3com FIREWALL FIBER PCI CARD hardware firewall

Distributed Firewall Hardware for Servers and Desktops
The 3Com® Firewall Fiber PCI Card with 100 LAN works with our 3Com Embedded Firewall Policy Server or Starter Policy Server (required and sold separately) to extend tamper-resistant firewall filtering and auditing capabilities across your enterprise—both inside and outside the network perimeter.

These centrally managed firewall cards protect your servers and desktops with superior tamper-resistance that software-only firewalls can't match. Each firewall card has an onboard RISC processor that enforces security transparently to end users, local applications, and operating systems—making it practically impervious to Internet attacks, end user actions, or malicious code.

Equally important, each firewall card can be configured and managed only through an authenticated 3Com Embedded Firewall Policy Server. Even if a protected system is corrupted, the firewall card prevents its host from being used as a launching pad for further invasion into the network.

Because optical data transmissions don't create electrical resistance or emit radio waves, fiber-optic cabling delivers significantly higher throughputs and shielding from traffic snooping than copper wiring. This fiber-compatible PCI-bus card is ideal for locations exposed to electrical interference or for time-sensitive converged transmissions, such as voice and video.

The 3Com Firewall Fiber PCI Card plugs into a standard PCI slot, replacing the conventional 100BASE-FX LAN connection. In Windows 2003, 2000, or XP environments, it offloads TCP and security processing for improved system performance. It's easy to expand network security in economical increments by simply installing firewall cards on a system-by-system basis, as needed. Once the firewall cards are installed, use the policy server to configure and push security policies to firewall-enabled systems across the network.
Provides superior resistance to malicious code, hostile users, unauthorized access, and disabling; fiber-compatible cards are inherently shielded from electrical interference and snooping

Facilitates assigning security by group role or function and enables immediate response to detected network attacks

Receives centrally configured and deployed security policies and management instructions from authenticated policy servers, independent of routers or traffic streams

Provides host-independent enforcement, 24x7 intrusion resistance, and robust security functionality that bolsters administrative confidence in the safety of the network

Secures open Internet connections, such as VPN endpoints and broadband access gateways, located inside or outside the perimeter firewall

Protects users with multiple levels of protection wherever they work—elaxed for internal LAN connections and more restricted for shared and Internet-accessible systems

Hardens web and e-commerce servers, DMZ subnets, and customer databases against Internet attacks and unauthorized access

Automatically limits system-to-system communication when connecting outside the network perimeter; ignores nonessential protocols, shuts down unnecessary ports, denies "ping" requests, and disables packet sniffing and IP spoofing

Provides around-the-clock peace of mind; if firewall cards cannot communicate with the policy server, they will default to your maximum security levels

Complements other 802.3-standard compliant security solutions—ing security services switches, firewall/VPNs, antivirus scanners, and intrusion-detection systems (IDSs)

Lowers IT administration costs with 24/7 intrusion resistance that helps eliminate false alarms generated by IDS monitoring