May 04

StoneGate 5.3 – Type ahead search within policy cell

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Let’s start the feature preview series with a small but really nice usability enhancement that lifts up the user experience of daily policy management to a new level. We have now extended the type ahead search to policy cells.

To add new elements into the policy cell you can just start typing the element name, IP, comment, port or basically any related information in the policy cell. The system will instantly search elements from all element types that can be added to the selected cell.

A small popup will appear, where you can select the elements to be added to the current policy cell. So now you can do most of the modifications directly with your keyboard without even touching the mouse.

Type ahead search in action

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May 03

StoneGate 5.3 feature previews

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StoneGate 5.3 will be released within a couple of months. It contains a lot of interesting features. We thought we could reveal some information about them here in StoneBlog before you can try the new features in action.

The theme for this release has been “Authentication and user and application awareness”. But as usual, there are a lot of other features and enhancements related to other topics as well.

StoneGate 5.3

Stay tuned and see what you can expect from the near future. The first feature previews will be published within a couple of days and we will keep on publishing them until the release is out.

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Feb 03
StoneGate IPsec VPN Client 5.1 contains two important enhancements:

  • VPN Client can automatically contact the defined backup gateway in case the connection to primary gateway fails
  • VPN Client can inteligently recover from connectivity problems by trying IKE negotiations automatically with different connection settings
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Jan 27

SSL VPN 1.4 Feature Previews

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StoneGate SSL VPN version 1.4 is the next major version of this product line and it’s just few days away… while waiting for the downloadable upgrade, let’s review the main news.

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Jan 25

StoneGate 5.1: Other enhancements

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Here are some other smaller enhancements that will be available in StoneGate 5.1.

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Jan 22

StoneGate 5.1: Automatic CA renewal

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This feature is not very visible but it will save you from a lot of administration work at some point in the future!

As you probably know Management Server installation includes internal Certificate Authorities (CAs) for certificate used in communications between StoneGate system components and for certificates used in VPN communications. The validity of this CA expires after 10 years (after the original configuration). That means the first StoneGate customers will face this issue soon.

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Jan 20

StoneGate 5.1: 3rd Party monitoring enhancements

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StoneGate Management Center 5.1 contains plenty of new enhancements related to Third Party event management feature that was originally introduced in StoneGate 5.0.

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Jan 18
64-bit operating systems can now be used as a platform for the StoneGate Management Center. It is possible to install and use all SMC components (Management Server, Log Server, Web Portal Server, Management Client and Web Portal) on 64-bit operating systems. 64-bit-smc

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Jan 15

StoneGate 5.1: 3G interfaces for FW

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StoneGate Firewall 5.1 introduces a new backup interface type. You can namely configure 3G modem interfaces for single node firewall elements. Once the new interface is configured in SMC, you can just plug in a 3G modem to appliance’s USB port and refresh the policy from SMC.

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Jan 14

StoneGate 5.1: Web filtering

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Web Filtering

With StoneGate’s Web filtering feature you can configure which type of resources in the Internet the users can access by using web browsers. StoneGate contains about 80 URL categories that you can use to inspect the traffic. URL categories are dynamically updated from external cloud service provided by a company called BrightCloud.

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