Celestix MSA security appliances deliver a combination of performance, reliability, ease of use, comprehensive support and low price for the deployment of Microsoft’s ISA server firewall that is unmatched in the industry. This has made the Celestix MSA family the runaway market leader in ISA server appliances.

Each appliance offers a single, integrated solution and features:

• Microsoft ISA Server 2006
• Seamless integration with Microsoft IT infrastructure
• Wide range of performance models
• Fully configured ready to use out of the box
• Web GUI for easy configuration and management
• LCD Front panel and jog dial for ease of configuration and real time status display
• One button system recovery to last good version or factory defaults
• Install a complete Firewall, VPN and caching solution in less than 15 minutes
• Network software update service
• High reliability features: redundancy, failover, load balancing
• Fully supported by Celestix. A single point of contact for any service issue
• Richest feature set and highest performance available at the price

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MSA Network Diagram

Designed for:

• The full range of enterprise network security deployments
• Scalability to meet continually increasing network requirements
• Maximum availability
• Seamless network and Active Directory integration
• Application publishing (reverse proxy)
• Internet proxy
• VPN gateway

MSA Series overview

License Editions

[i] Workgroup Edition

Workgroup edition is intended for organizations with a small number of protected LAN’s. It is ideal for a company that wants to support up to 100 remote VPN users as well as web application publishing while simultaneously protecting a local network with a state of the art third generation application firewall. Workgroup edition supports a two server Active/Passive failover configuration for high reliability.

[s] Standard Edition

Standard Edition offers the same features as Workgroup Edition but extends the number of VPN connections to 1,000.

[b] Branch Office Edition

Branch office edition enhances the common features of ISA Server 2006 with centralized management of multiple branch office sites. Branch office edition supports up to 100 VPN users. High Availability is supported with Active/ Active failover and Network Load Balancing between two servers. Centralized management allows users to easily enforce a common firewall policy and compliance auditing throughout the enterprise. At least one system within the enterprise must be running ISA Configuration Storage Server (CSS), this system can be either a ISA Enterprise Edition server or the Celestix MSA2000c configuration storage server.

[e] Enterprise Edition

Enterprise Edition is the full featured version of ISA Server 2006 for large enterprise users. It offers unlimited VPN connections and can support clusters of up to 32 servers with full active/active fail over and network load balancing between all servers.

Plug In Software for Celestix MSA

All MSA appliances can be upgraded with additional plug in software functions.

Recommended upgrades:

Websense Security Suite

Built on an enterprise-class Internet filtering platform, Websense Enterprise helps companies to improve employee productivity, conserve bandwidth, and mitigate security risks. Websense Enterprise integrated with MSA allows businesses to detect and manage employee access to the Internet and network applications such as Instant Messaging and Peer-to-Peer. Websense Enterprise leverages the packet-capturing capabilities of MSA allowing organizations to scale reliably as transaction volumes increase.

Kaspersky® Anti-Virus

Kaspersky® Anti-Virus for Microsoft ISA Server is a tightly integrated solution that protects all incoming HTTP and FTP traffic on the local network. The application offers protection not only from viruses, but also from potentially harmful programs. The solution is based on the Kaspersky Anti-Virus Engine, which provides one of the highest detection rates of malicious programs in the world.