Symantec Enterprise Firewall, designed to provide proactive, enterprise-class network and application-level protection, enables fast and secure connectivity with the Internet. It protects the enterprise from both known and unknown attacks, due to its stringent standards-based approach. The solution integrates full application inspection, application-layer proxies, stateful inspection, and packet filtering into a unique hybrid architecture to protect against complex blended threats and denial of service attacks, by default. This unique hybrid architecture ensures complete control of information entering and leaving the enterprise while providing partners and customers with secure, uninterrupted access to corporate resources. Through its integrated, standards-based VPN, the solution also provides low-cost, high-speed connectivity between offices, as well as between mobile workers and the office.