Monday, November 20, 2006
Advanced Firewall Raises the Bar for Unified Threat Management AppliancesSmoothWall announced the latest version of Advanced Firewall, its multi-function network security solution for demanding enterprise security requirements. New additions in this version include automatic fail-over to a standby system, improved load balancing, VoIP gateway protection and spam filtering.
“This new version of Advanced Firewall includes many innovative new features and builds upon existing strengths, particularly in areas such as load balancing,” said George Lungley, managing director of SmoothWall. “We have added new ways to control the distribution of outgoing traffic across multiple network connections, along with the load balancing of incoming traffic. With support for up to 20 network connections and the automatic re-routing of traffic in the event of a connection failure, this all adds up to a pretty powerful load balancing capability for improved performance and reliability.”
| Posted by Jeff Fishburn on 11/20 at 08:54 AM | Read More • Tell-a-Friend |
Monday, November 13, 2006
Rackspace Introduces Enhanced Network Security with Invision Security ApplianceRackspace Managed Hosting™, a recognized leader in the global managed hosting market, today announced the addition of Invision Security Appliance, an enterprise-class Intrusion Detection System that combines multi-layer threat management technology and comprehensive monitoring with the company’s renowned Fanatical Support™ to automatically detect network threats. Rackspace extends its security expertise with the launch of Invision IDS, adding to the hosting specialist’s fully-integrated suite of managed security services and products.
Invision’s ActiveWatch Monitoring ServiceSM provides SANS-certified network security analysts to monitor network activity and conduct extensive protection and security reviews to detect network threats such as worms, Trojans, BotNets and unauthorized intruders in real time. Invision also leverages thousands of threat signatures to automatically block network attacks with an enhanced scanning capability that monitors incoming traffic for signatures that are only a threat to each respective environment, reducing the false positive rate.
| Posted by Annalie Drusch on 11/13 at 10:40 AM | Read More • Tell-a-Friend |
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
SolarWinds Improves Network Visibility and Performance with Orion NetFlow Traffic AnalyzerSolarWinds, a leader in network management software, today announced Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NetFlow Traffic Analyzer), a new module in the Orion Network Management Platform (Orion). SolarWinds will be previewing the new module on their website at http://www.solarwinds.net starting today.
Network engineers continually face the substantial challenge of maintaining performance and availability of enterprise-class networks without sufficient knowledge of which users and which applications are consuming network bandwidth and without adequate visibility into anomalous patterns of network traffic that indicate malicious activities. Without a holistic view of network bandwidth usage, network engineers cannot quickly diagnose or prevent network problems or properly match network capacity to business needs.
| Posted by Susan Torrey on 11/07 at 11:00 AM | Read More • Tell-a-Friend |
Monday, November 06, 2006
Top Layer Networks Releases Network Security AnalyzerTop Layer Networks, a global leader for high performance intrusion prevention solutions, today announced the availability of Network Security Analyzer (NSA) v4.6. Top Layer’s Network Security Analyzer provides security event management, real-time alerting and flexible reporting for users of the company’s IPS 5500 intrusion prevention solution.
Top Layer’s Network Security Analyzer helps organizations save time and effort in day-to-day security monitoring and incident response by providing enterprise-wide security intelligence. Used in conjunction with Top Layer’s IPS 5500, NSA 4.6 includes real-time monitoring and correlated alerting, forensics and investigative root cause analysis, reporting and monitoring portals, and compliance audit lifecycle management to help companies strengthen their overall security posture.
| Posted by Donna Rogers on 11/06 at 02:12 PM | Read More • Tell-a-Friend |
Tenable Network Security Releases Nessus 3 for Windows Platform
Tenable Network Security, Inc., a leading developer of security management solutions and creator of the popular and award-winning Nessus vulnerability scanner, announced today the immediate general availability of Nessus 3.0.4 for UNIX, OSX and the much anticipated Windows version. The changes and enhancements to Nessus will benefit over 75,000 organizations worldwide which utilize the vulnerability detection tool. According to a survey conducted by the Institute for Applied Network Security, “75% of major organizations are using Nessus.”
| Posted by Patrice Bourgeois on 11/06 at 02:05 PM | Read More • Tell-a-Friend |