Press Release
Stonesoft partners with the University of Glamorgan to carry out academic research into Advanced Evasion Techniques
Helsinki, Finland, 4 October, 2011 – Stonesoft, the network
security vendor that discovered Advanced Evasion Techniques (AETs), today announced a partnership
with The University of Glamorgan to conduct academic and field research into AETs.
Advanced Evasion Techniques are an evolution of traditional evasions, providing
hackers with a back-door key to any vulnerable system. Using AETs, hackers can disguise malware to
deliver it past security appliances completely undetected.
Stonesoft and the University of Glamorgan will be working closely together in order to carry
out extensive research into AETs to help better understand the severity of the threat. Stonesoft is
providing the university with its anti-evasion testing tool, which allows IT security staff to test
if their networks are vulnerable to AETs. The tool will allow the university’s computer forensics
team to conduct field research in their labs.
“We are thrilled to be working with Stonesoft and carrying out research into Advanced Evasion
Techniques. We believe AETs pose a serious threat to network security and have already seen
evidence of hackers using them in the wild. It is also very promising to see that Stonesoft is
taking the threat posed by evasions seriously as they have been overlooked by many in the past,”
said professor
Andrew Blyth, head of advanced technology at The University
of Glamorgan.
The University of Glamorgan is recognised as a centre of excellence for information security
and computer forensics. The university has an Information Security Research Group which carries out
research into network security, intrusion detection and wireless security, and it is the one of the
few universities in the UK which carries out network forensics for the UK government.
“We are very excited about working so closely with the University of Glamorgan. They have the
most advanced IT security department in the UK and we believe they are very well equipped to carry
out the highly technical research this will require. The university carries out testing for the UK
government and these, and the pharmaceutical and financial industries, are the types of targets
that we believe are most vulnerable to AETs,” says
Ash Patel, country manager for UK and Ireland at Stonesoft.
Stonesoft is currently the lead researcher in AETs and has discovered that they can be used
successfully against almost all security solutions currently available on the market. Stonesoft’s
discovery was reported to the CERT-FI (Computer Emergency Response Team in Finland) in October last
year.
For more information about AETs, please visit
www.stonesoft.com
and
www.antievasion.com.
Contact:
For more information, please contact:Klaus Majewski
Director, Business Development
Stonesoft Corporation
Tel. +358 40 824 7908
E-mail: klaus.majewski(AT)stonesoft.com
About Stonesoft
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,
www.antievasion.com and the corporate blog
http://stoneblog.stonesoft.com.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
