Stonesoft demonstrates Secure Information Flow with StoneGate IPS technology trial

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Addressing recent heightened suspicions of network espionage, Stonesoft is providing a free 10-day trial installation of StoneGate IPS, a powerful and simple to use network intrusion protection system

HELSINKI, Finland 26th of September, 2006 Stonesoft Corporation, the leading innovator in optimised integrated network security technology, has developed a brand new solution for further securing the information flow. Recent trends in network security have proved that perimeter security alone is no longer sufficient protection against malicious intrusions. Along with external threats, company servers are increasingly facing additional internal threats that arise, for example, when connecting laptops to internal networks.



Stonesoft has developed a new IPS solution for its award-winning StoneGate Platform to meet these concerns head-on. StoneGate IPS detects harmful traffic and stops it, avoiding potential damages caused by worms, spyware and other malicious intrusions. StoneGate IPS removes these threats from corporate network traffic, securing business continuity, reducing unplanned service breaks, and increasing overall productivity of business operations.

The free trial version of StoneGate IPS is extremely easy for customers to use. They dont require any IPS know-how or additional resources for the duration of the trial period. explains Klaus Majewski, product marketing manager at Stonesoft. Our experts install the system and follow the operation during a trial period of ten days, ensuring the trial does not cause any extra work for the customers IT staff. By offering IPS for trial we give our customers a chance to discover the true benefits of IPS in a real production environment at their own premises. In addition, this ensures the customer gets a clear picture of internal network traffic thanks to the reports and analysis produced during that trial period.

StoneGate IPS detects intrusions that are not picked up by firewalls alone. Some features of StoneGate IPS are already patented and several features are patent-pending. Stonesoft believes that because an intrusion protection system stops traffic abuse and removes malicious traffic from corporate networks, many companies have already been able to reduce extra working hours for their IT teams.

Majewski continues: Companies and communities are more and more interested in learning what is happening inside internal networks. The centralised management of StoneGate IPS intensifies the reporting of the network traffic and helps to solve detected network intrusions. Centralised management also ensures resource optimisation as a support tool for overall business operations. We have a good example of a multi-national company that was able to considerably reduce its network auditing overheads as a direct result of deploying StoneGate IPS. Instead of 52 annual audits taking a week apiece to conduct, for example, each audit took just two days. That saved them 156 days per year

Thanks to efficient reporting we can detect intrusion trends from a large number of logs. One of our Finnish customers paid attention to an unexpectedly large number of Domain Name Service (DNS) protocol violations. It turned out that the customers DNS server had been cracked and information had leaked outside the company. Without the reporting information produced by IPS it would have been extremely difficult to detect this intrusion, Majewski says.

About Stonesoft Corporation
Stonesoft Corporation (HEX: SFT1V) is an innovative provider of integrated network security and business continuity. Stonesoft is a global company focused on enterprise level customers requiring advanced network security and always-on business connectivity with low TCO, best price-to-performance ratio, and highest ROI. StoneGate Security Platform unifies firewall, VPN and IPS, blending network security, end-to-end availability and award-winning load balancing into a unified and centrally managed system for distributed enterprises.

Founded in 1990, Stonesoft Corporation has corporate headquarters in Helsinki, Finland and Americas headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. For more information, visit: www.stonesoft.com
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