Celestix combines Microsoft ISA Server 2006, hardened Windows operating system with Celestix hardware design and managed by the intuitive Web UI. The end result is a fully integrated and out-of-box next-generation enterprise firewall, virtual private network (VPN), and Web cache solution with a full-featured bandwidth manager included as standard.
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Key Features
- Microsoft ISA Server 2006
- Appliance form factor
- Enhanced security architecture with application layer filtering
- Supports all industry standard protocols
- Web GUI for remote management
- LCD front panel for easy network configuration and status display
- One button system recovery to factory default and last known good version
- Install firewall, VPN and caching solution in less than 15 minutes
- Hardened Microsoft Windows Server 2003
- True Gigabit network throughput
- PCI-Express architecture
- Update services
Bandwidth Management for MSA
FairShare, a full-featured bandwidth manager now included as a standard feature on MSA. It allows you to control the mix traffic which leaves or enters your corporate networks and remote sites. You can limit and guarantee bandwidth, give priority, provide minimum latency, mark for DiffServ and 802.1p, and apply other policies to users, groups of users, applications, and destinations. Policies can be set by time of day or network load levels.
New Features available in ISA Server 2006 that were not available in ISA 2004 or 2000
- Share Point Portal Server Publishing wizard - ISA 2006 is designed to provide secure remote access to Share Point Portal Servers.
- Full support for Exchange Server 2007 - ISA 2006 Exchange Server Web Publishing Wizard includes a number of improvements that makes publishing Exchange easier than ever.
- Forms-based Authentication - ISA 2006 allows you to use forms-based authentication for any type of Web publishing scenario.
- Single Sign-on - If multiple Web sites belong to the same domain, and are published by the same Web listener, then users will not be required to reauthenticate and cached credentials are used.
- Branch office VPN connectivity Wizard - ISA 2006 now has a branch office deployment wizard, that enables the administrator to create a simple answer file that allows a non-technical user to plug a branch office ISA firewall device and run the answer file from a simple link.
- Enhanced Delegation of Authentication support - ISA 2006 enhances support for authentication delegation by enabling credentials to be delegated as Kerberos, Integrated, Negotiate or basic.
- Flood Resiliency - ISA 2006 includes built in mechanism to prevent exhaustion of non-paged pool memory so that even when under heavy denial of service type worm or DNS flood attacks, the ISA 2006 firewall will be able to stand up.
- Enhanced remediation during attack - ISA 2006 has updated stateful packet inspection and IDS/IPS functionality.
- Support for LDAP authentication - This means that an ISA Server 2006 can authenticate to an Active Directory without needing to be a member of the domain).
- BITS caching - ISA Server 2006 provides the caching mechanism for data received through BITS. Any cache rule that you create can be enabled to cache BITS data).
- Web Publishing load balancing - ISA 2006 automatically balances request streams among ISA array members.
- Support for wildcard certificates on the published Web Server - ISA 2006 allows the use a wildcard certificate on the published Web server.
- Ability to assign multiple certificates to a single Web listener - ISA 2006 lets you bind multiple certificates to the same Web listener and assign that Web listener to multiple Web Publishing Rules
- HTTP compression - ISA 2006 performs HTTP compression that reduces file size by using algorithms to eliminate redundant data during transmission of HTTP packets.
- Quality of Service - A new packet prioritization functionality is incorporated into ISA 2006, which scans the URL or domain and assigns a packet priority using Diffserv bits.
- Integrated support for Password changes on logon form - ISA 2006 adds the ability for a user to change his password right in the log on form with no special configuration.
- Improved Alerting - ISA 2006 adds a number of new alerts that help information the ISA administrator of configuration issues, certificate issue, security issues, and threat triggers.
Add on Solutions for MSA
Content Filtering for MSA
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 organisations to scale reliably as transaction
volumes increase.
Anti Virus for MSA
Kaspersky Anti Virus
Kaspersky AntiVirus for Microsoft ISA 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.
MSA Models Available
MSA2000 Security Appliance
- Intel Celeron D (2.66GHz) processor
- 1GB DDR2 SDRAM 256KB L2 Cache
- 533MHz frontside bus
MSA3000 Security Appliance
- Intel Pentium 4 (3.00GHz) processor
- 2GB DDR2 SDRAM 2MB L2 Cache
- 800MHz frontside bus
MSA4000 Security Appliance
- Intel Pentium D Dual Core (3.00GHz) processor
- 2GB DDR2 SDRAM 2x2MB L2 Cache
- 800MHz frontside bus
- Crypto Accelerator
MSA5000 Security Appliance
- Intel Core 2 Duo (2.13GHz) processor
- 3GB DDR2 SDRAM 4MB L2 Cache
- 1066MHz frontside bus
- Crypto Accelerator
MSA6000 Security Appliance
- Intel Core 2 Duo (2.4GHz) processor
- 3GB DDR2 SDRAM 4MB L2 Cache
- 1066MHz frontside bus
- Crypto Accelerator
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