Jul 08
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The new
Web Portal user interface gives a light-weight web access to Logs, Policies and Reports. It is a convenient way to provide information for your customers or local administrators. The Web Portal is implemented as HTML what makes it usable even with a mobile phone. This is why the Web Portal is a useful tool even for the administrators themselves – you can start troubleshooting on the road.
See the video below to find out what information you can access to via Web Portal.
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Jul 06
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Reporting framework has been extensively revised in StoneGate Management Center 5.0. The video below summarizes the new workflows how to create report designs and run reports.
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Jul 03
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StoneGate Management Center 5.0 lets you easily see the geographical locations of IP addresses. That gives you new possibilities to identify deviations in network traffic trends by using
top rate statistics maps. Geographical locations are resolved from internal database that is included in StoneGate Management Center. Note that you can also specify
Geolocations for your private networks and address ranges. Click the video below to find out how Geolocations work in practice.
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Jul 01
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As you probably know already StoneGate 5.0 is able to inspect SSL encrypted traffic. In addition to better visibility on encrypted traffic, you can now also stop attacks that bypass perimeter security.
HTTPS inspection feature gives you the tools to protect internal workstations from malicious Web servers and protect Web services being compromized by unauthorized users.
How HTTPS inspection is configured in StoneGate? Have a look at the video below. This video demonstrates how HTTPS inspection can be used to protect the clients. Note that you can use StoneGate’s HTTPS inspaction for server protection too.
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Jun 29
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We will publish a serie of SMC training video articles here in StoneBlog. Those videos illustrate practical examples how you can configure things with StoneGate Management Center. All videos will be placed in
Videos section on
StoneBlog Community pages once they are published.
As an introduction to this serie of articles, click the video below and see what views StoneGate Management Center has and how the navigation has changed in StoneGate Management Center 5.0.
written by Tero Jantunen - 1,613 views
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Mar 16
With the help of StoneGate 5.0 administrators can configure HTML user responses that are shown in the end user’s web browser. The idea of HTML user responses is to inform the end-users why hey got banned.
The administrator can customize the HTML user responses for the following cases:
- Connection blacklisted
- Connection refused by access rule
- Connection terminated by inspection rule
- URL not allowed
- Virus found
For each case the administrator can decide whether to:
- Close silently the TCP connection
- Redirect the user to specified URL
- Show customized HTML response
You can for example notify your end-users that their web browser is outdated. You can of course make things as smooth as possible for the end-user and include the link to update the browser in the customized HTML user response.
written by Tero Jantunen - 1,449 views
\\ tags: 5.0, Features, IPS, SMC, stonegate
Mar 13
StoneGate IPS 5.0 allows you to protect your hosts and servers against attacks that are hidden inside HTTPS. Here are a couple of use cases what you may want to try with the StoneGate 5.0:
Client side protection:
- Detect and block attacks targeting the client Web browsers inside SSL tunnel.
- Protecting workstations and internal networks from malicious web servers.
Server side protection:
- Detect and block attacks targeting the HTTPS server inside SSL tunnel
- Protecting the server being compromised by the unauthorized uses
The HTTPS Inspection feature also provides support for usage of Certificate Revocation List (CRL). That list is updated via SMC.
You can also whitelist the Web sites you don’t want to inspect. There is a new HTTPS inspection policy element where you are supposed to add your users’ bank services etc.
written by Tero Jantunen - 3,477 views
\\ tags: 5.0, Features, IPS, SMC, stonegate
Mar 11
Does your log browser become sometimes full of antispoofing and discard messages so that you don’t find any relevant information from the logs anymore. StoneGate Firewall/VPN 5.0 introduces a new feature that allows you to compress the antispoofing and discard messages per engine or per physical interface. You can find these settings from the Firewall engine properties dialog.
written by Tero Jantunen - 1,381 views
\\ tags: 5.0, Features, stonegate, stonegate firewall
Mar 09
Have you experienced SYN flood denial-of-service attacks in your environment?
Image source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYN_flood
StoneGate Firewall/VPN 5.0 introduces a new feature that helps you to protect against the SYN flood attacks. With StoneGate 5.0 you can limit the amount of SYN packets as well as the maximum burst size.
This restriction can be made for the whole engine or just for some physical interface of the engine. The engine can figure out the optimal values automatically or you can set custom values for the SYN flood restriction.
written by Tero Jantunen - 6,437 views
\\ tags: 5.0, Features, SMC, stonegate, stonegate firewall
Mar 06
Do you want to customize the PDF templates before showing the reports to your Management people or your customers? StoneGate 5.0 introduces a new dialog for configuring the PDF style templates.
You can select and create new style templates directly from “Print to PDF…” dialogs. When you configure the template, you just need to import your company’s PDF template and specify what pages of that document are shown always in the beginning of PDF printouts (e.g. cover page & instructions), what is the base page for those pages that contain the actual data and what pages are shown in the end of the printout (e.g. disclaimers).
It has been possible to configure the PDF templates manually in earlier SMC versions. If you have done that, just import the PDF you were using and specify the settings mentioned above.
written by Tero Jantunen - 1,133 views
\\ tags: 5.0, Features, SMC, stonegate
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