Now with Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010

Celestix MSA™ security appliances deliver Microsoft’s Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 for unmatched multi-threat protection with industry-leading ease of use and value. Performance, reliability, as well as ease of deployment and management backed by expert Celestix customer support have made MSA the world’s best-selling Microsoft security appliances.

Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 (TMG)

Superior security gateway functionality
Microsoft’s Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 (TMG) places fortified layers of best-in-class security functions throughout your network to block, detect, and thwart attacks from beyond the edge, at the edge, and inside your network.

• Web (URL) filtering blocks users from visiting infected websites and lets administrators control users’ access to enforce corporate Web policies.
• Web anti-virus/anti-malware security functions inspect files, scripts and all other forms of portable code to block sophisticated Web-based attacks
• Advanced application-layer firewall secures your network with layer 1-7 stateful packet inspection
• HTTPS inspection examines encrypted traffic to detect and stop encrypted malware
• Network Inspection (intrusion detection/prevention) thwarts suspicious activity inside the firewall
• Reverse proxy permits secure application publishing
• Forward proxy permits secure Web browsing
• Caching speeds Web traffic and conserves network bandwidth
• IPSec VPN delivers secure remote user access and site-to-site connectivity
• Windows 64-bit Server 2008 R2 operating system

Each appliance offers a single, integrated solution that features:

• Microsoft Forefront Management Gateway 2010
• Complete composite security solution in less than 15 minutes
• 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
• Front panel display and jog dial for easy configuration and real time status display
• One button system recovery to last good version or factory defaults
• On-box backup
• Network software update service
• High availability and reliability features: redundancy, failover, load balancing
• Fully supported by Celestix. A single point of contact for all hardware and software service issues
• Richest feature set and highest performance available at the price

Celestix MSA Series Voted ISA.org Readers' Choice Award Celestix MSA Series was selected the winner in the Hardware Appliances category of the ISAserver.org Readers' Choice awards

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

Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 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 TMG 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 MSA3200c 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.

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