NetPilot Plus Key Features

Unified Threat Management

NetPilot reduces complexity and protects users from multiple internally and externally generated threats by combining multiple protection measures into a single appliance.

To offer complete piece of mind, NetPilot Plus comes bundled with 12 months subscription to all UTM Premium services. This includes: anti-virus for email and browsing from Sophos, anti-spam, email policy controls, advanced firewall, intrusion detection and prevention systems, anti-spyware, software upgrade service and URL content filtering.

The intrusion detection system detects attacks or looks for behaviour on the network that is unusual or against acceptable use policies. It also provides an audit trail to show how the attack occurred, from where and how far it went. Once something unusual has been detected, the intrusion prevention system can be configured to automatically communicate with the NetPilot advanced firewall to block potential future exploits.

Anti-virus capabilities are powered by market leader Sophos, offering a gateway Anti-virus scanning of all incoming, outgoing and internal emails, together with all web site downloads.

Anti-spam facilities ensure your staff are not inundated with useless and time-consuming emails.

Email policy controls give the administrator even greater scope to create more extensive rules to deal with email, customized to your organisation's needs.

URL content filtering, offers a complete control of all browsing activities. This service can be profiled for individual users or user groups, ensuring porn and all other undesirable content is blocked.

Advanced Firewall

Equiinet offers two firewall options: the standard firewall and a licensable advanced firewall, to which the NetPilot Plus includes an initial 12 month subscription. The standard firewall offers excellent security that is powerful yet easy to administer. The advanced firewall is for those with the technical knowledge that want to construct more detailed rule sets.

The advanced firewall uses powerful stateful packet inspection techniques. To provide the best security a firewall must track and control the flow of communications. Unlike rudimentary packet filters that are found in cheap personal firewall products, NetPilot's stateful inspection analyses information flow into and out of a network so that security decisions can be made in real time. It accomplishes this by tracking the state and context of all communications traversing the firewall even when the connection involves complex protocols.

The advanced firewall also offers the flexibility to allocate particular services and define protocol attributes to particular physical ports. In this fashion multiple, WAN, LAN, DMZ and other ports can be configured.

NetPilot Plus' firewall has undergone rigorous independent testing from West Coast Labs and has been awarded Checkmark accreditation.

VPN Connectivity

NetPilot Plus, with its accredited virtual private network functionality, uses standard IPSec protocols with 3DES encryption, to form part of an Internet based VPN. It also offers CIPE and OpenVPN for NetPilot to NetPilot connections.

Secure VPN tunnels across the Internet can interconnect NetPilots at differing office locations.

In addition, roving sales or support personnel, or home office users can dial into their nearest POP and connect to their central office for the price of a local call. NetPilot Plus comes complete with OpenVPN which allows unlimited number of free remote clients or optionally Safenet VPN clients can be purchased for remote connections using IPSec.

Controlled High Speed Web Access

NetPilot Plus enables multi-user Internet access through a range of high-speed communications options. It has powerful, yet flexible control facilities to administer local access of external resources, including user restrictions, web access control, web filters and time controls. Some groups or individuals may have rights assigned to use only email, or just web browsing. Which web sites are accessed by which users can be controlled - ranging from a very restricted set of web addresses with no general browsing capability, to fairly widespread rights with perhaps the exception of pornographic sites.

Total Email Solution

NetPilot Plus can act as a company-wide email server. Incoming and/or outgoing emails can be automatically copied or redirected. Email footers can be automatically appended as the email is transmitted externally.

For complete flexibility, NetPilot Plus can be set to act as a gateway to another internal mail server such as Microsoft Exchange.

Web Page Caching

To save bandwidth and speed up response time, Equiinet introduced caching. This allows popular web sites, pages or parts of pages to be stored locally in NetPilot Plus and to be viewed subsequently by other users without reconnecting to the Internet, unless the content has changed.

Intranet

Web pages can be served directly from the NetPilot Plus . Company-wide or department-wide information can be kept up to date on an internal 'Intranet' site residing on NetPilot Plus . This information can either enabled or disabled from any outside access.

File and Print Serving

NetPilot Plus can also act as a file server for local LAN PC users with Microsoft Windows. In addition, there is a parallel port for centralised print server functionality. The printer attached to NetPilot Plus is mapped to each local LAN PC and each PC can then independently spool print files into a NetPilot Plus -maintained print queue. Again this removes the need for a dedicated print server or printer-sharing device.

Easy to Install

NetPilot Plus is straightforward to install and extremely easy to use. The network administrator is provided with a 'Quick Configuration' utility, which is accessed through a browser interface to NetPilot Plus . A simple menu-based dialogue then provides all the necessary information for automatic configuration, enabling online connectivity within minutes.

Ongoing Management

NetPilot Plus monitors and reports on a range of activities including online time, the number of incoming and outgoing emails by user, web usage by time of day, and firewall rejects. These reports can be automatically collated and sent as a daily email to a system supervisor.

Upgrades and Support

Software updates can be automatically downloaded from the NetPilot upgrade service site. Support staff can check the operation of NetPilot Plus remotely and make online changes if necessary.

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