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Screen capture videos of StoneGate Management Center are featured in the "Huomenta Suomi" TV program from this morning. Click the picture below to view the recording of the program at MTV3′s Katsomo (unfortunately it is only in Finnish).

Those ones who do not understand Finnish, you can check the SMC video clips also here:

• Log Data Mining á la Stonesoft
• Real-Time Monitoring with StoneGate Overviews

Enjoy!

written by Tero Jantunen - 1,965 views \\ tags: demo, Geolocations, logs, military, MTV3, Overviews, Videos

It’s often said that those “who can’t do, teach.” Or a similar metaphor says that the “cobbler’s kids have poor shoes.” In other words, even in network security, those who attempt to teach and preach network security often aren’t good at their own. Stonesoft has a key component to its StoneGate platform, which enables simple implementation of security for both physical and virtual systems. But where does our virtualization experience come from, and do we practice it ourselves?

There’s no better example to demonstrate our experience with virtualization and virtual security than by employing our StoneGate virtual firewall/VPN, intrusion detection and prevention systems and SSL VPN in VMware’s vSphere 4. Our Americas headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States hosts demo.stonegate.com, a premier system architected and engineered to allow prospects, customers and partners to experience the full capabilities of StoneGate through virtualization technology. It also allows us to develop, test, and hone our skills in virtualization and virtual security. The architecture uses our virtual appliances, and virtual servers to simulate a full set of Internet traffic, multi-link VPNs, server load balancing, clustering, StoneGate Management Center high availability, IPS sensor in-line clustering, IPS analyzer redundancy, end-user domains, role-based administration and more.

Recently, we upgraded the systems to VMware’s vSphere 4, and so I couldn’t help but take a few pictures of the actual hardware to put a physical appearance to the virtual world that demo.stonegate.com represents. Below you can see the equipment that drives the system, including two vSphere servers, an iSCSI storage system, and some physical appliances bridged into the virtual world. The system also has some other physical hardware integrated to demonstrate the new third-party monitoring. If you’re interested in learning more about our virtual appliances and how they can secure your data, please visit us at www.stonesoft.com. If you’re interested in a demonstration of demo.stonegate.com and the StoneGate platform, contact your sales team. Although the system is currently running the release code of 5.0, in the future we will again set up beta.stonegate.com to try out upcoming releases as well.

So yes, we do practice what we preach. In the end, virtualization can help organizations realize many benefits, including cost savings, simplification, and more. Stonesoft can help ensure that those benefits can be realized in a secure fashion. That’s just another way that Stonesoft means Network Security. Simplified.

written by markb - 1,241 views \\ tags: demo, management

Hi all!

As we wrote earlier, last week we offered selected Finnish journalists a rare chance to peek into the mind of an IT criminal. The event, called “Hack the lab” was a total success. After some initial hesitation, a wave of enthusiasm and joy of discovery spreaded among participants. The journalists had the chance to try out different techniques, such as port scanning, password breaking and the use of intrusion tools. We let them do all the work, and just provided some advice and guidance in the background.

Based on the feedback, we realised that the editors were really surprised by how easy it is to break into a system. None of them could have imagined, how easy it could be to find powerful tools from the Internet and how easy it is to use them. Sure, we should keep in mind that someone has gone through great trouble making the tools first. Nevertheless, the point remains. The journalists also understood how important it is to have an up-to-date and modern intrusion prevention system in place.  When we protected the target systems with  our SGIPS, the hacks turned out to be unsuccessful. Without the IPS,  the target systems were completely owned.

The event generated some coverage as well, please see the links below. (Articles in Finnish)

YLE: Hakkerointi onnistuu kaikilta
mesiksen mietteet: Hakkerilabra opettaa pomoille tietoturvamokia
Tietokone: Hakkerilabra opettaa pahimmat tietoturvamokat
Helsingin Sanomat: Mustahuppuinen hakkeri ja salaiset reseptit (for subscribers only)

written by Olli-Pekka Niemi - 2,277 views \\ tags: demo, IPS, Security

Do you want to try StoneGate in your virtual environment? SVDK is for you!

SVDK stands for StoneGate Virtual Demo Kit and it is a free kit allowing you to setup a simple yet powerful virtual playground, thanks to a set of ready made virtual machines for VMware platforms (ESX/ESXi, VMware Server, Workstation, etc).

The playground network schema is reported below:

It is available now in StoneBlog Community.

Happy testing!

written by RoarinPenguin - 1,186 views \\ tags: demo, stonegate, svdk, virtual playground

Planning on attending the upcoming RSA Conference in a couple of weeks? Interested in learning more about the upcoming release of StoneGate 5.0 and seeing it in action? Have questions about Stonesoft’s virtual security solutions? Then be sure to stop by Stonesoft’s booth (2108) at the RSA Conference expo in San Francisco April 20th-24th and talk to the Stonesoft team. Technical experts will be on-hand to discuss and demonstrate the new features of 5.0 as well as talk about Stonesoft’s solutions as a whole.

Feedback from customers and prospects is one of the most important pieces of data within Stonesoft. We love to hear from the field the particular challenges that you are facing in today’s information technology and network security landscape, so that we can continue to work on innovative ways to help you address those challenges.

Network security. Simplified.

written by markb - 925 views \\ tags: conferences, demo, events