authorization and Authentication Management

As Web-based applications become more widely used, centralized management of user authentication and authorization becomes a critical requirement. SmartCenter management centralizes and simplifies administration of users of corporate Web applications. Administrators can use the Web Access tab in SmartDashboard to easily define Web access policies for authorization, authentication and auditing of users in a Web-based application environment.