WatchGuard Firebox M290 Firewall Appliance w/ 1-Year Basic Security Suite (WGM29000701)

WatchGuard WGM29000701 Firebox M290 Network Firewall

The WatchGuard Firebox M290 Firewall Appliance is specifically engineered to defend all types of small businesses against attacks that are no less fierce than those targeting larger organisations. The unique product architecture enables small and midsize businesses to leverage best-in-class security services – from URL filtering and intrusion prevention to application control and ransomware prevention, minus the cost and complexity of multiple single-point solutions.

Key Features

• Includes a one (1) year Basic Security licence subscription.
• Up to 5.8 Gbps firewall throughput – turn on all additional security services and still see up to 1.18 Gbps throughput.
• Latest generation multi-core processors provide the power to run all security scanning engines in parallel without causing performance bottlenecks.
• Eight (8) 1GbE Ethernet ports support high-speed LAN backbone infrastructures & Gigabit WAN connections.
• Ideal for scenarios with up to 75 users.
• Simple to deploy and easy to manage.

WatchGuard Basic Security Suite

WatchGuard Basic Security Suite turns your WatchGuard Firewall appliance into a comprehensive Unified Threat Management solution. This Basic Security Suite includes powerful UTM security subscriptions that boost defences in critical attack areas for maximum network protection. At an exceptional value, the suite includes subscriptions to Application Control, SpamBlocker, Reputation Enabled Defence, WebBlocker, Gateway AntiVirus, Network Discovery, and Intrusion Prevention Service, plus LiveSecurity Service for support and maintenance.

Key Features

Standard Support:

Your WatchGuard appliance may already include a subscription to WatchGuard’s groundbreaking Standard Support, which you activate online when you register your product. Receive web or phoned-based 24×7 support with an unlimited number of support cases per annual subscription. Standard support gives you targeted response times: 4 hours for critical/high cases, 8 hours for medium and 24 hours for low priority issues.

Intrusion Prevention Service:

Continually updated signatures scan traffic on all major protocols, providing real-time protection against network threats, including spyware, SQL injections, cross-site scripting, and buffer overflows.

Application Control:

Allow, block, or restrict access to applications based on a user’s department, job function, and time of day. It’s never been easier to decide who, what, when, where, why and how applications are used on your network. You will have the power to limit application usage, and keep unproductive, inappropriate, and dangerous applications off your network.

WebBlocker:

In addition to automatically blocking known malicious sites, WatchGuard WebBlocker delivers granular content and URL filtering tools to block inappropriate content, conserve network bandwidth, and increase employee productivity. A powerful and easy-to-use solution for controlling and monitoring web activity across your entire organisation.

SpamBlocker:

Real-time, continuous, and highly reliable protection from spam and phishing attempts. WatchGuard spamBlocker is so fast and effective, it can review up to 4 billion messages per day, while providing effective protection regardless of the language, format, or content of the message. Get real-time, continuous, and highly reliable protection from spam and phishing attempts.

Gateway AntiVirus:

Leverage WatchGuard’s continuously updated signatures to identify and block in real time, known spyware, viruses, trojans, worms, rogue-ware and blended threats – including new variants of known viruses. At the same time, heuristic analysis tracks down suspicious data constructions and actions to make sure unknown viruses don’t slip by.

Reputation Enabled Defence:

A powerful, cloud-based web reputation service that aggregates data from multiple feeds to provide real-time protection from malicious sites and botnets, while dramatically improving web processing overhead.

Network Discovery:

This service generates a visual map of all nodes on your network, making it easy to see where you may be at risk. It helps ensure that only authorised devices are connected while detecting all open ports and protocols.

Stay Ahead of Evolving Threats

The M290 is part of WatchGuard’s award-winning Firebox security platform. The platform not only provides the most complete suite of unified security controls on the market today, it has consistently been the first to offer solutions for addressing new and evolving network threats including advanced malware and ransomware. The unique product architecture enables small and midsize businesses to leverage best-in-class security services – from URL filtering and intrusion prevention to application control and ransomware prevention, minus the cost and complexity of multiple single-point solutions.

Unified Security Defeats Complexity

Cross-platform integration is essential to deploying a Unified Security Platform. Direct Firebox and AuthPoint integration enables multi-factor authentication through the Firebox itself, eliminating the need for a separate RADIUS server and ensuring VPN access is securely extended to your users.

A Cloud’s-Eye View of Your Entire Network

WatchGuard Cloud provides full visibility into your network so that you can make timely, informed, and effective decisions about your network security anywhere, anytime. The platform displays 100+ dashboards and reports that allow you to quickly see high-level trends and anomalies, then drill down into detailed information on each.

Expansion Modules For Greater Port Density

The M290 provides an empty bay that can be used to add network modules (sold separately) to define a configuration that meet the needs of almost any network configuration. It has an open module bay for expansion modules, with options for four (4) 1GbE copper, four (4) 1Gbps SFP, two (2) 1Gbps SFP+, or four (4) multi-speed ports. Network modularity empowers IT pros to customise the port configuration to meet their needs, while ensuring the flexibility to adapt the firewall as their network evolves.

Quick and Simple Deployment

SMBs usually have smaller, less technical staff, which can make network expansion challenging. With RapidDeploy – a powerful, Cloud-based deployment and configuration tool that comes standard with WatchGuard Firebox appliances – all you have to do is power up the appliance at a remote site and connect it to the internet. The appliance “phones home” and downloads the correct configuration files from the Cloud. Just like that.

Specifications

Standard Warranty: 1-Year