ZyXEL Communications 1050 manual Application Patrol to Manage the Use of IM/P2P Applications

Application Patrol to Manage the Use of IM/P2P Applications

The ZyWALL 1050 is specially crafted to manage the use of IM/P2P applications in modern networking environments without hassle. Armed with AppPatrol, a central dashboard for managing various types of IM/P2P applications, security staff can easily create fine-grained access policies based on the ever- changing security needs: identifying and restricting different access levels of prevailing IM/P2P protocols, restricting time of access for different groups of users, enforcing bandwidth quota against certain types of P2P application and prioritizing VoIP traffics to ensure the best call quality over slow WAN ISP links.

Altogether, the ZyWALL 1050 is an ideal solution to solve the dilemma in terms of productivity and security.

User-Aware Policy Engine Enables Access Granularity

In addition to the basic access control capabilities, the intelligent user-aware policy engine on the ZyWALL 1050 is designed to make packet-forwarding decisions based on multiple criteria (such as user ID, user group, time of access and network quota, etc.). Furthermore, the security staff can apply access policies against a variety of security features such as VPN, Content Filter and Application Patrol.

In conjunction with VLAN and custom security zones, corporate security policies can be effectively enforced to prevent unauthorized access to the network resources.

Bandwidth Management Ensures Quality of Service

The ZyWALL 1050 provides bandwidth management features for traffic prioritization to guarantee or restrict bandwidth usage per interface/protocol. Security staff can allocate bandwidth for a variety of applications or computer hosts on the corporate network, regardless of the direction of connection. For example, it’s possible to assign higher priority and larger bandwidth to time-critical applications such as VoIP and video conferencing for quality transmission services. In addition, the ZyWALL 1050 allows you to keep track of bandwidth usage with comprehensive statistical reports.

VoIP Security: Protecting the Converged Networks

Attracted by the benefits, more and more businesses are deploying VoIP applications on their networks. Along with the transition to VoIP also comes with security risks and voice quality issues.

As a VoIP-friendly firewall, the ZyWALL 1050 reduces the security risks associated with the adoption of VoIP by offering SIP/H.323 ALG features to dynamically open only the required ports during VoIP calls; once a call is complete, the opened ports are automatically closed to prevent port sniffing. The IDP feature can detect and prevent attacks usually associated with VoIP deployments. Ultimately, by establishing VoIP traffics over VPNs with traffic prioritization, security staff can minimize security breaches while optimizing call quality over the existing ISP links.

High Availability Features Guarantee Non-Stop Operations for Mission-Critical Applications

With the High Availability features, the ZyWALL 1050 helps the security staff to easily set up a highly reliable and secure network infrastructure for your business. To minimize the impact of single-point failures, the ZyWALL 1050 supports device HA (High Availability) to assure network availability should any device failure happen.

On the WAN side, the ZyWALL 1050 can connect multiple ISP links to ensure Internet availability in case a single ISP link becomes unreliable. The multiple- WAN load-balancing feature can also optimize the bandwidth usage over each ISP link.