3Com® Security Solutions
Enterprise networks are exposed to risk at random points throughout their infrastructure. As an end-to-end networking provider, 3Com is uniquely positioned to offer security solutions that can be deployed at key points of vulnerability across the network. Our standards-based security technologies seamlessly overlay various elements of the network infrastructure as well as purpose-built appliances. This allows customers of all sizes to infuse security throughout their existing network infrastructure or build inherently secure networks from the ground up. 3Com® solutions for pervasive security overlays include: Layer 2-7 firewalls, virtual private networks (VPNs), authentication, authorization, intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS), antivirus, content filtering, security policies, and centralized management. Our extensive portfolio of security solutions delivers integrative network security for small, medium, and large enterprises.
The 3Com® Security Switches fundamentally improve the economics of delivering security applications in high-speed, business-critical networks. Now, data-center architects have an alternative to security infrastructures that escalate capital and operating costs in direct proportion to traffic growth. 3Com Security Switches are powerful and flexible new security platforms that deliver better returns on investment (ROI) along with the flexibility to support a series of essential network applications.
3Com's Embedded Firewall solutions are host-based, hardware-embedded firewalls for desktops and servers and notebooks. These firewalls help protect individual systems inside or outside the perimeter, wherever an additional layer of security is needed.
Building a Secure Infrastructure Architecture for corporate LANs requires combining robust network security with core high availability. 3Com Workgroup/Desktop LAN Switches and 3Com IntelliJack™ Switches combine high availability with support for 802.1X, RADIUS, and automated VLAN forwarding across the edge switching infrastructure. These capabilities enable devices, users, and services to be segmented and isolated over a single network infrastructure. 3Com Core LAN Switches deliver robust support for access control lists (ACLs), providing an extremely effective mechanism for enhancing internal LAN security.
Wi-Fi certified 3Com Wireless LAN Access Points and Adapters flexibly support 802.11a/b/g standards, and provide advanced safeguards such as 256-bit Wireless Protected Access (WPA) encryption, VPNs, virtual LANs, 802.1X, RADIUS, and automated VLAN forwarding.
In short, 3Com Security Solutions offer protection against security threats at the network perimeter or gateway, enterprise data center, shared Internet zones, remote and internal hosts, and LAN core. The following quick reference highlights which of our security products are most appropriate for a particular network segment:
| Network Segment |
3Com Security Product |
| Individual Host |
3Com® Embedded Firewall Solution |
| Data Center |
3Com Security Switch 7280, or 7245 |
| Network Perimeter |
3Com Switch 7280, 7245, or 6200 |
| Consolidated IDS |
3Com Switch 7280, 7245, or 6200 |
| Interdepartmental VLANs |
3Com Switch 7280, 7245, or 6200 |
| LAN Infrastructure |
3Com Secure Infrastructure Architecture |
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