What is Sidewinder G2 Enterprise Manager?
Sidewinder® G2 Enterprise Manager™ from Secure Computing® is an enterprise strong™
security appliance that delivers both single-point policy management and a central audit
log and configuration back-up repository for hundreds of distributed Sidewinder G2®
Security Appliances -- all managed from a highly intuitive Windows®-based software package.
G2 Enterprise Manager™ is the first ever central management solution for firewalls
built from the ground up both to fully deliver on the management promise, and also to
ensure that the management server holding the policies, logs, encryption keys, and more,
is the most secure in the world.
Firewalls address the need for security with tightly regulated access focusing on keeping people out. This strategy,
however, doesn't account for the modern-day need to scale to millions of users--something that has become necessary
to accommodate the rigors of e-commerce and business partnerships. Furthermore, a firewall architecture must be highly
scalable, simply to accommodate the needs of a growing enterprise. Merger and acquisition activity often results in a
mish-mash of architectures, varying degrees of security and dozens of incompatible policies. Managing those policies, and
the dozens or hundreds of firewalls that exist throughout the enterprise, can only be done effectively from a central platform.
The architecture of the Secure Computing Sidewinder G2 Security Appliance and the Sidewinder G2 Enterprise Manager
still keep the wrong people out--but they also focus on letting the right ones in. The Sidewinder G2 can establish trusted
relationships with vast numbers of users, and build a secure extranet through which to conduct successful e-business
operations.
Installation and start-up of the Enterprise Manager appliance, with its SecureOS®
UNIX operating system and tightly integrated SQL database, is simple and fast as you
experience the convenience of our Power-It-On™ promise. You only need a small number
of skilled firewall experts across your entire organization to build, deploy, and lock
down firewall policies -- ensuring configuration integrity and saving administration time
and cost.
For more information on the Sidewinder G2 Enterprise Manager, please see our Enterprise Manager pages.
