You may be aware of the needs of your organisation today, but what about the demands you will face tomorrow? It could be something big that happens such as an acquisition of another company, or something smaller such as an office move. Maybe you will decide to change authentication systems or change mobile operator. Maybe you want to implement Voice over IP but worry about security. Do some of your users want to use Linux or Mac´s instead of PC's? One thing is for certain, there will always be change and the system you invest in now has to be capable of supporting those changes so you can concentrate on your business rather than spending your time trying to overcome problems with the infrastructure.

With AppGate all those changes will be no problem.

• AppGate supports all types of application protocols with none of the usual limitations that other vendors have.
• AppGate supports all types of devices with any type of OS, even mobile phones and PDA's.
• AppGate supports many types of authentication system - it is even possible to use more than one at the same time.
• AppGate is scalable for performance and security, so it is easy to increase the number of users or implement applications that demand higher capacity.

The university installed AppGate personal firewalls on internal workstations and servers. Since the firewall lacks a user interface but downloads the rule sets from a central policy manager, the users who can be students, teachers and researchers never have to (or is even able to) interact with the firewall system.

In addition, it enables administrators to block many viruses from spreading by instantly being able to stop selected traffic on the network.