De 'Longhi Reducing Costs And Exceeding Goals
Maintaining highly available VPN connections at acceptable levels of network performance were
important objectives for the De`Longhi Group. To achieve these objectives with traditional
solutions would have added technology complexity and costs to network management budget. The
StoneGate solution, with its patented Multi-Link™ technology, not only enabled the De`Longhi Group
to achieve its objectives; it also reduced the costs of administration and accelerated return on
investment.
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StoneGate has significantly reduced connectivity costs, while enabling an increase in the
network performance, as well as enhanced possibilities for remote access,” said M.Sc Daniele
Faccioni, General Manager of E-Services. “
Thanks to StoneGate, we have been able to cut off costly frame-relay connections and obtain a
network entirely administrated by E-Services with analogical integrity and confidentiality.”
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Fireproof Protection for Aachen's University Network
The renowned technical university RWTH Aachen protects its IT network with the StoneGate
security solution. After extensive testing, Stonesoft's firewall solution prevailed over three
other competing products. A crucial factor for RWTH's decision for StoneGate was its superior
bandwidth which easily handles the daily network access requirements of the entire campus with its
tens of thousands of students and staff.
"The outstanding thing about the StoneGate firewall is that it remains up and running, even
under the most adverse conditions, such as a denial of service attack," says Andreas
Schreiber, Head of Network Operations at The Computing and Communication Centre at RWTH Aachen.
"Under similar conditions, where other products capped the link very early on, Stonesoft's
system simply kept on going, Mr Schreiber continues"
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Finnish Defence Forces selects Stonesoft´s firewalls to
protect the transition network
Finnish Defence Forces has selected Stonesoft's firewall products for its system management
network, which will be implemented as part of the Transition Network 2008 project. Stonesoft's
firewalls will be delivered by Atea Finland Oy and deliveries are anticipated to begin in February
2006. This sales project is strategically significant to Stonesoft.
"The StoneGate™ Firewall Solution is a crucial part of the Transition Network 2008 project,
which will connect intelligence, control and command information network systems. The target of the
project is to reach combat endurance and network security of high quality", says squadron
leader and project manager Risto Liimatainen from Finnish Defense Forces.
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Realex Payments Choose Real World Security for Real Time
Finance
Realex Payments, a real time financial services exchange, houses its application data and its
firewall at separate hosting facilities, which are then managed via a VPN connection from its head
office in Dublin. Before going live, the company had to not only prepare the infrastructure but
also gain accreditation from various financial institutions in order to be classified as a ‘data
processor’ and be permitted to handle the data. Because the quality of the IT security systems
deployed by Realex was critical to being awarded and retaining this certification, it quickly
became clear that Realex needed a highly-effective enterprise-level firewall with powerful
administrative and functional features.
"Selecting a firewall is usually a trade off between functionality and ease of use. We believe
that StoneGate offers a good balance between these. The more recent addition of the Stonesoft IPS
product combined with this firewalling capability has become an important part of the armoury
required to ensure that our data remains secure, confidential, and integral."
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Stonesoft voted finalist in two major categories for the SC
Magazine European Excellence Awards 2006
StoneGate Security Platform nominated as Best Enterprise Solution, and StoneGate High
Availability Firewall nominated as Best Enterprise Firewall for prestigious European awards hosted
by Secure ComputingMagazine
Stonesoft has received nominations for two of the most
prominent categories at the SC Magazine European Excellence Awards 2006, hosted by Secure Computing
Magazine. Stonesoft’s flagship StoneGate Security Platform has been named as a finalist in the Best
Enterprise Solution category, while the company’s innovative StoneGate High Availability Firewall
has been nominated in the Best Enterprise Firewall category. In addition, should the StoneGate High
Availability Firewall be successful in the Best Enterprise Firewall category, it will also become a
major contender in the overall category Best Network Security Solution.
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Stonesoft Appoints Senior Vice President of the
Americas
Stonesoft announces the appointment Paul Johnson to Senior Vice President of the Americas.
Johnson joins Stonesoft following a 10-year tenure at Compuware Corporation, where he served in the
role of senior vice president of Eastern operations. Johnson brings seasoned operations, sales and
professional service delivery experience to Stonesoft to drive the company’s sales and operations
in the Americas.
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Stonesoft Appoints UK and Ireland Regional Manager
Stonesoft has promoted Paul Brettle to the post of Regional Manager for the UK and Ireland. Paul
Brettle joined Stonesoft in 2004 from Insight Consulting, the security consultancy and delivery arm
of Siemens in the UK, where he was Senior Consultant working on the eSecurity infrastructure team.
He has over ten years’ IT experience and has worked on large scale security projects and
implementations for organisations ranging from investment banks to government departments.
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StoneGate SG-4000 Named "Hot Pick" by Information Security
Magazine
Stonesoft announces that its StoneGate SG-4000 High-Availability Firewall and VPN gateway has
been named a “Hot Pick” by Information Security magazine
, February 2006 issue. Stonesoft’s network security appliance, designed to address the
needs of large and distributed enterprises, was singled out by Information Security’s editors for
its high-availability, load balancing, rule inheritance, easy backup and restore, and remote
upgrade and rollback capabilities.
According to the review,
“Large enterprises that value performance and availability as much as data integrity and
confidentiality will find Stonesoft’s Gate SG-4000 network firewall’s high availability,
scalability and low maintenance requirements hard to beat. SG-4000’s impressive networking
capabilities offer significant value. Its Multi-Link technology provides uninterrupted availability
for Internet and VPN traffic without the cost of redundant routers and switches, or configuring
routing protocols such as BGP.”
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Stonesoft Introduces the First Internal Firewall/VPN
Solution for IBM Mainframes with Fully Clustered Load-Balancing Capabilities
Stonesoft announces the availability of its StoneGate™ firewall and VPN with active-active
cluster functionality for the IBM® eServer® zSeries. This new release extends Stonesoft's
award-winning firewall load-balancing technology to StoneGate for zSeries mainframes by offering
the industry's first fully clustered internal enterprise firewall and VPN solution with
load-balancing capabilities.
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Stonesoft introduces a remarkable innovation concerning
screening of data packets in a network node
We are proud to announce our latest breakthrough concerning screening of data packets in a
network node. The innovation improves performance and makes the rulebases more readable and
understandable. It is called "Screening of data packets in a gateway" and is an integral component
of the StoneGate™ High Availability Firewall and VPN. The innovation has just been granted a U.S.
patent (patent number US 6,996,573 B2), while a European patent is still pending.
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Release of StoneGate FW/VPN engine 2.6.3
Stonesoft is pleased to announce the release of StoneGate Firewall & VPN 2.6.3, a
maintenance release of the 2.6 product line.
Current maintenance customers of the StoneGate High Availability Firewall & VPN solution
from Stonesoft are entitled to complimentary upgrades for your StoneGate product. As such, we are
pleased to inform that StoneGate High Availability Firewall/VPN v2.6.3 for Intel (including
StoneGate appliances) is available for download at our
website.
This new version 2.6.3 is a maintenance release containing a number of fixes and/or workarounds
to known technical issues. Please refer to
Release Notes for a complete list of fixes.
If you have any questions
regarding your licensing, you can contact Stonesoft Order Services at
order@stonesoft.com. Questions regarding your maintenance
can be directed to
maintenance@stonesoft.com.
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StoneGate IPS 1.2.3 Maintenance Release
Stonesoft is pleased to announce the release of StoneGate IPS 1.2.3, a maintenance release of
the 1.2 product line.
Current maintenance customers of the StoneGate IPS solution from Stonesoft are entitled to
complimentary upgrades of your StoneGate product. As such, we are pleased to inform that StoneGate
IPS v1.2.3 available for download at our
website.
This new version 1.2.3, is a maintenance release containing a number of fixes or workarounds to
known technical issues. Please refer to
Release Notes for complete list of fixes.
If you have any questions
regarding your licensing, you can contact Stonesoft Order Services at
order@stonesoft.com. Questions regarding your maintenance
can be directed to
maintenance@stonesoft.com.
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