Monday, April 12, 2021

Zyxel Rolls Out New Firewalls

Anaheim-based networking hardware maker Zyxel said this morning that it has rolled out a brand new firewall line, aimed at the SMB market. According to the company its new USG FLEX Firewall series is part of its Nebula Cloud Networking line, and are specifically designed to support remote work. The company said that the product is a response to the rapid shift to remote networking, driven by the COVID-19 pandemic. Zyxel said that the increased exposure to the network from the outside by cloud-based services, remote workers, and the use of personal (BYOD) and IoT devices on the company network has created countless ways the network can be compromised.