Virtually any perimeter firewall can be used with iSheriff Web Security

Most every organization already utilises a perimeter firewall to control and restrict network traffic. Among the firewall offerings known to work with iSheriff Web Security are

• Cisco PIX and ASA
• Check Point
• SonicWall
• WatchGuard
• SonicWall
• Juniper / NetScreen

Configuring your perimeter firewall to forward traffic to iSheriff Web Security is a fast and simple way to expand your current security infrastructure with no additional hardware requirements.

Many companies seek to create a traditional perimeter defence by deploying a firewall at the edge of the network. As threats have evolved from more primitive attacks on the network itself to those targeting users and critical internal resources, traditional firewalls have struggled to adapt and include the scanning technology necessary to inspect network traffic for targeted or internally-bound threats.

Adding on content scanning functionality has typically left the firewall in a position of having a resource-intensive secondary role of analysing traffic at a deeper level than ever intended, as well has limited the ability to add a sufficiently extensive feature set.

This puts unnecessary strain on a device whose original design called for it to make quick decisions about network traffic based on a limited set of information, as well greatly limits the depth of content scanning that can be done as its most critical role is accepting, dropping, or routing traffic to internal resources with minimal latency.

Configuring your firewall to forward web traffic to iSheriff Web Security eliminates that need and provides an extensive feature set that isn't feasible to include in a firewall, allowing the firewall to return to its intended purpose while our expansive global infrastructure does the heavy lifting.

iSheriff Web Security has a number of benefits as a complement to your current perimeter firewall, such as:

• Receipt of anti-virus and anti-spyware scanned content at LAN speeds, reducing both risk and network latency
• Protection against blended threats, phishing attacks, botnets, malicious page content, and more
• Control usage of streaming media and social networking sites during work hours, preserving bandwidth and increasing productivity
• Prevent loss of sensitive or confidential data, which is commonly leaked through webmail, instant messaging, or blogs.
• Reduced load on content scanning firewalls – blocking content in the cloud reduces the resources required by a perimeter firewall, as well reduces bandwidth consumption and subsequently the amount of traffic the firewall must analyse
• Detailed realtime reporting, requiring no local database nor installation of reporting software