Cyberoam rolls out CyberoamOS 10.6.2

Cyberoam has announced a new firmware - CyberoamOS 10.6.2 for its UTM and NGFW security appliances. Among many updates included in the new firmware are the increase in Firewall throughputs by up to 430%, IPS throughputs by up to 210% and UTM throughputs by up to 190%, inclusion of User Threat Quotient (UTQ) offering security intelligence to spot risky users in network, availability of Cyberoam in Discover mode (popularly known as TAP mode) to help partners and customers evaluate Cyberoam security and Application Visibility & Controls for HTTPS-based Micro-Apps.

Abhilash Sonwane, SVP – Products & Technology, Cyberoam, says, “We moved many notches up in offering high-performance security at the time of launching our NG Series security appliances. With CyberoamOS 10.6.2, we have touched even higher scales by further leveraging the fast path technology over Cyberoam’s multi-core platform. Our new performance breakthroughs will help Cyberoam customers boost network security performance without changing their existing hardware.”

The higher performance and faster throughputs coming with CyberoamOS 10.6.2 will offer Cyberoam customers maximum protection out of Cyberoam security features (firewall, IPS, AV, UTM). The enhancements in CyberoamOS 10.6.2 will also offer User Threat Quotient (UTQ) and Application Visibility and Control for Micro Apps to customers on their security appliances.

Among other key features becoming available include Radius Single-Sign-On (RSSO), IPv6 Traffic Load-balancing support in HA, Secure SMTP and availability of Discover Mode (popularly called TAP mode) that makes PoC evaluation of Cyberoam security appliances simpler, easier and faster.