WatchGuard XTM 505 Takes Top Honors from SC Magazine

WatchGuard® Technologies, a global leader of business security solutions, today announced that the WatchGuard XTM 505 received top honors from SC Magazine, the leading IT security authority.  The WatchGuard XTM 505 received 5-stars in all the review categories: Features, Ease of Use, Performance, Documentation, Support, Value for Money, and Overall Rating.  Additionally, SC Magazine gave the WatchGuard XTM 505 their prized SC Magazine "Best Buy" award in this group test of UTM security appliances.

WatchGuard XTM 505 appliances deliver a new class of performance-driven security for growing businesses.  The XTM 505 provides 850 Mbps firewall throughput and security features including: "defense-in-depth" firewall functionality with deep packet and stateful packet inspection, coupled with proxy firewalling, intrusion prevention, full HTTPS inspection, VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) protection, web-filtering, anti-spam, anti-virus, Reputation Enabled Defense, and optional Application Control.

Additionally, businesses with remote and mobile workers can utilize the XTM 505's built in SSL VPN capabilities.  By simply dragging and dropping, anyone can set up highly secure VPN tunnels in a matter of minutes.  

The optional WatchGuard Application Control

With the optional WatchGuard Application Control, businesses gain in-depth, granular control over Web 2.0 applications, just as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and hundreds more.  Not only does WatchGuard Application Control protect against the straightway generation of threats that leverage these popular applications, now businesses can rein in how individual employees use such applications, directly from the corporate firewall.

By leveraging more than 2,500 unparalleled application signatures, WatchGuard Application Control enables the firewall to identify and control more than 1,800 applications.  This level of control gives businesses new found freedom to align business needs with IT and security policies.  With it, businesses gain greater efficiencies and improved productivity, and administrators gain unprecedented visibility and control over the applications traversing their networks.  

Lastly, the XTM 505 takes advantage of WatchGuard's cloud-based security service, Reputation Enabled Defense.  With Reputation Enabled Defense businesses and their employees gain an additional layer of protection against viruses, malware, spyware, keyloggers, botnets and other web-based threats, just in case to faster, more productive web surfing experiences.

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