StoneGate Management Center Geolocation Feature Shows the Origins of
Network Attacks
(Thomson Reuters ONE) - Helsinki, Finland -3 December 2009 - Stonesoft, an innovativeprovider of integrated network security and business continuitysolutions, offers organizations advanced opportunities to protecttheir network by showing the geographical location of network attacksand suspicious traffic. As a result, network administrators canidentify anomalous trends traffic and monitor the specific locationsfrom which network attacks are originating.The geolocation feature provided by StoneGate Management Centerprovides organizations with significantly improved situationawareness. In effect, organizations can defend their networkproactively."Abnormal, or strange-looking traffic, together with the informationprovided by the geolocation functionality provides organizations withtremendous insight. Network traffic is known to follow specifictrends, and the StoneGate geolocation feature is extremely fast topoint out if inappropriate traffic originates from inappropriatelocations, thus helping the administrator to validate between trueand false positives", says Klaus Majewski, VP of Marketing atStonesoft.The University of Paderborn in Germany uses StoneGate IPS with theStoneGate Management Center to protect their network environment."The StoneGate geolocation feature significantly helps us to identifythe origins of suspicious traffic. Based on this information, we canquickly decide whether we should blacklist a suspicious connection ornot, and we can also easily recognize a spuriously blacklisted caseor a false positive. This has helped us to react faster, raise thelevel of our network security and save time and costs", says BarbaraBajer, Head of Network Operations at University of Paderborn.Geographical location representations are resolved automatically fromthe GeoIP database which is integrated in the StoneGate ManagementCenter and updated along with the StoneGate Management Centerupgrades. The administrator can also specify geolocations for privatenetworks and address ranges.The StoneGate product family comprises of the StoneGate firewall/VPN,IPS and SSL VPN solutions, all of which run under the same unifiedmanagement. This provides a comprehensive view on network security,helps to minimize security risks and significantly reduces the totalcost of ownership (TCO) of large implementations.About Stonesoft CorporationStonesoft Corporation (NASDAQ OMX: SFT1V) is an innovative providerof integrated network security solutions to secure the informationflow of distributed organizations. Stonesoft customers includeenterprises with growing business needs requiring advanced networksecurity and always-on business connectivity.StoneGate(TM) Secure Connectivity Solution unifies firewall, VPN, IPSand SSL VPN blending network security, end-to-end availability andaward-winning load balancing into a unified and centrally managedsystem. The key benefits of the StoneGate solution include low TCO,excellent price-performance ratio and high ROI. The StoneGate VirtualSecurity Solutions protect the network and ensure business continuityin both virtual and physical network environments.StoneGate Management Center provides unified management for StoneGateFirewall with VPN, IPS and SSL VPN. StoneGate Firewall and IPS worktogether to provide intelligent defense all over the enterprisenetwork while StoneGate SSL VPN provides enhanced security for mobileand remote use.Founded in 1990, Stonesoft Corporation is a global company withcorporate headquarters in Helsinki, Finland and Americas headquartersin Atlanta, Georgia. For more information, visit www.stonesoft.comand the corporate blog http://stoneblog.stonesoft.com.For more details, please contact:Klaus MajewskiVP, MarketingStonesoft CorporationTel. +358 9 476 711E-mail: klaus.majewski(at)stonesoft.comhttp://hugin.info/120212/R/1358714/331033.pngThis announcement was originally distributed by Hugin. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.
Datum: 03.12.2009 - 09:16 Uhr
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