WatchGuard Announces Updates to Firebox X Security Appliance Family (2007-08-31)
WatchGuard® Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of firewall appliances and unified threat management (UTM) solutions, announced today that it has released appliance software updates that will give a boost to its Firebox® X e-Series product family, geared toward fortifying reliability and enhancing ease of use. Customers of WatchGuard’s Firebox® X Core™ and Peak™ security appliances will benefit from the release of Fireware® 9.1, providing features such as a spam quarantine, a new POP3 proxy, anti-virus scanning, and inbound server load balancing. Customers of the WatchGuard Firebox X Edge e-Series line of UTM network appliances will benefit from the release of the Edge 8.6 appliance software, providing a host of upgrades – including such features as enhanced wireless security, WAN failover to a serial modem, PPTP remote user support, SMTP support, and improved centralised management and reporting.
