D-Link DFL-860E NetDefend UTM Firewall For SMB Blocks Viruses, Hackers and Harmful Content

SYDNEY, Aust. -- April 18, 2011

-- D-Link Australia & New Zealand, the end-to-end networking solutions provider for business and consumers, today introduced the DFL-860E NetDefend™ Unified Threat Management (UTM) Firewall, providing small to mid-sized businesses with comprehensive defence against virus attacks, unauthorised intrusions and harmful content.

D-Link's DFL-860E is designed to protect small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) from a wide variety of network threats. The UTM firewall provides integrated policy-based routing, Network Address Translation, Virtual Private Network (VPN), proactive network security, Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), Web Content Filtering, Anti-Virus Protection, traffic load balancing and bandwidth management in one rack-mountable chassis.

The firewall's hardware is designed to increase performance, and a web surfing control database contains millions of URLs for Web Content Filtering. Real-time IPS, anti-virus and URL database update services protect the network from application exploits, network worms, malicious code attacks, and provide everything needed to manage employee Internet access behaviour.

"Our latest UTM firewall for SMBs provides enterprise-class integrated Internet security and access control at a price that small to mid-sized businesses can afford," said Maurice Famularo, Marketing Director, D-Link Australia & New Zealand. "It offers all the features of our enterprise-class UTM firewalls, including hardware accelerators to handle IPS and anti-virus scanning functions without degrading firewall and VPN performance."

Additionally, network management features include Remote Management, Bandwidth Control Policies, URL/Keyword Blocking, Access Policies and SNMP. For network monitoring, the firewall supports e-mail alerts, system log, consistency checks and real-time statistics.

Maintaining an effective defence requires that all three databases used by the UTM firewall are kept up to date. To provide a robust defence, D-Link offers optional 12-month NetDefend Firewall UTM Services subscriptions which include distinct NetDefend service updates for IPS, Anti-Virus and Web Content Filtering (three-month trials are available).

NetDefend UTM firewalls use component-based IPS signatures to recognise and protect against known and unknown attacks and which address critical aspects of a potential attack including payload, NOP sled, infection and exploits. The DFL-860E constantly optimises IPS signatures via the D-Link Auto-Signature Sensor System to ensure the highest ratio of detection accuracy and the lowest ratio of false positives.

Using constantly updated anti-virus signatures from respected partner, Kaspersky Labs, viruses and malware can be effectively blocked before they reach connected computers or mobile devices.

Web Content Filtering helps monitor, manage and control employee Internet usage and access. The UTM firewall uses highly granular policies and explicit black and white lists to control different website categories for any combination of users, interfaces and IP networks. It can also actively identify and strip out malicious Java applets, JavaScripts/VBScripts, ActiveX objects and cookies.

The NetDefend UTM firewall offers an integrated VPN Client and Server to support almost any required VPN policy and hardware-based VPN engines to support and manage a large number of VPN connections.

Price and Availability

The D-Link DFL-860E NetDefend™ UTM Firewall is available now with recommended retail prices of AU$1065 inc. GST and NZ$1489 inc. GST.

12-month IPS, Anti-Virus or Web Content Filtering update subscriptions are available for AU$435 inc. GST and NZ$599 inc. GST each.

For more information, see D-Link's websites at www.dlink.com.au and www.dlink.co.nz and the NetDefend Centre at http://security.dlink.com.tw.

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About D-Link

D-Link is the global leader in connectivity for small, medium and large enterprise business networking. The company is an award-winning designer, developer and manufacturer of networking, broadband, digital electronics, voice, data and video communications solutions for the digital home, Small Office/Home Office (SOHO), Small to Medium Business (SMB), and Workgroup to Enterprise environments. With millions of networking and connectivity products manufactured and shipped, D-Link is a dominant market participant and price/performance leader in the networking and communications market.

D-Link Australia and New Zealand headquarters are located at Building A, Level 3, 11 Talavera Road, North Ryde, NSW, 2113, Sydney Australia. Phone (02) 8899 1800; Fax (02) 8899 1868; Internet www.dlink.com.au / www.dlink.co.nz; email marketing@dlink.com.au.