Cyberoam Technologies, a Sophos subsidiary, is a global

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appliances provider, with presence in more than 125 countries.

Business Field

The company offers User Identity-based network security in its Firewalls/ Unified Threat Management appliances, allowing visibility and granular control into users' activities in business networks. For

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, SMB and large

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networks, this ensures security built around the network user for protection against APTs, insider threats, malware,

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, and other sophisticated network attacks. Cyberoam has sales offices in North America,

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and

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. The company has its

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and development centers in

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and has 550+ employees across the globe. It has a channel-centric approach for its sales with a global network of 4500+ partners. The company also conducts training programs for its customers and partners.

Product Overview

Cyberoam’s product range offers network security (Firewall and UTM appliances), centralized security management (Cyberoam Central Console appliances), centralized visibility (Cyberoam iView ), and Cyberoam

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for home and small office networks. Cyberoam network security appliances include multiple features like Firewall –

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(SSL VPN & IPSec), Gateway

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(IPS), Content & Application Filtering,

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, Application Visibility & Control,

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, Multiple Link Management for Load Balancing and Gateway Failover, over a single platform.

Identity based Security- Layer 8 Technology

Cyberoam's Layer 8 Technology also known as Identity based Security, adds an 8th Layer (HUMAN layer) in the network protocol stack, thereby considering user’s identity as part of the firewall rule matching criteria. Cyberoam attaches user identity to security while authenticating, authorizing & auditing (AAA), the network allowing a

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to see and control the ‘user’ on a network instead of just an

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. This enables the administrators to identify users, control Internet activity of users in the network, set user based policies and reporting by

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Cyberoam Security Training Academy

Cyberoam has tied up with NESCOT (North East Surrey College of Technology) -its first Master UK Training Academy. NESCOT offers Cyberoam certified security courses which includes basic-level course namely 'CCNSP' (Cyberoam Certified Security Professional) and advanced-level course namely 'CCNSE' (Cyberoam Certified Security Expert).

Security flaw in HTTPS traffic inspection

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software security engineer revealed in July 2012 that all Cyberoam appliances with SSL traffic inspection capabilities had been using the same self-generated CA certificate by default. This made it possible to intercept traffic from any victim of a Cyberoam device with any other Cyberoam device - or, indeed, to extract the key from the device and import it into other DPI

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devices, and use those for interception. Cyberoam issued an over-the-air (OTA) update for its unified threat management (UTM) appliances in order to force the devices to use unique certificate authority (CA) SSL certificates when intercepting SSL traffic on corporate networks. After the hotfix was applied,Cyberoam Fixes SSL Snooping Hole in Network Security Appliances
- By Lucian Constantin, IDG News Service, 9 Jul 2012 each individual appliance was required to have its unique CA certificate.

References

Cyberoaks - Official Website
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