WatchGuard Technologies has announced the launch of its entire line of content and network security products as virtualized solutions.
“For small and midsized businesses the Cloud is real, and WatchGuard is ready to protect it,” said Mohit Puri, Country Manager, India & SAARC, WatchGuard Technologies. “Hardware-based security is great and will be the mainstay for many businesses. However, there are many businesses now that are taking advantage of virtualization. For them, WatchGuard will be in lock step to provide the best security offerings for virtual environments, too.”
Four editions of Virtualized Extensible Threat Management or XTMv are being launched to meet the needs of small, midsize and large-scale distributed environments. This includes, XTMv Small Office edition, Medium Office, Large Office and Datacenter. These virtual versions provide the same type of security offered by XTM series hardware appliances, including application control, reputation enabled defense, intrusion prevention, gateway anti-virus, web blocking traffic shaping and more.
Because multiple instances of XTMv can run on a single vSphere hypervisor, the WatchGuard virtual appliance is ideal for managed security services providers (MSSPs), hosting providers, and larger IT organizations who wish to run separate logical firewalls on the same host system.
As the XTMv series can manage traffic passing within the virtual infrastructure, and even across internal networks between virtual machines in the same cluster or on the same server, it is well suited to implement security policies between applications, user communities or tenants. Even in small offices with a single server running consolidated workloads, an instance of XTMv can be run on the same server to protect the full server consolidation environment.
Also, four editions of XCSv (Extensible Content, DLP, Web and Email Security) are now available, including XCSv Small Office edition, Medium Office, Large Office and Large Office XC. These virtual versions provide the same level of Web content, DLP, email and messaging security offered by XCS hardware appliances, including advanced anti-spam and malware protection, zero-hour threat outbreak response and easy to use management and reporting features.
The WatchGuard XCSv series can be deployed adjacent to messaging and Web servers within the virtual infrastructure, and even across internal networks between virtual machines in the same cluster or on the same server. XCSv is suited to implement Web and messaging security policies between domains, applications, user communities or tenants.
Pricing and Availability
Both WatchGuard XTMv and XCSv will be supported on VMware vSphere versions 4.1 and 5.0. Pricing on XTMv and XCSv editions vary depending on edition size. The XTMv Small Office edition starts at Rs. 45,000; the XCSv Small Office edition starts at Rs. 19,500 and both respectively increase depending on edition sizes and security services and bundles. Both XTMv and XCSv solutions are available this month from authorized WatchGuard channel partners.
