Scotland Online offer a range of totally managed firewall services for hosting, where there are no demands on your staff to perform day to day management of the firewall, leaving you to concentrate on other areas of your business. The service we offer is based on Scotland Online supplying and maintaining a firewall to protect customers infrastructure located within our Data Center. The service includes the following:

• Initial Security Audit
• Implementation
• Support
• On going security testing and proactive change.

Scotland Online utilises the Nokia IP range of firewalls which have been specifically designed, optimized and secured to run the Checkpoint Firewall-1 industry leading firewall software. Solutions vary from entry level performance, to mission critical, high performance failover solutions. Options exist for mutli layered solutions utilising Cisco Pix firewalls.

Key features of the Nokia Security Platforms include the following:

Plug & Play implementation
Nokia Security Solutions integrate key network functionality and applications typically supplied by multiple vendors into one solution. Nokia integrated security products are shipped with the software pre-installed and pre-tested, and arrive with minimal hardware installation demands.

Serviceability
Nokia delivers high interface density, rack mountability, and front access connectors to facilitate maintenance. All key appliance service functions can be accomplished in the rack.

World-class network functionality
A comprehensive set of IP routing protocols are available on all Nokia IP Security Platforms, including RIPv1/v2, OSPF, BGP4, VRRP, RIPng and more. Other networking functions supported are Router Discovery, Mail Relay, and DNS.

High Availability
Mission critical applications require continuous network availability. VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol) - standard on all Nokia IP Security Platforms - enables load-sharing and active redundancy between two or more Nokia systems. Coupled with Firewall Sync, VRRP ensures that access to the network is never compromised.