Different Types of Firewalls to Protect your Business Network

 

A firewall is a networking device that acts as a barrier between your private network and the outside world. It helps in blocking the malicious data packets that have been set up to define what traffic can enter your private network.

When it comes protecting your business network, it acts as the first-line defense mechanism for your hardware and software malware, viruses, attackers trying to enter your organization's internal network and systems.

So, are you searching for the right firewall settings that can protect your business network from unauthorized access to a third-party network? Well, Different firewalls have different uses and here are some different types of firewalls that can help you decide which type you should have for your business.

• Packet-Filtering Firewalls: It is one of the oldest firewall types. It is designed to create a check point of the data packets that come through without inspecting the content. It blocks the packet if the information is trying to enter through a suspicious network. This firewall does not impact the network performance of your business.
• Stateful Inspection Firewall: It blocks the incoming traffic from a port, state, and protocol. It acts as a connection between different states to check which network packets should be passed to enter. It provides additional security for your business network as it also enforces more checks for incoming traffic.
• Proxy Firewalls: It helps to operate as an application layer to filter traffic. It protects the network when the client sends a request to access the web page, it intersects the proxy server and forwards the message to the web server acting as a client. It also masks your IP address and limits the traffic type. Proxy firewalls improve the internet experience.
• Next-Generation Firewalls: It acts as additional security because it combines functions of other firewalls. It first checks the payload of the packet instead of focusing solely on predetermined data.

Datagram is one of the leading authorized Fortinet firewall distributors in theUAE. Get in touch with their team to find the best Fortinet firewall in Dubai for your enterprise.

Ubiquiti UniFi Protect focus on user experience

Perhaps the biggest technology story of this decade has been the emergence of the cloud. Applications based in the cloud have led to breakthroughs in user experience, powering Industries from media streaming to social networks.

UniFi Protect was designed from the ground up with a focus on user-experience. It was build keeping in mind something that could operate at scale within a small hardware footprint, providing a low-cost initial investment while offering the remote connectivity convenience of cloud based systems.

Here’s more on its key design points—

1. Usability:The core transcoding framework has been designed to provide rapid searching of any recorded video as shown in the video below. And because we don’t require the camera HW to connect to the cloud, it can provide much faster in-network latency, crucial for future applications including 2-way audio.
2. Scalability:The new cloud key can manage 20+ cameras while simultaneously providing UniFi network management and new hardware later this year will significantly increase camera scalability further. Installation is plug and play with Protect automatically detecting and adding new cameras as they come online.
3. No Subscription Fees:While a single monthly fee might be reasonable for the convenience of a single cloud camera, the proposition for a multi-camera network and multiple subscription fees quickly becomes unreasonable. With UniFi Protect, there are no subscription fees to worry about whatsoever.
4. No Burden on your Internet bandwidth:As resolutions (and bit rates) increase so do their corresponding utilization of Internet upload bandwidth. With multiple cloud cameras constantly uploading to the Internet, this will greatly reduce the effective bandwidth for users on the network. With UniFi Protect, the camera stream terminates at the Cloud Key and thus saves full Internet upload bandwidth for the clients of the network.
5. Completely Private:Cloud cameras forward video to 3rd party servers which means your life is really not private anymore and there is no guarantee that any recordings (including confidential events) will not be seen by others.With UniFi Protect, recorded video is kept private; away from 3rd party servers.

Datagram is one of the leading authorized Ubiquiti distributors in UAE. Get in touch with their team to find the best solutions for your enterprise.