Allied Telesis chooses Digital Arts Filtering Solution for Next-Gen Firewalls

For their new series of Next-Generation Firewalls, Allied Telesis has announced that they have selected the web filtering solution from Digital Arts. Digital Arts provides comprehensive, high-accuracy, real-time web filtering through their cloud-based web filtering system. Digital Arts' web filtering system works in conjunction with the leading-edge threat protection technology in the Allied Telesis Next-Generation Firewalls to deliver a high-performance, high-strength and highly configurable security solution.

The cybersecurity landscape is constantly evolving. Hackers are no longer lone opportunists trying to create mischief, but instead are organized criminals seeking serious financial returns, and/or carrying out well-funded strategic attacks. Their Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are sophisticated, tailored attacks that can easily defeat traditional defences. Dealing with these threats requires an integrated, multifaceted solution with the insight to correlate seemingly unrelated behavioural changes in the network. Allied Telesis specialized hardware provides a powerful engine, within which Digital Arts' industry-leading, web content filtering capabilities can combine with other industry-leading components to deliver the capabilities required to combat today's sophisticated cybercriminals.

Allied Telesis has a long track record in information security – having developed security appliances for more than 20 years. As one of the first vendors to create Virtual Private Network (VPN) products, Allied Telesis helped to facilitate the shift to secure Wide Area Network (WAN) networking across the Internet. The new Allied Telesis Next-Generation Firewalls are a revolution for the organization and the industry, and raise internal and external threat protection and network resource optimization to a whole new level, to provide access to then current revolutions in Internet usage – the "Internet of Things" and "Applications as a Service".

"The accuracy and coverage provided by Digital Arts web filtering clearly put it ahead of the other options competing for the web filtering role in our solution. Real-time content filtering is an essential element of our Next-Generation Firewalls. The right candidate for inclusion in our system also needed to deliver performance and manageability. Digital Arts contributes all of this, and more. With this component inside our Next-Generation Firewalls, we know that we have industry-leading technology that delivers comprehensive, high-accuracy protection that is easy to configure," said Graham Walker, Senior Product Manager, Allied Telesis.

With new threats – including malicious sites, security exploits and potential sources of Internet abuse – emerging constantly, any security system must be dynamic, forever keeping on top of the latest threats. Digital Arts' industry-leading content filtering database is updated on an ongoing basis, allowing solution providers to keep their users fully protected. Digital Arts' web filtering system contains web site information for several major languages in approximately 100 web content categories, including sites optimized for smartphone and protection against malware-based information theft. Their database covers over 3 billion pieces of web content, providing effective defence against harmful sites with an accuracy that is unmatched.

With functionality built from the ground up to operate in the modern data security environment – including application-based inspection, high-throughput threat prevention, single pane of glass management, and integration with leading-edge IP reputation and anti-malware services the Allied Telesis Next-Generation Firewalls deliver a fiercely competitive solution to the market.