Newsletter on Security Trends including Gartner
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Stonesoft´s Network Security Solutions To Be Part of
Fujitsu´s Service Offering
Stonesoft has signed a contract with Fujitsu Services. This contract covers product, maintenance
and service sales of Stonesoft´s network security products in Fujitsu´s service offering. The goal
of the co-operation is to offer comprehensive ICT-solutions, including Stonesoft´s network security
solutions that maintain business continuity, to Fujitsu´s customers.The contract broadens Fujitsu´s
network security service offering that currently covers the Nordics and the Baltic countries.
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We can in the future offer Stonesoft´s existing customers overall services to support their
existing solutions. Customers that use network security solutions from Stonesoft can continue to
use the platform they are familiar with. It is possible to purchase the solutions both as a single
service and as a part of Fujitsu´s basic data technology model called Patja, says Mika Hyppönen,
Development Manager at Fujitsu.
Read
more here.
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Secure In the Knowledge
In business, it's easy to become comfortable with technology, reassured that perimeter defences
are in place to protect individual employees. But what if this year hackers decide to stop
attacking your businesses servers, and instead switch their sights to a new, softer target - your
desktop?
What
happens then?
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IPS and Zero Day Protection
There is a lot of talk about the supposed "Zero Day Protection" from several security vendors at
the moment.
But what does it mean? Product Manager Klaus Majewski discusses more about the topic
here.
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Recent Annual Report Available Online
Our annual report website has been published.
Check it online
here.
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New office in Madrid
Stonesoft has expanded its Spanish team both on the commercial and technical side and moved into
new premises in Madrid (Parque Empresarial Ática). The new premises include also a training class
and several courses will take place this spring and summer.
- StoneGate FW&VPN Training Course: 5-9 of June
- StoneGate IPS Fundamentals Course: 20–22 of June
For more details, visit:
http://www.stonesoft.com/en/training/schedules/Madrid/
The new address is:
Stonesoft Espana S.A.
Parque Empresarial Atica, Edificio 5
Avenida de Europa, 26- 2ª Planta
28224 Pozuelo de Alarcón - Madrid
tel: +34 91 499 49 09
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Stonesoft Appoints Country Manager for DACH Region
Stonesoft has appointed Mr. Hermann Klein to the post of Country Manager for the DACH (Germany,
Austria, Switzerland) region. Hermann has a university degree in electrical engineering and data
processing, and almost 20 years experience in IT-industry in EMEA region. Hermann starts in his new
position at 1st June.
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StoneGate IPS 2.0 and StoneGate Management Center 3.5
shipping
Stonesoft is pleased to announce the general availability of StoneGate IPS 2.0, and StoneGate
Management Center 3.5. Also today we will start shipping new IPS appliances.
The costs of security incidents can be surprisingly high. These costs result from investigating
the incident, limiting the scope and magnitude of it, and recovering from the incident. If and when
we can prevent the damage altogether, the cost savings can be quite significant. StoneGate IPS 2.0
comes with inline IPS mode, in which all the packets are examined before they are passed on. By
dropping malicious packets and connections immediately, StoneGate IPS prevents the damage from
worms and other attacks. This protects unpatched systems and gives organization more time to patch
their systems.
The unified management of StoneGate security gateways does not just give administrators a clear
overview of what happens in their network, but it also leads to significant cost savings. In
addition to a view to the security situation, StoneGate Management Center gives both high and
detail-level information on the status of the connectivity and of the system itself. This
information is vital for the administrators' ability to react quickly to possible problems related
to security, network traffic, or the system itself. This ensures continuous resource availability
to the business processes.
In StoneGate Management Center 3.5 the amount of items that can be monitored has been extended
significantly. In addition, the communication performance of information monitoring has been
improved significantly. This means that the monitoring scales up better in very large networks. As
part of our continual improvements in reducing the total cost of ownership, the ability to
centrally configure and manage large numbers of security gateways has been streamlined and improved
to a new level in this release. Additionally, IPS configuration has been simplified so that it is
more intuitive and easy to use, yet still powerful. These usability enhancements together with
improved manageability reduce the costs of daily administration, the most expensive component of
the total cost of ownership.
For more information on the new IPS appliances, please visit our website at:
www.stonesoft.com/en/products_and_solutions/supported_platforms/
All current maintenance customers of the StoneGate Security Platform solution from Stonesoft are
entitled to complimentary version upgrades for those StoneGate products, for which they have
purchased a license. The new versions are available through our website at:
https://my.stonesoft.com/download.do.
The Release Notes for all the versions can be found
here
.
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.
Stonesoft values customer comments and feedback on our products and services. Our products have
been designed to meet the demands and requirements of our customers, and we continue to develop
solutions to enable the secure, highly available enterprise. If you have any suggestions or
feedback, please let us know at
sales@stonesoft.com.
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Stonesoft wins Reader Trust and Overall Best Network
Security Solution at SC Magazine Awards 2006
Stonesoft Corp. has proudly carried off two prominent and coveted awards at the SC Magazine
European Excellence Awards 2006, hosted by Secure Computing Magazine, the leading industry magazine
for IT Security professionals. The SC Magazine European Excellence Awards 2006 took place on the
evening of Tuesday 25 April 2006 at The Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London.
www.scmagazine.com/uk/ Stonesoft’s innovative StoneGate
High Availability Firewall won the prestigious Reader Trust award for the Best Enterprise Firewall
category, and was also the overall winner of the Best Network Security Solution.
The new StoneGate releases will be available in May 2006.
Read
more here.
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StoneGate Firewall & VPN 2.6.4 and VPN Client
2.6.2
Stonesoft is pleased to announce the release of StoneGate Firewall & VPN 2.6.4 and VPN
Client 2.6.2, which are both maintenance releases of the 2.6 product line. StoneGate Firewall &
VPN 2.6.4 and VPN Client 2.6.2 contain a number of fixes and/or work arounds to known technical
issues.
Stonesoft customers with current support and maintenance contracts are entitled to free upgrades
to the StoneGate Management Center and StoneGate Firewall & VPN available from,
https://my.stonesoft.com/download.do.
Those customers without a current support and maintenance contract are requested to contact
their local Stonesoft Sales representative to inquire about their maintenance and/or upgrade
options.
StoneGate customers can contact Stonesoft Order Services at
order@stonesoft.com, if they have any questions regarding
the StoneGate licensing. They can view the status of their maintenance contract from our License
Center at
https://my.stonesoft.com/license/. Other
questions relating to maintenance can be directed to
maintenance@stonesoft.com.
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