WatchGuard has unveiled appliance software updates claiming that it will that will give a boost to its Firebox X e-Series product family that is geared toward fortifying reliability and enhancing ease of use.
According to the firewall appliances and unified threat management (UTM) solutions provider, customers of WatchGuard’s Firebox X Core and Peak security appliances will benefit from the release of Fireware 9.1, providing features such as a spam quarantine, a new POP3 proxy, anti-virus scanning, and inbound server load balancing.
Customers of the WatchGuard Firebox X Edge e-Series line of UTM network appliances will benefit from the release of the Edge 8.6 appliance software, providing a host of upgrades including such features as enhanced wireless security, WAN failover to a serial modem, PPTP remote user support, SMTP support, and enhanced centralized management and reporting.
“Through these latest updates, WatchGuard customers will benefit by gaining access to new features aimed at improving overall performance, increasing reliability while enhancing the ease of use in our products’ management capabilities. WatchGuard will continue to deliver products aimed at giving our customers strong, reliable UTM security appliances,” said Joe Wang, CEO of WatchGuard Technologies.
Firebox X Edge appliances are aimed at businesses with up to 50 users, and are ideal for branch offices, as well as single-site businesses.
WatchGuard Firebox X Edge e-Series UTM security appliances, which are available through reseller channels in the US now, start at 480.00 (US MSRP) for the wired model and 580.00 (US MSRP) for the wireless version. UTM bundles for the Edge start at .00.
WatchGuard Firebox X Core e-Series appliances with Fireware 9.1 start at 1,459.00 (US MSRP). UTM bundles for Core appliances start at 1999.00. WatchGuard Firebox X Peak e-Series UTM security appliances start at 5,900.00 (US MSRP). UTM bundles for Peak appliances start at 9,299.00 (US MSRP).
These products will be available through reseller channels in the US starting in September. |
