D-Link NetDefend Firewall family certified for IPSec 1.2 Enhanced by ICSA Labs

D-Link International, the end-to-end networking solutions provider for consumers and businesses, announced today the certification of the D-Link NetDefend Firewall series for IPSec 1.2 Enhanced by ICSA Labs.

ICSA Labs Firewall and IPSec certifications are recognised worldwide as the benchmark for the network security industry. D-Link's achievement of the latest ICSA Labs IPSec 1.2 Enhanced certification demonstrates D-Link's ongoing commitment in network security.

In addition to the IPSec certification, D-Link's appliances, running NetDefendOS security operating system, have also obtained the highest level of ICSA Labs' Firewall 4.1 Corporate certification.

The products have undergone stringent testing criteria to achieve IPSec VPN certification, which requires the products to pass interoperability testing with all other certified devices, and the rigorous and thorough testing in encryption, authentication, data integrity and multiple concurrent IPSec tunnels with a single IPSec peer.

D-Link's NetDefend Firewall provides comprehensive security features suitable for deployment within dedicated integrated platform, NetDefendOS which integrates virtual private network (VPN) seamlessly, intrusion detection and prevention (IDP/IPS), gateway anti-virus, anti-spam filtering, Web content filtering, traffic management, high availability, and D-Link's innovative end-point security technology - ZoneDefense.

By delivering high quality products with extended security features, D-Link offers small and medium organisations (SMBs), and enterprises, unparalleled price/performance with high quality security features to correspond rapid evolving IT challenge.

Besides passing the latest and strictest IPSec certification version 1.2 Enhanced of ICSA Labs, the D-Link NetDefend Firewall Family has also passed a series of other rigorous tests, including Internet Key Exchange (IKE), Encapsulation Security, robust cryptography algorithm, authentication using certificates, system logging, among many others, and earned the praise from ICSA Labs' Network Security Labs for the unique features in the Web administration interface, which allow administrators to safely make changes to the firewall's configuration remotely.

D-Link's NetDefend Firewalls are ideal for SMBs, enterprises and campus network environments. The NetDefend Firewall series include:

DFL-210/DFL-260: Suitable for small office or corporate branch office environments with up to 50 employees, the DFL-210/260 offers firewall performance of up to 80Mbps and VPN throughput of up to 25Mbps, 100 VPN tunnels, dual line failover, and is equipped with one WAN, one DMZ and four LAN interfaces. In addition, DFL-260 supports cutting-edge UTM functionality with stream-based anti-virus inspection and dynamic Web content filtering.

DFL-800/DFL-860: Suitable for small-scale companies with up to 150 employees, the DFL-800/860 offers firewall performance of up to 150Mbps and VPN throughput of up to 60Mbps, 300 VPN tunnels, multiple WAN link failover, and is equipped with two WAN, one DMZ, and seven LAN interfaces. In addition, DFL-860 supports cutting-edge UTM functionality with stream-based anti-virus inspection and dynamic Web content filtering.

DFL-1600: Suitable for mid-sized companies with up to 300 employees, the DFL-1600 offers firewall performance of up to 320Mbps and VPN throughput of up to 120Mbps, 1200 VPN tunnels, multiple WAN link failover, and is equipped with six Gigabit definable network interfaces.

DFL-2500: Suitable for large enterprise environments, campuses, and government institutes with up to 600 employees, the DFL-2500 offers firewall performance of up to 600Mbps and VPN throughput of up to 300Mbps, 2500 IPSec VPN tunnels, multiple WAN link failover, and is equipped with eight Gigabit definable network interfaces.