Press Release
StoneGate 5.0 streamlines network security management and reduces costs
Clear overview of the security status and effectiveness of security investments
Helsinki, Finland – 28 April 2009 – Stonesoft, an innovative
provider of integrated network security and business continuity solutions, introduces the new
StoneGate Management Center 5.0 and StoneGate Firewall 5.0, offering new features and enhancements
that make the administration of distributed organizations easier and more efficient than ever
before.
“We at Stonesoft take great pride in working closely together with our customers and
listening to their feedback. The most recent features and enhancements in StoneGate 5.0 are
designed to make the lives of our customers easier and help them to successfully deal with the
current economical challenges. The new StoneGate 5.0 features are most remarkable in the history of
our offering, serving our target market perfectly and bringing out the key strengths of our
products: cost efficiency, flexibility and unparalleled usability”, said
Klaus Majewski, Vice President of Marketing at Stonesoft.
With the advanced reporting and auditing tools, IT management can provide a clear overview of
the organization’s security status and effectiveness of security investments to the top management.
They also reduce the time required for regulatory compliance audits, providing excellent material
for internal and external auditors.
The new third-party monitoring feature of StoneGate Management Center 5.0 collects all
security-related information for easy access and reporting. This extends the lifetime of existing
network infrastructure and gives the administrator a comprehensive overview of the security status.
This helps to prevent production downtime through proactive detection of security incidents before
they escalate.
StoneGate Management Center 5.0 offers unequaled tools for managing large distributed
environments with minimum effort. Several automated tasks and efficient use of templates and
reusable objects make administration processes more efficient and bring significant cost
savings.
The new Web Portal provides administrators a read only access to policies, logs and reports,
offering a light-weight GUI access even with a mobile device, without the need to install any
additional client software. This allows the administrator to monitor the security systems
efficiently at any time and from any location.
StoneGate 5.0 is the first to offer SSL inspection for client- and server-side. This
increases the organization’s end-to-end network security capabilities by protecting workstations,
internal networks, hosts and servers against attacks hidden inside the SSL tunnel. This capability
also further ensures regulatory compliance and data loss prevention.
"IT professionals participating in Nemertes research increasingly stress the importance of a
quick time-to-value for any new security or management tool," said
John Burke, principal research analyst with Nemertes
Research. "They want things that begin working in hours or days instead of weeks or months.
They also bemoan the continuing management tool sprawl that forces them to look in twelve places to
manage eleven things. Short on staff and short on time, they need tools that will let them
look less and see more, simplify as well as empower."
Availability
StoneGate Management Center 5.0 and StoneGate Firewall 5.0 are available in April 2009. StoneGate IPS 5.0 is available in June 2009.Contact
For more details, please contact:Klaus Majewski
VP, Marketing
Stonesoft Corporation
Tel. +358 9 476 711
E-mail: klaus.majewski@stonesoft.com
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 (Virtual Private Network), IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) 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 the solution include low TCO (Total Cost of Ownership), excellent price-performance ratio and high ROI (Return on Investment). The StoneGate Virtual Security Solutions protect the network and ensure 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 defense 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 and the corporate blog http://stoneblog.stonesoft.com.
Monday, April 27, 2009