Stonesoft Upgrades Security Platform with New Disaster Recovery Features

Business Wire, June 5, 2007

Strengthens StoneGate Secure Connectivity Solution with High Availability Management Component for Disaster Recovery Best Practices

ATLANTA -- Stonesoft Corporation, an innovative provider of integrated network security and resilient connectivity solutions, today announced the StoneGate Management Center and Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) 4.0 with features that increase overall business continuity and threat detection. The new versions, which are part of the latest StoneGate[TM] Secure Connectivity Solution, provide disaster recovery capabilities for backup security systems control in the event of a network failure and smarter detection features to prevent encoded data attacks.

The new version of the StoneGate Management Center is designed to meet disaster recovery best practices with a high-availability utility that allows organizations to cluster up to five management devices - one primary and four standby units - for distributed and enhanced network security control. With real-time data replication across all management servers, the StoneGate Management Center can provide an up-to-date view of security policies, configuration and security device status, alerts, and reports in the event of a data center loss.

"This year is forecasted to be one of the busiest Atlantic Ocean hurricane seasons, making it critical for coastal area companies to ensure that kernel networks are backed up, eliminating a single point of failure. We help companies integrate network technologies with seamless failover and flexible management, giving them access to remote systems and ensuring business continuity in the wake of a disaster," said Gavin Dent, director of business development for CCS Group Limited. "As a Bermuda-based network integrator, our enterprise customers need effective network security tools to support contingency plans. Based on experience working with Stonesoft solutions, the StoneGate Platform consistently maintains our customers' connectivity, despite power outages."

StoneGate Management Center 4.0's latest disaster recovery enhancements further complement Stonesoft's superior business continuity solutions, including Multi-Link technology. Stonesoft's patented Multi-Link technology provides customers with continuous uptime, ISP load balancing and efficient Internet connectivity. This is a critical piece of the StoneGate Platform - a unified centrally managed firewall, VPN and IPS - that provides increased value to distributed organizations that require reliable and flexible network security tools to maintain always-on connectivity.

Stonesoft also is releasing its new IPS software, version 4.0, which offers increased threat prevention against HTTP POST attacks (see recent release: StoneGate[TM] IPS Detects and Blocks Attacks That Use New Evasion Techniques Announced by CERT/CC) through the use of regular expressions and protocol anomaly detection. Traditional IPS solutions rely on signatures to define intrusions and do not currently have the capabilities to fully decode Fullwidth Unicode encoded HTTP POST data - a vulnerability that leaves Web servers open to attacks. With regular expressions, Stonesoft developed a more sophisticated signatures approach that not only identifies the host attack but can also intercept all of its variants, eliminating the need to create numerous signatures. Available now, StoneGate IPS 4.0 offers a more advanced method of scanning network traffic and can identify types of encoding variations, eliminating emerging security threats to Web servers.

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The new StoneGate(TM) Management Center 4.0 and StoneGate(TM) IPS 4.0 are currently shipping to customers.

About Stonesoft Corporation

Stonesoft Corporation (HEX:SFT1V) is an innovative provider of integrated network security and resilient connectivity solutions. Stonesoft is a global company focused on enterprise level customers requiring advanced network security and always-on business connectivity with low TCO, the best price-to-performance ratio, and the highest ROI. The StoneGate[TM] Platform unifies firewall, VPN and IPS, blending network security, end-to-end availability and award-winning load balancing into a 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