Internet Control Gateway

Specifications

INTRODUCTION

Internet Control Gateway performs the duty of secure content management and application control for enterprise intranet-internet usage at OSI model application layer and above. Its technology break through brings intelligence into network infrastructure, data flow are managed by policies based on user, service, application, content, etc. Based on purpose-built multi-core IA platform and patented technologies like “Nonlinear Policy Engine”, “Dynamic Connection Purge”, NS-ICG product line achieves the best combination of high packet throughput, function flexibility and intensive content management.

BUSINESS VALUE

1. Prevent and Block Malicious Network Activity

- Detect and pin-point network/traffic anomaly, take proactive action in real time.

- Block access to sites associated with spyware, phishing and malicious mobile code.

- Beef up user and end-station security through Network Access Control (NAC).

- Block communications initiated by malwares like Trojan, Spyware and Virus.

2. Manage User Network Activity and Promote Employee Productivity

- Provide comprehensive monitoring and analysis to evaluate employee productivity loss due to non work-related network activities.

- Identify and control 20 categories, over 600 active applications, including P2P download, IM, Streaming media, SNS, online Gaming, brokerage and trading.

- Manage based on user, activity, time slots, duration, byte quota and content.

3. Protect confidential information and Audit outgoing messages

- Inspect and record business communications, including web, email, IM, etc. for compliance and governance auditing.

- Inspect and record files transferred through FTP, HTTP, MSN,Skype,Fetion, QQ, and Email.

- Alert and Block inappropriate or unauthorized outgoing information, messages and file transferring to reduce the risk of data loss and to manage compliance.

4. Manage Bandwidth and Safeguard Business-Critical Applications

- Manage application bandwidth precisely, eliminate or cut-back non work-related network traffic, especially bandwidth intensive applications like P2P, streaming media, internet radio & TV, personal network storage, etc.

- Provide prioritized multi-level virtual traffic tunnel scheme to perform application layer traffic policing and shaping.

- Reserve bandwidth for business-critical application or particular conversation.

- Share or borrow bandwidth resources among user groups as configured to optimize bandwidth usage and avoid starvation.