SnapGear™ can be deployed as just a firewall, as a VPN gateway, a UTM security appliance, or as a complete office network-in-a-box Internet appliance for small businesses, with all of the wide area networking tools needed to serve large enterprise remote offices.

SnapGear Highlights:

• Create an instant office with full Internet access
• Advanced high-speed platforms–true appliance technology
• All models flash upgradeable
• Drops seamlessly into any network–setup is a snap
• Both wired and wireless networking options
• Highly versatile–firewall, VPN gateway, a UTM security appliance, or complete network-in-a-box solution
• Threat management: stateful firewall, IDS/IPS, VPN, and gateway anti-virus
• Central management, failover, and load balancing
• Employee Web access filtering and reporting (Webwasher)
• Over 200,000 units shipped worldwide

It's a snap to set up your small business office with:

• A local network of PCs (wired or wireless including DHCP and all LAN routing functions)
• Internet connection
• Seamless LAN to WAN connectivity
• A complete perimeter security solution (firewall, VPN, intrusion detection/prevention, anti-virus)
• Secure remote VPN access for your mobile staff

SnapGear Family benefits, features, and advantages

Enterprise-class networking technology in small business platforms
SnapGear's configurable firmware is based on embedded Linux and provides a virtually unlimited range of precise tuning options for such elements as QoS (Quality of Service), VPN tunnel topology, routing, and fine-grained firewall rule sets.

Fully supports both business and consumer-grade broadband, ADSL, dedicated circuits from T-1 on up, narrow-band modems, and wireless. Advanced networking features include support of port & tag based VLAN, OSPF, BGP, RIP, RIPv2, RAS, RADIUS, TACACS+, MS-CHAP V2, and more. Web and DNS caching is also available.

Failover and load balancing
To assure uninterrupted connectivity, all SnapGear family products are equipped with a serial port. If the broadband Internet connection is lost, SnapGear products can automatically create a new narrowband connection using an external ISDN or analog modem. The SG560, SG565, SG580, and SG710/710+ appliances support multiple broadband ports to ensure uninterrupted WAN access and maximum bandwidth utilization.

Fully featured and powerful stateful inspection firewall technology
With ICSA-Certified dynamic firewall technology underpinning all SnapGear models, SnapGear customers are assured of the highest levels of stateful firewall protection. The entire SnapGear line is highly resistant to denial-of-service attacks and intrusion attempts, while actively repelling port scans and other common probes.

Virtual private network (VPN)
Whether connecting site-to-site or with mobile users, SnapGear supports all of the most popular types of VPN technology including PPTP, L2TP, GRE, and IPSec. Even the smallest SnapGear security appliances include a robust IPsec VPN solution for securely inter-connecting multiple offices across the public Internet without investing in a dedicated wide area network. The SnapGear VPN supports 3DES, AES, and other popular commercial encryption algorithms.

Intrusion detection and threat mitigation
All SnapGear security appliances include technology to disrupt conventional scanning and network layer denial of service attacks. The SnapGear SG565, SG580 and SG710/710+ include embedded anti-virus gateway services for SMTP, HTTP, POP3, and FTP. The SnapGear SG565, SG580, SG635, and SG710/710+ models also include an active IDS (Intrusion Detection System) powered by Snort™ to proactively monitor network events and alert network personnel when there is suspicious activity. The IDS assists with intrusion mitigation by scanning traffic for known viruses and by profiling traffic bi-directionally to help identify compromised systems.

Employee outbound access URL content filtering
Control and report on how your employees use their Web access. SnapGear appliances include the option for you to subscribe to our leading Webwasher® URL filtering solution (1, 2, or 3-year subscriptions available).

Appliance management (one-to-one and one-to-many)
All SnapGear appliances are easy to securely manage via any Web browser (Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator and others), and also provide an extensive feature-rich command line interface (SSH security on all models apart from SG300). Optional enterprise-class central management and reporting is available by deploying Global Command Center software on a platform of your choosing. Global Command Center software allows network administrators to manage hundreds of SnapGear appliances easily including the management of upgrades, policy changes, and other configuration tasks with the click of a mouse.