The following table
describes Cloud Edge Cloud Console key features.
Technology components are designed to integrate and optimize performance for gateway
management through the cloud.
Cloud Edge Cloud Console Features
Feature
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Description
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Gateway management
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Centrally manage multiple Cloud Edge gateways through
one cloud console.
Manage intranet security modes for Cloud Edge gateways with
hardware switch chipset.
Manage wireless network access control and manage
wireless client connections for Cloud Edge wireless
gateways.
Use Cloud Edge Cloud Console to
create and manage HA groups. You can create an HA group from two
registered gateways to provide high availability access. If one
gateway is down, then the other gateway will take over and ensure
that the network traffic continues.
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Multilayer Protection
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Cloud Edge
identifies when users and user groups access the network, which port
they used, and what web-based applications were accessed to protect
against network infiltration. Enforcing security policies based on
these multiple layers of identification fight against emerging,
sophisticated threats that may bypass traditional security
solutions.
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Policy management and deployment
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Deploy policies across any number of managed
gateways. Policy management options include:
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Plug–and–Play Deployment
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Send the Cloud Edge
gateway to customer locations without opening the package. Your
customers can unpack the box and follow the instructions in the
provided documentation. After the gateway is manually registered and
is online, the gateway receives your custom security policy
configuration.
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Intelligent dashboard
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View activity occurring within the network and
spanning across one or more gateways. Widgets represent the core
components of the dashboard and contain visual charts and graphs
that allow you to track threats and associate them with accumulated
log data.
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Log analysis and reports
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View and analyze aggregated log and event data about traffic
bandwidth consumption, threat detections, Web 2.0 application usage, web browsing
activity,
and policy enforcement.
Save log query filters as log favorites to
reference later or generate custom reports for further
investigation.
View usage date for policy rules (only available if customer is
running all Cloud Edge 6.0 or
later gateways).
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Quality of Service
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Control bandwidth consumption to reduce network
congestion by controlling communications, blocking unwanted traffic,
and allocating critical traffic or services the appropriate
bandwidth.
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URL filtering
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Configure URL filtering policies to deny or allow
web domain access.
You can configure a policy to scan traffic for specific
URL categories (for example,
Adultand Gambling) to filter traffic. When a user requests a URL, the gateway first looks up the category for that URL and then controls access based on policy settings. |
Application control
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Control more than 3400 application types running
across any port, including applications using specific clients
(Skype, BitTorrent, P2P) or Web 2.0 technologies within websites
(social networking, web mail, streaming media).
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Security profiles
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Perform advanced policy configurations targeting
security profiles.
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User management
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Synchronize user information across gateways.
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User VPN
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User Virtual Private Networking (VPN) extends VPN
functionality to remote users, enabling users to securely
communicate sensitive information to networks and servers over the
IPv4 VPN tunnel, using dial-up (including broadband), LAN, and
mobile connections.
Not available for Cloud Edge gateway models that do
not support VPN.
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Site–to–Site VPN
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A Site–to–Site Virtual Private Network (VPN) allows
offices in multiple fixed locations to establish secure IPv4
connections with each other over a public network such as the
Internet.
Not available for Cloud Edge gateway models that do
not support VPN.
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Log Forwarding Service
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The Log Forwarding Service is a licensable service that enables Cloud Edge Cloud Console to forward logs for licensed gateways to external applications. Managed Service Providers can assign the Log Forwarding Service service plan to a customer. |
Gateway System Status and Events/Logs
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For each gateway, you can view information about the
gateway's system status. You can also view events/logs for network,
system, and VPN events (if available), and for policy enforcement
logs.
VPN events are not displayed for Cloud Edge gateway models that
do not support VPN.
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Gateway Troubleshooting Tools
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You can use ping, traceroute, and ARP to troubleshoot
gateway network IPv4 connectivity issues.
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Integration with Worry Free
Business Security Services
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Cloud Edge
WFBSS
Endpoint Protection integrates with
WFBSS to provide a
compliance check for WFBSS
endpoints who have an out-of-date WFBSS Security
Agent pattern or who do not
have the WFBSS Security
Agent installed.
Cloud Edge can provide
network access control for out-of-compliance endpoints.
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Network access control for suspicious endpoints
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Cloud Edge provides
security services by providing compliance checks for endpoints to
see if C&C callbacks above the configured threshold have been
detected. Cloud Edge can provide
network access control for endpoints who have exceeded the
threshold.
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