Overview

The Firebox M470 is a rack-mount Unified Threat Management (UTM) appliance that is specifically engineered for enterprise customers that are struggling to effectively and affordably secure networks in the face of explosive growth in bandwidth rates, encrypted traffic, video use, and connection speeds. With an operating system built on the latest generation of processors from Intel, the M470 has all the power enterprise customer’s need to run their security scanning engines in parallel, without causing a performance bottleneck.

The M470 was introduced this year, with major hardware improvements that enable the appliance to better handle the rapid proliferation of encrypted web traffic, and offer more flexibility with added copper and fiber ports. Users can now easily add network modules to increase the number of copper or fiber ports available to support the growing use of 10G fiber in enterprise data centers. The M470 also enables users to inspect encrypted traffic with industry-leading performance while all the security services are enabled. That means Application Control, APT Blocker, Data Loss Prevention, Gateway AntiVirus, IPS, Network Discovery, Reputation Enabled Defense, SpamBlocker, Threat Detection and Response and WebBlocker can all run simultaneously and the M470 still delivers 3.1 Gbps throughput

According to a 2016 Ponemon study, 41 percent of attacks in 2016 used encryption to either disguise their entry into the network or hide their connection to a Command and Control server. NSS Labs, Inc. forecasts that as adoption rates continue to climb, 75 percent of web traffic will be encrypted by 2019. Network defenses that can’t adequately process and inspect encrypted traffic leave employees, customers and partners vulnerable to cyber attacks.

The Firebox M470 offers a dramatic improvement in throughput and the industry’s top security services to ensure enterprise customers don’t have to choose between performance and security.