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Have a shiny new iPad/iPhone/iOS device and wonder how to access all your precious corporate data? Are you a sysadmin who needs to manage the corporate LAN from everywhere? Do you need some intranet-only web pages you don’t want to publish for security reasons?

This simple tutorial will explain how to create a VPN between your StoneGate and your iDevices.

Thanks to Marco Rottigni who gave me precious hints to make all things work!

This is my very first post to the Stoneblog, if you want feel free to give me feedbacks and suggestions! Roberto

written by roberto.toniolo - 2,168 views \\ tags: firewall, iOS, iPad, Tips & Tricks, VPN

SMC 5.3.1 is now publicly available and FW/VPN 5.3.0 is also published as controlled shipment. I wanted to conclude the StoneGate 5.3 feature previews by listing the other significant enhancements that are introduced in version 5.3. More details can be found from SMC and FW Release Notes and product manuals.

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written by Tero Jantunen - 1,146 views \\ tags: 5.3, ADSL, Certificates, Dynamic routing, Feature Previews, firewall, SMC, SNMP agent, VPN, WiFi

StoneGate Firewall 5.3 contains a new integrated Anti-Spam feature that complements the StoneGate UTM feature portfolio. The Anti-Spam feature has been developed in-house and contains a lot of different algorithms and tools for spam detection. It suits well for example small MSSP customers that have a single firewall and own email domain.

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written by Tero Jantunen - 841 views \\ tags: 5.3, Anti-Spam, DNSBL, Feature Previews, firewall, SMC, UTM

To make the mass deployment scenarios even more convenient from the administrator point of view, StoneGate 5.3 introduces a new “Create Multiple Single Firewalls” wizard. With that wizard the administrator can create hundreds of Single Firewall and Internal Gateway elements. In the end of the wizard, you can optionally upload the initial configurations to be available for Plug & Play installation.

The end result is that the administrator can set up hundreds of Firewalls ready to be deployed in a few minutes. And the appliances can actually be delivered directly to the remote office – the administrators don’t even need to open the appliance boxes before they are deployed.

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written by Tero Jantunen - 688 views \\ tags: 5.3, Feature Previews, firewall, Plug and play, SMC, Wizard

Now as we celebrate the World IPv6 day today, it is a good time to announce that StoneGate Firewall 5.3 and StoneGate Management Center 5.3 will extend the IPv6 support to cover: IPv6 FW clustering IPv6 NAT rules IPv6 VPN IPv6 FTP Protocol Agent Stonesoft is among the first security vendors to participate in the World IPv6 day’s “test flight” in which the participants offer their services over IPv6 for a 24-hour time period. Stonesoft’s corporate website and blog will actually remain to be available over both IPv4 and IPv6 also after the test flight.

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written by Tero Jantunen - 1,948 views \\ tags: 5.3, Feature Previews, firewall, IPv6, SMC, World IPv6 day

This other brand new session monitoring view lists all VPN Security Associations that have been currently negotiated in the firewall. The view lets the administrator e.g. to filter VPN SAs, create statistics, aggregate the table by any field and save VPN SA monitoring snapshots for further analysis.

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written by Tero Jantunen - 826 views \\ tags: 5.3, Feature Previews, firewall, Monitoring, SA, Security Association, SMC, VPN, VPN tunnel

There are a couple of new session monitoring views in StoneGate Management Center 5.3.0. One of them is the live monitoring view of authenticated users. It lists all the users that have authenticated themselves against the firewall by using the captive portal or IPsec VPN Client.

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written by Tero Jantunen - 1,353 views \\ tags: 5.3, authentication, Feature Previews, firewall, Monitoring, SMC, Users

StoneGate Firewall and SMC 5.3 will provide an integrated, easy-to-use web authentication for end users. This Captive HTTP/HTTPS authentication portal provides an easy way for the end users to authenticate themselves to access some service behind the firewall. The feature works well together with User & User Group based access control that is also released in StoneGate 5.3.

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written by Tero Jantunen - 1,104 views \\ tags: 5.3, authentication, Captive Portal, Feature Previews, firewall, SMC, Users, Web

StoneGate Firewall and SMC 5.3 are capable for dynamically identify the applications from the traffic. From now on the administrators can use Application elements directly in a service cell of policy access rules. Applications are also visible in the logs, statistics and reports. Now you can actually see which user is using which application from SMC if you want.

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written by Tero Jantunen - 961 views \\ tags: 5.3, Applications, Feature Previews, firewall, SMC, SSL, TLS

As you have noticed the flexibility of policy configuration has increased in StoneGate Management Center 5.3. One of the most efficient enhancements on that side, is the ability to use Zones in policies. Zone is a tag that you can assign to any physical or VLAN interface of a firewall. You can use the Zones in Source and Destination cells in Access Rules and NAT rules.

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written by Tero Jantunen - 834 views \\ tags: 5.3, access rule, Feature Previews, firewall, Interface, Interface configuration, Policy, SMC, Zone