The award-winning, next-gen Arista NG Firewall - a key pillar in Arista's edge threat management (ETM) portfolio that includes ETM Dashboard and Micro Edge - is scaling greater heights than ever with versions 16.0 and beyond.


Partners with customers benefiting from ETM with NG Firewall can now also enjoy WireGuard - a premier offering among virtual private networking (VPN) apps.


That means users of Arista NG Firewall Complete enjoy state-of-the-art cryptography for network security while enabling high-performance connectivity that's still easy to use and simple to configure. You can copy-and-paste between servers to streamline site-to-site connectivity, for instance.


WireGuard VPN clients work with different devices and major operating systems, maintaining connection security when devices move from one network to another, for example from on-site wireless networking to mobile.


Partners can ease the customer route to VPN benefits in a modernised, agile way while also enhancing and accelerating connectivity between users wherever they are located on an increasingly porous network perimeter.


Arista NG Firewall 16.0 also includes feature improvements to IPsec VPN, OpenVPN, and Threat Prevention - while adding more support for the unified extensible firmware interface (UEFI) to answer customer demand for more choice of hardware appliances.


That means users of the modular software platform also receive an improved experience that drives greater productivity - reducing disruptions and slow-downs (such as when waiting for a VPN connection). You'll enjoy improved system performance, disk management and SSL certificate handling too.


Even more updates are approaching in the next versions of NG Firewall - designed with smaller or resource-strapped organisations in mind - in its drive to simplify network security for less cost across every device, at all times and wherever they move on distributed networks.


With sophisticated content filtering, advanced threat protection, VPN connectivity, application-based bandwidth optimisation in one enterprise-grade platform, users can proactively stop malware, hackers, phish and many other threats in their tracks, optimised with Micro Edge while orchestrating from a single log-in with Arista's ETM Dashboard.


Give us a call at QBS on +44 (0) 20 8733 7100 or email us via this form to better answer the challenges of securing a remote workforce, branch offices and guest Wi-Fi.


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