Security Management Appliances
The IronPort M-Series network security management system provides one location for managing, storing and monitoring all of your company’s policy settings and auditing information. It works in conjunction with IronPort’s email and Web security appliances and was built to centralize and unite runtime data and your company’s policy into a single interface management tool for the administrator’s ease of use. The IronPort M-Series gets the best performance out of all your application security gateways, allowing you the option to coordinate security operations from either a single or multiple security management appliances.
| Appliance | Number of Users | Description |
| IronPort M1000 | 10,000 + | Flexible management and complete security control at the network gateway |
| IronPort M600 | <10,000 | Designed to meet the needs of companies with up to 10,000 users, this cost-effective model has the same features and functionality as the flagship IronPort M1000 |
IronPort M1000 - Security Management Appliance
Constructed to handle the most challenging workloads of large companies across the globe, the IronPort M1000™ offers comprehensive security control at the network gateway and provides centralized management of reporting, auditing information and policy for IronPort’s email and Web security tools. This centralized overview of the range of application-specific security gateways significantly cuts down the administrator’s workload, while securing your company against possible threats reliably and comprehensively.
What's Inside an IronPort M1000?
The IronPort M1000 can relieve a lot of administrative overhead, as it can host several unique security management features, including
- Centralised reporting, which
- merges traffic data from numerous email and Web security tools
- provides complete integration of security reporting across all policies
- End-to-end communications auditing
- covering where and when a communication occurred
- Combined policy management that
- provides security policies across logical business groups
- distributes the security policies across physical security appliances
IronPort M600 - Security Management Appliance
The IronPort M600™ has the same features and works identically to the flagship IronPort M1000™, yet was specifically built to be an affordable model that would fulfill the requirements of companies with up to 10,000 users. The IronPort M600™ offers comprehensive security control at the network gateway and provides centralized management of reporting, auditing information and policy for IronPort’s email and Web security tools. This centralized overview of the range of application-specific security gateways significantly cuts down the administrator’s workload, while securing your company against possible threats reliably and comprehensively.
What's Inside an IronPort M600?
The IronPort M600™ can significantly reduce a lot of administrative overhead, as it can host several unique security management features, including
- Centralized reporting, which
- merges traffic data from numerous email and Web security tools
- provides complete integration of security reporting across all policies
- End-to-end communications auditing
- covering where and when a communication occurred
- Combined policy management that
- provides security policies across logical business groups
- distributes the security policies across physical security appliances
