Castleforce IT Security Team

GCSx CoCo Firewalls

As GCSx CoCo is a UK Government standard it is advised that EAL4 firewalls are used.

Castleforce resell several such firewalls and can help with integration, support and configuration to support GCSx CoCo.


Castleforce Firewall Partners

At Castleforce we are partnered with several leading firewall vendors and we can provide pre and post technical assistance with all the products listed. 

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Check Point is a leader in network security software, firewall solutions, VPN solutions, endpoint security, network protection, security management, data protection and Pointsec data encryption technologies. Check Point provides leading enterprise, small business and consumer network security solutions. EAL4 Certified firewalls.

Stonesoft Securing Information Flow Stonesoft specialise in High Availability Security Appliances including Firewalls, IDS/IPS and SSL VPN in both hardware and virtual appliances.  EAL4 Certified firewalls.

Juniper Networks Networking and security solutionsNetworking and security solutions from Juniper Networks helps consolidate network security issues for small, medium and large enterprises

Celestix Networks is the premier developer of Microsoft Windows-based managed security appliances The MSA security appliance from Celestix is specifically designed for network security, running a hardened version of Microsoft ISA Server 2006.

Sonicwall Protection at the speed of business SonicWALL provides firewall products with unified threat management services such as network anti-virus, anti-spyware, virtual private networking (VPN), content filtering and other security services.

WatchGuard Technologies provide Powerful network protection The XTM family of network security appliances is a new class of performance-driven solutions. Blazing fast throughput combines with advanced networking features to handle high-volume traffic securely - and at an affordable price. Includes a suite of flexible management tools that allows IT administrators to manage security through an intuitive centralized console, command line interface, and web UI.

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Virtual Private Network Consortium (VPNC)

Better known as VPNC.  VPNC is the international trade association for manufacturers in the VPN market.

VPNC issues logos for interoperability to VPNC member products which have successfully completed the testing.

Check Point, Stonesoft, Sonicwall and Secure Computing all reach the VPNC Certified list for Firewalls. 

VPNC Basic Interop

VPNC AES Interop