Cyberoam CR-200i

Last year, we reviewed a couple of Cyberoam UTMs in our UTM shootout and they

proved good. We received UTMs for each segment starting for SOHO to large

enterprises costing from 60 k to 16 Lacs. This time, we had our hands on

Cyberoam's 200i which is meant for mid-sized enterprises.

Configuring this device was simple given its easy UI. With the help of the

configuration wizard, the initial configuration was done in a couple of minutes

and the appliance was up and running in our test network. All its interfaces are

configurable for internal, DMZ or WAN network, giving you full flexibility on

how you want your network to be. For increasing the performance level, 200i has

dual core processor built into it. It is stated by Cyberoam that with the launch

of 200i, they have achieved 33% higher throughput in its enterprise grade

products.

We tested this appliance in our labs and the results were pretty good as

compared to the last year's. First, we did the anti-virus test for which we

downloaded virus over different protocols via this UTM. And it blocked an

average of 94% of viruses which is obviously a good figure compared to the

figure of last year's Cyberoam 250i. While downloading the viruses over HTTP

using DAP, the appliance generated a warning saying 'multi threaded downloading

using http'. This kind of warning is actually good as you can immediately track

down any such activity on the network and find the culprit. Than we checked for

anti-spam for which we downloaded a lot of spam from our test mail server and

the score we got for this was 90% which is really good as compared to last

years's again. Next we tried jamming its ports, for which we ran port jamming

tool from 3 different machines, and it had no effect on the device. We also

tried DoS attack which was unsuccessful, and the system kept running normally as

if nothing happened. After using it for a decent period, we tried out its

reporting tool, which we found pretty interesting. We could see the details

based on user or IPs or we could also view just the overview of the

organization.

Bottomline: Cyberoam was always in the group of the recommended ones,

and 200i as expected booked its position right there.