Monday, June 25, 2007
Palo Alto Networks Delivers Next-Generation Firewall for Application Visibility and Policy ControlPalo Alto Networks today announced immediate availability of its PA-4000 Series, a next-generation firewall that gives organizations unmatched visibility into, and policy control over, applications flowing in and out of their networks. The PA-4000 Series is based on patent-pending traffic classification technology which enables the accurate identification of hundreds of applications that pass undetected though traditional firewalls. Organizations that deploy this technology can benefit from improved policy compliance, enhanced threat mitigation and lower operational costs.
Palo Alto Networks was founded by security industry visionary Nir Zuk, one of the creators of the stateful inspection technology upon which today’s multibillion dollar firewall industry is based. Zuk previously served as CTO at NetScreen Technologies and as principal engineer at Check Point Software Technologies. He has been joined at Palo Alto Networks by industry veterans from Check Point, NetScreen, McAfee, Blue Coat Systems, Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. The company also announced today that it has secured $18 million in Series B financing from Globespan Capital Partners, Greylock Partners and Sequoia Capital. This brings total financing to $28 million. (See Release: Palo Alto Networks Raises $18 Million in Series B Financing)
| Posted by Kevin Kosh on 06/25 at 08:07 AM | Read More • Tell-a-Friend |
Thursday, June 14, 2007
GTA Releases GB-OS 5.0 Firewall UTM SoftwareGlobal Technology Associates, Inc. (GTA), a worldwide leader in cost-effective network security solutions, today released GB-OS 5.0, the next evolution of GTA firewall system software. GB-OS 5.0 focuses on advancements to perimeter security by offering unified threat management (UTM) features for GTA firewall systems.
In GB-OS 5.0, GTA has incorporated a robust Intrusion Prevention System into GTA’s core GB-OS system software. When used in conjunction with Mail Sentinel Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam and Surf Sentinel content filtering, GTA firewall UTM systems offer a comprehensive perimeter security solution.
| Posted by Rochelle Richards on 06/14 at 11:51 AM | Read More • Tell-a-Friend |
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Network Diagnostics and Troubleshooting With SolarWinds Engineer’s ToolsetSolarWinds, a leader in network management software, today announced the availability of Engineer’s Toolset v. 9.0. Engineer’s Toolset v. 9.0 introduces the industry’s first true real-time NetFlow analysis tool; enabling network engineers to quickly and easily drill down and troubleshoot network traffic issues and remediate network issues from their desktop. SolarWinds will showcase the latest version of Engineer’s Toolset in the company’s booth #1858 at Interop.
Engineer’s Toolset is a suite of 48 applications that installs in minutes and enables network engineers to quickly address virtually every network engineering challenge from configuration management, network discovery/mapping and fault management to bandwidth and network performance monitoring. Engineer’s Toolset was the first product introduced by SolarWinds in 1998 to provide network engineers with real solutions that address the tough every-day problems faced by network engineers. Engineer’s Toolset is now used by more than 30,000 network engineers worldwide and continues to grow in popularity in the network engineering community.
| Posted by Susan Torrey on 05/23 at 08:05 AM | Read More • Tell-a-Friend |
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Distinct Network Monitor version 5 releasedDistinct Corporation announced the release of version 5 of Distinct Network Monitor, a popular tool among software developers and system administrators that helps pinpoint problems with network traffic and provides detailed statistical information about that traffic.
Version 5 includes an enhanced reporting system that details network usage down to the last packet captured. Its enhanced capture driver and parsing engine allow the product to work with higher volumes of traffic than before. With enhancements to almost all its previous features Network Monitor now adds the ability to capture the network statistics directly to an Access database file, making the way for it’s new report builder to create ever more detailed reports on the traffic that is on a particular network segment. The new report builder comes with several predefined templates that look at different aspects of the statistics gathered, as well as the capability to build custom templates for different levels of detail in reports.
| Posted by Christine Apap-Bologna on 04/19 at 07:31 AM | Read More • Tell-a-Friend |
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Secure Open-Source NetFlow Probe for Gigabit NetworksnPulse Networks LLC, a leading integrator of hardware acceleration tools for open-source network security and monitoring applications, has announced a new security-hardened release of its nProbe appliance. nProbe is a highly-tuned, light-weight NetFlow probe, derived from the open-source ntop project managed by Luca Deri (http://www.ntop.org/). nPulse is the commercial representative of ntop.org in North America.
| Posted by Peter Shaw on 03/21 at 10:05 AM | Read More • Tell-a-Friend |
Monday, March 12, 2007
Check Point VPN-1 Power Sets New Industry Standard for Security PerformanceCheck Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq:CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced that the new VPN-1® Power NGX R65, an integrated firewall, VPN and intrusion prevention gateway, has successfully set a significant new industry performance standard for combined firewall and intrusion prevention speeds through an open server: 12 Gigabits per second (Gbps) for firewall throughput and up to 5.1 Gbps intrusion prevention throughput.
| Posted by Anne Marie McCauley on 03/12 at 09:19 AM | Read More • Tell-a-Friend |
Meru Networks Maximizes WLAN Security for Converged Networks with 'Application-Aware' Capabilities
Meru Networks, the leader in standards-based mobility infrastructure solutions for the All-Wireless Enterprise, today announced AirShield™ Security Suite 2.0, the first wireless local-area network (WLAN) security offering that simultaneously prevents RF threats while assuring application availability and continuous quality-of-service (QoS) in converged voice and data networks.
| Posted by Lisa Schiltz on 03/12 at 09:10 AM | Read More • Tell-a-Friend |
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
AirMagnet Delivers Remote Wireless LAN Analysis Solution for Cisco’s Unified Wireless NetworkAirMagnet Inc., the award-winning leader in wireless network assurance solutions, announced the release of a major new software product, Enterprise Analyzer for Cisco, designed from the ground up for customers of the Cisco Unified Wireless Network. The Enterprise Analyzer for Cisco works with already-deployed Cisco lightweight access points (APs) to collect wireless data for real-time analysis and optional reporting, as well as provides network tools to help optimize Wi-Fi performance. Real-time analysis can be done anywhere in the Cisco network, including remote locations.
| Posted by Laura Geary on 02/20 at 10:00 AM | Read More • Tell-a-Friend |
Monday, January 29, 2007
NitroSecurity Unveils Industry’s Highest Performance Security Information Management SolutionNitroSecurity, a leading provider of high-performance network security monitoring, analysis and protection solutions, today announced the general availability of its next generation NitroView Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) with Integrated Network and Security (INS) architecture – based on the Company’s patented NitroEDBTM relational database technology. The Company will be giving live demonstrations of NitroView ESM’s 100x performance advantage at the upcoming RSA Conference in San Francisco (booth #451), February 5th-9th.
NitroView ESM is an appliance-based solution offering centralized network and security information management capable of true relational “deep packet” aggregation and correlation of millions of network flows and security events in real-time. This enables enterprises, for the first time, to combine the needs of real-time security event management with forensic log analysis into one ultra high-performance, massively scalable solution at a cost point below that of individual stand alone solutions. The latest version of NitroView ESM collects logs, events and flow information from a wide variety of network and security solutions, including: NetFlow, sFlow, firewalls and IDS/IPSs, allowing enterprises to easily integrate NitroView ESM into an existing security infrastructure.
| Posted by Frank Hayes on 01/29 at 02:21 PM | Read More • Tell-a-Friend |
3Com Creates Open Platform That Integrates Applications into the Network Infrastructure
Capitalizing on a growing demand for network solutions that deliver intelligence, flexibility, performance and control, 3Com Corporation today launched 3Com® Open Services Networking (3Com OSN). 3Com OSN is the first step in the company’s strategy to differentiate its secure, converged network solutions through an open, interoperable architecture, which offers the flexibility and innovation of a best-of-breed model combined with the simplicity and cost savings of the integrated, single-vendor structure.
3Com OSN challenges how networks are built by enabling a rich and diverse set of third-party, open source and 3Com applications and services to run seamlessly inside the network infrastructure. OSN is the industry’s first open platform that integrates best-of-breed applications into the network infrastructure, enabling organizations to deliver differentiated services, operational simplicity and cost savings, while proactively addressing ever-changing business needs.
| Posted by Joseph Vukson on 01/29 at 02:08 PM | Read More • Tell-a-Friend |