BorderMARA: An integral perimeter solution for all your firewall, VPN and caching needs
BorderMARA is an integrated appliance that combines the functions of GateMARA and CacheMARA. BorderMARA reduces your costs for network security implementation, simplifies administration routines and minimizes points of failure. Via a single entry point, your network administrator will be able to manage all users' Internet access rights and define complete access policies for them.
BorderMARA is an AAA-enabled system, which authenticates, authorizes and accounts for all Internet access.
High-performance Firewall
The firewall module used in BorderMARA, has a unique structure that enables it to work at a much faster speed than conventional firewalls. Its simplicity and efficiency is unmatched by any other firewalls on the market today, and it makes life a good deal easier for system administrators.
BorderMARA offers an entirely new and intelligent way of creating, viewing and evaluating security rules. It organizes these rules based on relationships between "network object groups", such as users, IP addresses and networks. So, when your system administrator needs to review the rules, he or she can ask BorderMARA to show only the relevant information for the object groups in question, without having to read through thousands of lines.
Adding new rules to each set of relationship will not nullify the rest of the existing rules. This easy-to-use interface makes system administrators' jobs a whole lot easier.
Another great benefit of BorderMARA is its high-speed performance. A conventional firewall will slow down exponentially as the number of rules increase, and even come to a complete stop after it has processed several thousand rules. But BorderMARA does not have this problem. It can scan all the rules at one single glance and maintain its speed performance throughout. BorderMARA gives system administrators unlimited possibilities to increase the number of rules without having to increase computing power.
Cache Proxy
CacheMARA, BorderMARA's cache proxy, helps you to save precious bandwidth by caching frequently accessed Web pages locally, thus reducing the number of requests made on the Internet. This lowers traffic cosst and optimizes the Internet access speed on each user's computer. Besides speeding up Web browsing, BorderMARA also offers a user authentication feature, which compares users' login information with an external user database. This user authentication function, together with BorderMARA's Internet content filtering feature, helps identify the kind of content individual users access on the Internet and eventually block it. This content filtering feature is optional and is provided through partnership with Content Control from Blue Coat, a comprehensive content classification database on the Internet. Internet content filtering protects employees and organizations from Internet misuse and abuse, improves productivity, reduce legal liability and conserve Internet bandwidth.
A unique feature of CacheMARA is its compatibility with the ICAP protocol, a new standard of communication between the cache machine and virus scanner. CacheMARA can be programmed to decide which content should be sent to the virus scanner for verification. This feature will become increasingly important as viruses are likely to come in myriad different forms from more sources than ever imagined. The way CacheMARA works also makes the scanning faster than conventional virus-scanning methods, thus saving precious time along the way.
VPN Gateway
The VPN function in BorderMARA uses the IPSec protocol to create secure Virtual Private Networks. It is a much more cost effective alternative to eased lines. To ensure security and confidentiality, our VPN solutions are equipped with the latest encryption technology such as AES and 3DES, and are totally integrated with the firewall. To provide the highest possible level of interoperability, several authentication methods are available – X-509 certificates, RSA keys and shared secret.
To start saving unwanted costs, maximize performance, improve productivity, reduce legal risks and ensure airtight security for your company network, choose BorderMARA today.
To start saving unintended costs, maximize performance, improve productivity, reduce legal risks and ensure airtight security for your company network, BorderMARA is your best choice.