WEB filtering and security specialist Smoothwall has invested in the launch of two new hardware appliances - the SWG-3600 and UTM-3000 - which have been designed and engineered by some of the UK’s leading experts to deliver stress free web filtering and network security.

Both have been developed for large organisations with network heavy traffic and are based on Dell’s PowerEdge server platform currently utilising twin 6-core Intel Xeon processors, 12GB RAM, a pair of 1TB RAID SATA disks and specialist high performance NICs.

Smoothwall’s Technical Manager Rob Faulkner says: “These new products are a natural extension of our range and fit really easily into all types of network environments. They are ideal for the corporate, education and public sector markets as they deliver dynamic filtering and network protection which is easy to set up and deploy whilst benefitting from the power and reliability associated with Dell hardware.”

The SWG-3600 includes dynamic web content analysis (every page filtered in real-time including encrypted HTTPS content) with 'who, what, when, where' policy tools - enabling organisations to perfectly tune user web access to improve on-line productivity and reduce liabilities. With integrated anti-malware, control of anonymous proxies, instant messaging, social-networking, blogging, file-uploads, P2P sharing, video and Flash files, the SWG-3600 covers all the Web Security bases. The device also supports filtering for guest Wi-Fi, remote laptops & mobile devices and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) schemes. With detailed reporting and live traffic graphs it provides everything needed to protect users, networks and large organisations.

The UTM-3000 provides a fully featured firewall and network security package, integrated with Smoothwall’s Guardian Web Security dynamic content filtering which provides reliable protection from user web misuse and web vectored malware. The UTM-3000 includes a VPN Gateway can manage up to 1000 secure connections, WAN aggregation as standard, and optional Email Security with anti-malware, spam and phishing detection. The unit also features efficient load balancing for in-coming and out-going traffic across multiple internet connections with fail-over protocols and flexible Internet Access Control with User Authentication.

Smoothwall’s Managing Director Richard Moore adds: “We pride ourselves on being at the forefront of filtering and security technology and we have found that by investing in British design, engineering and support that we can develop effective solutions that outstrip the underperforming security technologies many organisations currently use. Our new filtering and firewall products have been greeted with much approval from IT professionals and we are already shipping them worldwide.”