Press Release
New StoneGate Management Center Visualizes Physical and Virtual Network Security
Centralized management with intuitive graphical monitoring
Atlanta – May 27, 2008 – Stonesoft, an innovative provider of
integrated network security and resilient connectivity solutions, today introduced StoneGate
Management Center 4.3 for advanced centralized management. The product offers enhanced visibility
and control over network security in both traditional and virtual network environments.
The new StoneGate Management Center offers a fully customizable, graphical monitoring portal,
an executive summary on the network security status and a real time view of the network. The
product lowers the threshold for security administrators to start protecting virtual environments,
because they can be managed exactly like regular network security appliances. This enables
organizations to immediately protect their fast growing virtual environments.
Centralized management of physical and virtual environments
“The StoneGate Management Center allows centralized management of all StoneGate security solutions through a single interface with superior usability features,” said Mark Boltz, Senior Solutions Architect for Stonesoft Americas. “This level of centralized management means that an administrator can view the whole security network at once: physical and virtual appliances, software elements, and now also StoneGate SSL VPN appliances. In practice, this single dashboard provides makes it very easy drill down into single events such as log entries, modify the related configurations and detect security gaps. Administrative procedures become faster, easier and more efficient - saving resources, nerves and costs.”Graphical monitoring
The new StoneGate Management Center 4.3 offers organizations an ideal tool for efficiently managing network security and availability. Network administrators can literally see the network from their desk. They can view diagrams about system components and their connectivity, as well as the status of these connections, benefiting from a clear, real-time overview of the current situation.
The graphical monitoring view shows the network status with simple color-coding. When the colors change from green to red, the administrators know that there is a problem. With the optimized workflow provided by StoneGate Management Center, administrators can quickly drill down to the problem directly from the graphical view, fix the error and return to the monitoring state.Reducing the possibility of human error
The product validates the security configurations, highlights defective rules and unintended security gaps. The advanced rule base validation tool helps finding configuration mistakes and optimizing security rules. Quickly identifying and resolving errors, saves money and results in higher customer satisfaction.Regulatory compliance
Achieving regulatory compliance requires a lot of time and resources, but StoneGate Management Center 4.3 provides excellent tools for offering fast and accurate information to auditors. Comprehensive audit reports contain information from logs and audit logs, including detailed inventories about engines and administrators, lists of used security settings and summaries about system changes. The advanced search functions help auditors to find what they are looking for. This reduces the time required for audits and brings substantial cost savings.Hardware monitoring
The new hardware-monitoring tool integrated in StoneGate Management Center provides detailed information on hardware status including interface status and settings, disk space, CPU temperatures, fan speeds and voltages. This allows remote problem solving and reduces maintenance costs.Availability
The StoneGate Management Center 4.3 will be available for shipping in June 2008.Videos
View videos about StoneGate Management Center:Introduction:
http://www.stonesoft.com/en/products_and_solutions/products/smc/videos/introduction/introduction.html
Log filtering:
http://www.stonesoft.com/en/products_and_solutions/products/smc/videos/logs/logs.html
Regulatory compliance:
http://www.stonesoft.com/en/products_and_solutions/products/smc/videos/regulatory/regulatory.html
About Stonesoft Corporation
Stonesoft Corporation (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 centrally managed system for both physical and virtual environments. The key benefits of StoneGate Secure Connectivity Solution include low TCO, excellent price-performance ratio and high ROI.
StoneGate Management Center provides centralized 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.
Contacts
For more details, please contact:Laurie Douglas
Stonesoft Inc.
678.578.8429
laurie.douglas@stonesoft.com
Jennifer Lake
Lois Paul & Partners
512.638.5313
jennifer_lake@lpp.com
Tuesday, May 27, 2008