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WatchGuard Technologies Announces New Small Business Security Appliance

By Deepika Mala
TMCnet Contributor

Small businesses are increasingly becoming targets of hackers and sophisticated cyber attacks.

As a solution to this very problem, WatchGuard Technologies (News - Alert), a company specializing in business security solutions, has recently released a new small business security appliance called the WatchGuard XTM 330. 

Easy to use and manage, the newly announced WatchGuard XTM 330 is considered ideal for businesses with 30 to 50 users and provides advanced network protection in an all-in-one rack-mount gateway security appliance.

In a release, Tim Helming, Director of Product Management at WatchGuard Technologies, said, "The WatchGuard XTM 330 is the ideal solution for small organizations. Now businesses with 50 employees can have the same type of security and protection that Fortune 1000 enterprises, financial institutions and government agencies use to keep out spyware, malware and other web threats."

Officials said that the XTM 330 sports the latest security services from WatchGuard to meet any number of business needs. 

Customers, in addition to next-generation firewall and intrusion prevention capabilities, can choose to add Application Control, Gateway (News - Alert) Anti-virus, WebBlocker, spamBlocker and WatchGuard's context-aware, cloud-based security service, Reputation Enabled Defense.

Taking advantage of cutting-edge innovations from WatchGuard, the WatchGuard XTM 330 helps small businesses to provide complete protection, even for popular devices that employees bring into the office.

Featuring additional networking and VPN features, the appliance allows for remote access, which is ideal for small businesses with remote or mobile workers. It also supports clientless single sign-on, which helps to ensure simple and accurate authentication for user and group-based policies.

The appliance’s advanced management and logging features provide management with easy to use reports, giving small businesses new insights as to web and application usage, as well as remediation abilities to enforce business and IT policies.

Helming concludes, "No other security appliance, UTM or next-generation firewall offers as much capability and firewall throughput in this price class than the WatchGuard XTM 330. For small businesses, this is a redefining moment to combat cyber-attacks and Internet criminals."

In related news, WatchGuard Technologies has released its latest security operating system for the XTM line of unified threat management appliances.