Cyberoam Receives 5 Star-rating from SC Magazine, UK

“Cyberoam makes an impressive entry into the UK market with a family of appliances offering a fine range of security features. The policies and user identity security make it flexible.” That’s what SC Magazine UK stated while giving a 5 Star rating to Cyberoam.

This is the 3rd such rating Cyberoam has received from SC Magazine, the other 2 being from SC Magazine USA earlier this year. Rather that give a brief, I decided the best approach is to quote SC Magazine itself. So here it goes.

Everything You’d Expect in a UTM Solution
The appliance offers everything you'd expect to see in a UTM solution with features including firewall, anti-virus, anti-spam, intrusion prevention, web content filtering and IPsec VPNs. User authentication options are extensive as you can use Active Directory, NT domain, RADIUS or LDAP servers and the appliance maintains its own database of users and groups. Systems can also be identified by their IP address, you can maintain IP address pools and even tie users to specific systems where they are only allowed to log in from an assigned address or a pool.

Web Console – A Tidy Affair
The main web console is a tidy affair and offers a useful startup wizard that helps you pick the operational mode, assign IP addresses to the interfaces and set up email notifications. The HTTP proxy can be configured with custom ports if required and there's also a pharming protection option that will stop users being redirected to dodgy websites.

Policies go Deeper
Cyberoam's policies go much deeper, as they can be applied to selected groups or individual users. Each can have their own web filtering, internet access and bandwidth policies but you can also apply their own web access times plus upload and download data transfer restrictions. For the latter, you can apply daily, weekly, monthly or yearly limits. During user policy creation you can view each policy in a pop-up window so you don't need to keep swapping across different screens.

Anti-spam Options are Plentiful
You can apply a global policy to all users and then fine tune it with custom policies for specific users and groups. Advanced features provide plenty of choices for what to do if spam is detected. You can have different policies covering attachment sizes, mail sources and message header content plus four different options based on the appliance's spam scoring system. If one of these is triggered for SMTP you can quarantine, drop, reject or tag the subject line, while for POP3 you can only accept a suspect message or tag it.

For anti-spam testing we left the appliance chugging away in the background on its default settings where it filtered our live email. At the end of the test we reported a 97 per cent efficiency with no false positives.

If you’d like to read the entire review - http://www.scmagazineuk.com/Cyberoam-CR100i/Review/2662/