StoneGate Firewall version 2.6.1 ICSA IPSec certified
StoneGate Firewall version 2.6.1 has achieved the ICSA IPSec certification. The certification
ensures VPN compatibility with all major firewall manufacturers.
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the entire test, including detailed notes.
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Stonesoft reinforce its position in France and confirm its
ambitions in this market
Stonesoft is expanding its French sales structure in order to enforce its position in the key
local target markets, such as healthcare, finance, government organizations and services. Stonesoft
recently appointed Léonard Dahan as Country Manager France, and moved its sales team into new
premises in Paris (Levallois-Perret). This way, Stonesoft is reinforcing its direct customer touch
through its Sales and Presales Executives, as well as its value-added partner network. The new
address is: Stonesoft France, 120, rue Jean Jaurès, 92300 Levallois. Phone: +33 (0)1 47 56 20 07.
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more here.
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New Partner in France
Stonesoft signed a partner contract in the end of December 2005 with DCI.
DCI is a company specialized in new information technologies and especially security solutions.
Its offer as total solutions aims to answer the complete needs and requirements of its customers.
DCI responds to the problems of the convergent infrastructures overall and is based on a range of
services and solutions dedicated to the infrastructure network.
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Meet us at the SHARE User Event in Seattle, WA
The enemies are at the gates, or even worse, already inside them. Perimeter defenses are
penetrated every day by viruses, worms and other malware. Is Linux on VM really immune from
threats? Mark Boltz, Senior Sales Engineer at Stonesoft, is speaker at the SHARE user event in
Seattle, WA, on March 8
th at 8:00 AM (Washington State Convention and Trade Center).
This two-part hands-on lab will introduce the attendee to the hacker's mentality, the vectors of
attack, and how to perform basic vulnerability assessment using the same tools that the enemy uses.
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more here.
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Stonesoft managed the overall network security successfully
at the World Summit on the Information Society (COSMSI)
Stonesoft was a main partner and offered network security expertise and knowledge to the World
Summit on the Information Society (COSMSI) held in Tunis in November 2005. National delegations
from 174 countries and participants from more than 800 entities including UN agencies, private
sector companies and civil society organizations attended the summit. All in all 20 000
participants took part in this huge three-day event. Stonesoft took care of the network security
with its StoneGate Firewall and IPS.
Stonesoft ensured the global connections during the summit and supported by its own input the
equal access to information. The ensuring of a secure and reliable network was of major importance
and first priority during this remarkable event, where several hundred thousand suspicious events
were detected in the network.
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more here.
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Layer It Up
It's hard to imagine all of the possible threats to a network. It seems as though there are
endless internal and external vulnerabilities that must be accounted for. It's become clear that
the best possible solution to address these concerns is a layered defense approach.
Read the whole article regarding layered defense written by Klaus Majewski, IPS product manager
at Stonesoft. In the article Majewski discusses, among other things, about the challenge of
managing multiple layers.
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more here.
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Stonesoft is Securing Data from CERN
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is using Stonesoft´s security products to
ensure the network security of open Grid network and LHC project. CERN is building a new large
Hadron Collider (LHC) to create and collect information about materia. Stonesoft is working with
CERN to analyze the data coming from LHC to Grid network.
The LHC is the flagship project for the world's particle physics community. Experiments at the
LHC will allow physicists to complete a journey that started with Newton's description of gravity.
Gravity acts on mass, but so far science is unable to explain why the fundamental particles have
the masses they have. Experiments at the LHC may provide the answer. LHC experiments will also
probe the mysterious missing mass and dark energy of the universe – visible matter seems to account
for just 5% of what must exist. They will investigate the reason for nature's preference for matter
over antimatter, and they will probe matter as it existed at the very beginning of time.
More information about the case will be provided later on.
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North Cheshire Hospitals Trust chooses Stonesoft’s StoneGate
platform to replace and strengthen its firewall security
The North Cheshire Hospitals Trust, an NHS Trust providing high quality health care services in
the U.K., is the latest organisation to improve the resilience and manageability of its firewall
infrastructure by deploying Stonesoft’s StoneGate Security Platform. NHS Trust adds true resilience
to a security infrastructure covering multiple acute hospital sites, by adding Stonesoft’s
clustered firewall and end-to-end centralised management system.
Stonesoft is experienced in providing for the security and continuity needs of health care
organisations. It can provide the products, services and support required to ensure: secures
transmission and handling of health care data; reduced reporting burden with automated, scheduled,
and detailed reports; significantly reduced security administration costs with intelligent
centralised management; low administration costs; reduced risk of non-compliance with regulations;
and improved productivity due to increased medical staff satisfaction and utilisation of IT
systems.
More information about the case will be provided later on.
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