New threats to corporate networks have caused the cost of deploying and maintaining IT – and specifically security – infrastructure to spiral out of control. As a result, businesses are turning to an outsourced model, one in which security and compliance services are offered by a service provider or by an independent internal security services organization within the enterprise. These providers rely heavily on virtualization technologies to meet customers’ requirements while significantly reducing their own operational and capital costs.

The Crossbeam Virtual Security Services represents the virtualization of the latest firewall (FW) and intrusion prevention system (IPS) technologies. As such, the solution reduces deployment times, improves security, and increases the flexibility of the IT infrastructure.  

This fully virtualized security gateway enables the creation of hundreds of virtual systems – FW, virtual private network (VPN), and IPS – all on a single resilient, scalable chassis. The result is an efficient use of infrastructure that provides organizations with deep cost savings and infrastructure consolidation.

The Crossbeam Solution: Differentiated Value
The Crossbeam Virtualized Security Services brings together a wide range of hardware, networking, and application processing elements, while providing completely isolated, independent virtual security systems. The result is effective utilization of infrastructure and centralization of management and security policy control – all combining to significantly reduce security deployment costs and management complexity. The Crossbeam Next Generation Security Platform, coupled with security applications from ISV partners including Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. and IBM, forms the basis for the industry’s most highly available and reliable, not to mention best performing, solution.