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Security appliance

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Security appliance

A security appliance is any form of server appliance that is designed to protect computer networks from unwanted traffic.

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Types of security appliances

  • Active devices block unwanted traffic. Examples of such devices are firewalls, anti virus scanning devices, and content filtering devices.
  • Passive devices detect and report on unwanted traffic, such as intrusion detection appliances.
  • Preventative devices scan networks and identify potential security problems (such as penetration testing and vulnerability assessment appliances).
  • Unified Threat Management (UTM) appliances combine features together into one system, such as some firewalls, content filtering, web caching etc.

    • Examples

    Examples of a security appliance include:

  • Aladdin Knowledge Systems eSafe Content Security Solution
  • ApplianSys AUDITbox vulnerability assessment and CACHEbox web cache/content filtering appliances.
  • Blue Coat Systems ProxySG UTM appliance.
  • Blue Pex Security Solutins UTM appliance.
  • CISCO Systems PIX firewall and Cyberoam UTM appliances.
  • Check Point UTM-1 Edge, Power-1, VSX-1, IP Appliances (Formerly a Nokia Product Line).
  • Clavister Next Generation Firewalls.
  • Distil Networks Virtual or Physical Appliances for Bot Detection
  • Finjan Vital Security - Secure Web Gateways.
  • F5 Networks BIG-IP security appliances.
  • Global Technology Associates, Inc. Firewall Appliance
  • GajShield Next Generation Firewall with Context based DLP
  • IronPort Web and Email security appliances.
  • Imperva SecureSphere datebase and file security appliance.
  • Innominate mGuard Firewall and VPN Security appliances.
  • Palo Alto Networks Next Generation Firewalls.
  • SonicWall UTM appliances.
  • Shieldcore Systems
  • Rapid7
  • Radware DefensePro - Application Security & Network Intrusion Prevention System.
  • VNS3 (a software-only virtual appliance)
  • Vyatta (a Linux distro that reproduces the functionality of a security appliance)
  • Websense (Application Security & Network Intrusion Prevention System)
  • EJBCA Appliance (PrimeKey PKI Appliance, Certificate Authority including Hardware security module)

    • References

    Security appliance Wikipedia
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