Firewall Features

• Monitoring inbound and outbound traffic.
• User’s authentication.
• Ports blocking
• Bandwidth management
• Logging
• NAT (Network Address Translation)
• Antivirus
• Spam Filtering
• URL Screening
• Web caching
• Centralized management
• SSL
• VPN
• Email Security
• IP Spoofing
• Blocks Intrusion attempts
• Blocks viruses, spyware and other web threats.
• HTTP Filtering
• MAC Address filtering
• Remote administration
• Ports Scanning
• Application monitoring
• IP Address ban list
• Application Layer Filtering

Before selecting a firewall product you should consider the following things

• Do you prefer software firewall or hardware?
• How many concurrent connections you require.
• Do you need high availability?
• What VPN protocols do you want to use.
• Which level of security does your network require?
• How many VPN tunnels do you need to run concurrently?
• What type of user interface do you prefer?
• Authentication features.