How fast is your firewall?
By Davey Winder in Editorial
Posted in Blog, hardware, Security on
I am informed, admittedly by way of the company that makes the product in question, that a new firewall is delivering “record-setting performance” to the enterprise segment. The PR bunnies for said company assures me that the FortiGate-620B multi-threat security appliance “sets new performance records with 16 Gbps firewall and 12 Gbps VPN throughput.” Which begs the question, how fast is your firewall?
I have to admit that it is not something I have not lost a great amount of sleep over to be fair. But then again I have not got a gigabit-switching infrastructure to worry about so do not have to consider internal network segmentation points with gigabit-per-second links. Yet it seems that this level of requirement is starting to escape from the expected boundaries of the high-end enterprise and firmly into the SME marketplace with increasing frequency. So maybe it is just as well that security vendors are thinking about affordable appliances that manage to break into new performance territory, that can pack a 24 port density punch and introduce security-specific ASIC network processors previously reserved for truly high-end products only.
Indeed, Fortinet CTO and co-founder Michael Xie is adamant that what is needed is a “strategy to drive higher price/performance and port density into our products in order to bring high-end enterprise-level features to a broader enterprise segment.” Not least because firewalls must evolve to survive in the dynamic enterprise technology landscape where threats are ever changing.
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