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Rubrik: World-wide News/Products & News Cyberguard:
Firewall/VPN Appliances Will Incorporate Linux-Based Operating Environment "TSP" firewalls Offer the Most Granular Inspection Available With (02.09.04)
- CyberGuard announced the details of its next generation of information
security products - the "TSP" family of firewall/VPN appliances.
Built on a new Linux-based secure operating environment (OE), the TSP family
consists of the 1000, 3000, and 5000 series. The new appliance line
represents the company's first "Total Stream Protection" (TSP)
product. TSP appliances enable user and application-specific security
policies so organizations can customize their information security rules and
practices to the level of an individual user as well as by the various
applications used throughout an enterprise and the specific needs of an
organization.
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"This
is a major step forward in our strategy of becoming the leading worldwide information
security provider," stated Pat Clawson, chairman and chief executive
officer of CyberGuard Corporation. "Not only are we continuing to offer
a secure operating environment, but operating on Linux opens the door to a
wider customer base. As we move forward, Global Command Center(tm), our next
generation central management solution, will serve as the control interface
for all of our TSP components." The TSP
line continues CyberGuard's tradition of offering solutions that are
invulnerable to attacks against the firewall OE. Mandatory access control
(MAC) and multi-level security (MLS) technologies completely insulate the OE
layers used to inspect and transport packets from those that allow the
firewall to be configured and managed. Immediately
available as a secure operating environment upgrade for CyberGuard's existing
Classic family of firewall appliances, TSP enhances CyberGuard's FS, KS, and
SL appliances with broader application layer protection capabilities. Many of
today's most damaging viruses, worms and vulnerabilities are introduced at
the application level. That is where user data resides and it is a favorite
target of the black hat community because the complexity of the various
protocols in use makes it very difficult to protect. An exposed vulnerability
at the application layer leaves an entire enterprise open to attack.
London-based security firm mi2g estimates the economic impact of recent
infections from application layer attacks including Sobig, MyDoom, Klez and
Mimail to be more than 132 billion Dollar. TSP
extends CyberGuard's application layer security protection with a new
innovative algorithm called "contextual aggregation" that is used
to assemble packets into session-aware contexts. Contextualizing the
communications stream enables TSP series appliances to identify and control
the use of restricted commands and unauthorized use of applications and
content. Once the entire message has been assembled, TSP inspects the data
stream at all seven layers of the Open System Interconnection (OSI)
networking model. CyberGuard's new TSP firewalls offer the most granular
inspection available with 79 inspection points at the application layer and
30 inspection points at the packet-filtering layers. "IT
security officers are clamoring for application-aware solutions to mitigate
the sophisticated nature of application-oriented attacks," explains
Jason Wright, industry analyst and program leader for security technologies
at Frost & Sullivan, an industry research firm. "CyberGuard's new
version TSP series is a significant step in that direction. It blends
positive security model 'known good' application behavior with 'known bad'
signatures and 'acceptable use' policies to provide granular
application-layer protection." TSP series policies are highly customizable using a scheme best described as 'per everything.' Administrators can grant security access and privileges based on criteria such as user identity, user group, application, origination and destination. TSP Series appliances offer a number of new management features including robust alert options, advanced query functions for auditing reports and a Web-based user interface for remote management using reusable objects and a wizard-like configuration. (ma) CyberGuard Beethovenstraße 8-10, 60325 Frankfurt am Main Kontakt: Matthew Walker Tel. (069) 97554325, Fax (069) 97554100 E-Mail: mwalker@cyberguard.com Media
Contact: Caren Leigh (CyberGuard Europe Ltd) Tel.
(0044-1344) 382550 E-Mail: cleigh@cyberguard.co.uk Web: www.cyberguard.com |
