Hillside Board of Education has been a member of the Union County Internet Consortium (UCIC), since the late 1990's. The UCIC recently upgraded to the Symantec Gateway Security 5640. Symantec Gateway Security 5600 Series provides seven essential security functions for maximum effectiveness, while reducing the complexity of security management. Symantec Gateway Security 5600 Series tightly integrates anti-spam, anti-virus, clientless SSL and IPSec VPN, full-inspection firewall, intrusion prevention, intrusion detection, and both dynamic document review and URL list-based content filtering technologies to provide zero-day protection for the network perimeter.

Symantec Gateway Security 5600 Series extends its support for URL-based list filters with Symantec's patented Dynamic Document Review (DDR) technology. DDR prevents students and employees from accessing objectionable content by allowing UCIC administrators to define context sensitive word relationships.

In addition to UCIC maintaining the firewall and filtering offered by Symantec Gateway Security, Hillside maintains a Cymphonix Network Composer NC500. The Network Composer NC500 delivers enterprise-class WAN data stream management. Its all-in-one approach solves the problems created when users, applications and threats battle for network resources. By correlating critical security and application performance functions, the Network Composer NC500 delivers secure, consistent data flow, and reduces the complexity and cost of managing WAN connectivity.

The Network Composer NC500 optimizes the WAN data stream by scanning, identifying and controlling data coming in from and going out to the Internet. The device scans deep into the packet payload to quickly identify non-critical and detrimental traffic and then prioritizes mission-critical traffic based on your organization's objectives. By ensuring mission-critical traffic gets through, Network Composer NC500 maximizes your organization's performance.

The Network Composer NC500 delivers unified threat management and WAN optimization in one device, eliminating the cost, complexity and need to implement multiple single-purpose appliances. Its revolutionary Network Analytics makes it easy to see and report on user activity, application performance and threat control by showing how isolated events impact performance as a whole. The Network Composer NC500 generates granular reports on a specific user, prioritizes applications and stops spyware, viruses, inappropriate content and more with one clear interface.

The Network Composer NC500 makes it easier for administrators to manage distributed environments. Specifically designed for host implementations, the Network Composer NC500 rolls up usage reports in real-time and allows administrators to quickly identify and control the users, applications and threats that impact network performance throughout distributed environments.