McAfee Firewall Enterprise 4150 Network Security Appliance

Today's Firewall Challenges Mandate a New Paradigm of Protection
Firewalls are a company's first line of defense against security threats and critical to every organization's network protection strategy. But threats to the enterprise are becoming more dangerous and unpredictable every day, with new application-layer attacks, Web 2.0 vulnerabilities, and signatureevading malware. Security incidents are on the rise-due in large part to archaic firewall protection technologies that cannot defend against these new threat vectors. At the same time, firewall administrators struggle to manage and troubleshoot numerous legacy firewall policies as administration costs continue to rise.

Exploding cost of management
Managing multiple aging firewalls is a time- and resource-intensive task, to say the least. Uncoordinated changes to applications and networks cause outages that often take hours or even days to troubleshoot. Administrators lack visibility into user behavior and struggle to efficiently respond to changing business needs. This is to say nothing of more frequent mandates to demonstrate compliance with audit and regulatory requirements-another tedious task that is made more costly and laborious if you lack useful reporting tools.