Press Release
StoneGate IPS provides pre-emptive protection against the latest Microsoft vulnerability
Helsinki, Finland – 24 October 2008 – Stonesoft, an innovative provider of integrated network security and business continuity solutions, has today announced its StoneGate IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) provides pre-emptive protection against the latest vulnerability announced by Microsoft. StoneGate customers have had full protection against this most recent vulnerability since August 2006.
Yesterday, on 23 October, Microsoft provided an emergency fix for a critical vulnerability in their system. The Stonesoft Vulnerability Analysis Team discovered that Stonesoft already offers pre-emptive protection for the vulnerability in question. Thus, all Stonesoft customers that use StoneGate IPS to protect their Windows networks are protected against this vulnerability.
“We are proud to say our StoneGate customers already have full protection against this most recent vulnerability. This proves that StoneGate signatures cover more than just one attack: they provide protection against many variations of the attack that uses the same or similar vulnerability. So, it is not the number of signatures that counts, but the quality and coverage of that fingerprint that matters”, said Klaus Majewski, Vice President of Marketing at Stonesoft.
“Microsoft released an Out-of-Band security advisory regarding a critical security flaw that allows system level remote compromise in the Server service that affects all supported versions of Windows. However, StoneGate IPS has a pre-emptive signature that terminates attacks exploiting this vulnerability”, explains Olli-Pekka Niemi, Vulnerability Expert and team leader of the Vulnerability Analysis team at Stonesoft.
“This fingerprint situation has been included in the default policy since 11 August 2006. Our customers do not have to do anything: they have full protection against this vulnerability”, Niemi continues.
For more information about the vulnerability, please visit
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-067.mspx
For more information about StoneGate IPS, please visit:
http://www.stonesoft.com/en/products_and_solutions/products/ips/features/
About Stonesoft Corporation
Stonesoft Corporation (NASDAQ OMX: SFT1V) is an innovative provider of integrated network security solutions to secure the information flow of distributed organizations. Stonesoft customers include enterprises with growing business needs requiring advanced network security and always-on business connectivity.
StoneGate™ secure connectivity solution unifies firewall, VPN, IPS and SSL VPN blending network security, end-to-end availability and award-winning load balancing into a unified and centrally managed system. The key benefits of StoneGate secure connectivity solution include low TCO, excellent price-performance ratio and high ROI. The virtual StoneGate solution protects the network and ensures business continuity in both virtual and physical network environments.
StoneGate Management Center provides unified management for StoneGate Firewall with VPN, IPS and SSL VPN. StoneGate Firewall and IPS work together to provide intelligent defence all over the enterprise network while StoneGate SSL VPN provides enhanced security for mobile and remote use.
Founded in 1990, Stonesoft Corporation is a global company with corporate headquarters in Helsinki, Finland and Americas headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. For more information, visit www.stonesoft.com.
For more details, please contact:
Stonesoft Corporation
Klaus Majewski, Vice President of Marketing
Tel. +358 9 476 711
E-mail:
klaus.majewski@stonesoft.com
Friday, October 24, 2008