CyberGuard High Availability Firewall Solution


Highlights

• CyberGuard HA provides high availability for Firewall Gateways

• Proven redundant architecture

• Intelligent monitoring will increase the uptime of business-critical networks

• Integrated with Firewall logging and alert features

• Redundant Heartbeat for improved Firewall availability

Overview 
As your company's critical Firewall manages distributed computing networks, Internet and Intranet environments; high availability will play a greater role in standard business operations. With each minute of downtime potentially meaning thousands of dollars lost, you need a cost effective way to keep your Firewall protecting your corporation around the clock. High availability is essential for continuous operation and security of a critical business Firewalls. CyberGuard HA Firewall, the next generation of high availability software, delivers unprecedented levels of protection for your most critical Firewall systems by automatically monitoring, automatically failover and restarting Firewalls. 

Unlike other solutions, CyberGuard HA Firewalls lets you do fail-over detection and switchover when failed services are detected from one Firewall to another. CyberGuard HA Firewall software seamlessly integrates with your existing Firewall environment, so you don't have to make any change or interrupt your business to safeguard your company's vital information and systems. Reliable, scalable, flexible, and easy to manage, CyberGuard HA Firewall enables you to build a Firewall Gateway environment without a single point of failure. It's no wonder companies worldwide in industries such as finance, telecommunications, retail, high technology, health care, and government rely on CyberGuard products to keep running smoothly. CyberGuard is the leading developer of Enterprise security solutions for today's business-critical computing environments. 

High Availability Enterprise Security Systems 
CyberGuard HA Firewall software will leverage the intelligent monitoring of critical services to determine when to fail-over. Our peer-to-peer Firewall architecture eliminates the need for manual intervention of the stand-by Firewall Gateway.

Intelligent Monitoring 
CyberGuard HA Firewall uses an intelligent decision-making process to detect and recover Firewall Gateway failures. When a Firewall failure is detected, a transparent process initiates commands that will allow another Firewall to become the active (primary) Firewall. Fail-over on an average will take place in less than a minute without rebooting. Heartbeat Ethernet interfaces are used to provide dedicated communication between the fail-over firewalls. IP addresses are migrated across Firewalls when a failover occurs so the IP will not change to the outside world. 

Replication of data files between Firewall 
CyberGuard HA Firewall will replicate important Firewall Command files that are critical to security so that ever