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"Norman Network Protection can improve network security up to 38% when used in conjunction with a range of well-known endpoint protection products." - NSS Labs

A comprehensive, high performance security appliance that helps organizations to effectively protect critical IT infrastructure against cyber criminals.

There is little doubt that organizations today must protect their networks from malicious threats to their corporate and customer data. With more information moving in and out of networks from a variety of sources, the risk of infection from malware is high.

Norman delivers the most effective protection available for enterprise and industrial networks.

Key Benefits

Out of the Box Antimalware Turn-key Solution

Delivers everything you need to protect your network against malware in one appliance.

Quick Setup

Norman Network Protection appliances can be easily set up with a first-time configuration wizard.

Integrated Security Management

Norman Network Protection appliances come with integrated gateway management, offering the ability to centrally manage multiple NNP gateways from a single console.

High Availability Solution

Norman Network Protection high availability solution enables organizations to survive system or application failures with no discernible interruption to business-critical applications.

URL Blocking

Prohibits access to unwanted web sites, preventing users from being exposed to threats and inappropriate content.

Full Duplex 10 Gbit/s Network & 64-bit Linux Multithread Support

Ensures high availability of business-critical applications with 10 Gbps Ethernet support and high performance antimalware scanning utilizing Linux 64 bit multithread support.

In-line or out-of-band? Your choice.

You can implement NNP based on your preferences. If you prefer to be able to prevent malware from entering your network you can put the NNP in-line in your infrastructure. Otherwise you can use NNP to monitor the traffic on a mirror port on a switch and only get alerts when malware is detected.

Features

General

Deployable anywhere in the network
Easy installation and maintenance
Highly scalable hardware platform
Mirror port / SPAN port support
Support for 10 Gbit/s networks
Supports unlimited number of VLANs
High Availability
Redundancy/fail-over solution on software & hardware

Other Features

Optional blocking of MSN traffic and BitTorrents protocol
Customizable content/URI blocking
Multi-tiered traffic blocking or exclusion based on IP-address, MAC-address or VLAN ID
Supports SNMP-based management systems
Multithreaded application with multi-CPU support
Runs on Linux
Available as hardware and software based solution

Malware Scanning

Realtime malware scanning of network traffic
Automatic outbreak prevention and damage control
Malware source detection and isolation
Proactive protection with Norman SandBox^®, Norman DNA Matching and Norman Exploit Detection inside
Realtime analysis of unknown malware via Norman SandBox^® log
Automatic scan engine and signature update
Unmatched protocol scanning capabilities; FTP, HTTP, SMTP, POP3, RPC, TFTP, IRC and Windows file sharing

Reviews & Use Cases

"Providing such simple and unproblematic malware protection, along with an excellent, again very straightforward control system, makes this an extremely userfriendly weapon in the fight against malware problems in business networks, as well as a powerful one. We look forward to investigating a wider range of appliances to see how they match up to this impressive effort from Norman."

"What was especially interesting for Arla Foods was that the system could be implemented without requiring major changes to the existing equipment."