Nokia Enhances Security Portfolio with IP390
By Farzaneh Yassini, PRODUCT MARKETING MANAGER - NOKIA

Appliances are the dominant approach for implementing network security services, such as firewall, virtual private network and intrusion detection/prevention capabilities. This is primarily because appliances provide greater ease of use and lower total cost of ownership (TCO) benefits compared to software solutions deployed on standard Intel-based application servers. The essential requirements for such a foundation include an appliance architecture that combines:

• Best-of-breed application software.
• Proven networking services.
• Network-centric configuration, administration and management.
• Network-specific, purpose-built hardware.

Understanding Nokia Appliance Manager

Appliance Manager enables centralized and scalable monitoring, fault management and reporting for medium and large enterprises or service providers with multiple Nokia Security appliances and Check Point applications. The solution offers an elegant approach for centrally managing multiple IP Security appliances distributed throughout an enterprise, delivering critical SNMP-based monitoring for health, faults, and performance. Appliance Manager delivers extensive visibility into how Nokia Security Appliances are performing over the network, offering detailed information about traffic patterns, bandwidth consumption, CPU, disk and memory utilization and other performance trends that IT can use to help maximize network resources.

Nokia IP390

Nokia IP390 Security Platform is a highly versatile, easy to install and easy to manage security appliance running Check Point VPN-1. Nokia IP390 provides the intuitive out-of-box experience needed by medium businesses, but also provides the sophisticated management and security large businesses need for remote campuses, large branch offices and internal network segmentation. When compared to competitive systems costing more than twice as much, Nokia IP390 running the Check Point VPN-1 Pro firewall application provides both higher firewall performance and superior security, manageability, and port density.