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StoneBeat
Customers Ensured Full Integration with Industry's Leading
Architecture
for Interoperable Internet Security
HELSINKI
and ATLANTA - October 10, 2000-Stonesoft Corporation
(HEX: SFT1V), a leading innovator and provider of software-based,
high availability network security and e-business solutions,
today announced that its StoneBeat FullCluster™ has
been awarded Check Point Technologies' Open Platform for Security
(OPSEC) certification. Stonesoft, one of the original members
of the more than 250 companies that are a part of OPSEC, is
a long-time solution partner to Check Point, and the OPSEC
certification guarantees that Stonesoft's StoneBeat products
integrate fully with Check Point's Secure Virtual Network
(SVN) architecture to provide customers with a broad choice
of interoperable Internet security solutions.
Stonesoft's StoneBeat FullCluster is a total clustering solution
that addresses all five issues most critical to data security
administrators: scalability, load balancing, fault tolerance,
online maintenance and transparency. StoneBeat FullCluster
interconnects multiple systems to form a scalable high-throughput
firewall cluster. Scaling up the size of the StoneBeat cluster
takes place online without interruption to network operations.
The StoneBeat FullCluster system will automatically balance
the load in such a way that no single firewall node is overloaded.
StoneBeat FullCluster also enables load balancing of VPN tunnel
connections.
"StoneBeat FullCluster is an extremely successful high
availability solution that provides dynamic load balancing
and clustering for firewalls," said Jari Raappana, director,
corporate business development, Stonesoft Corporation. "The
OPSEC certification is a result of several years of close
cooperation between Stonesoft and Check Point, and clearly
demonstrates to our customers that StoneBeat FullCluster is
fully compatible with Check Point's VPN-1/FireWall-1."
Stonesoft's StoneBeat solutions can be found wherever total
reliability is required in an enterprise network strategy.
StoneBeat customers include telecommunications companies,
financial institutions, Fortune 500 companies, multinational
companies and federal and foreign governments. StoneBeat is
used in virtually every major business, industry and public
service environment. Other products in the StoneBeat product
family include StoneBeat SecurityCluster ™, StoneBeat
WebCluster™, StoneBeat CacheCluster™ and StoneBeat
DNSCluster™.
"Load balancing and scalability have become essential
elements in VPN and firewall installations serving eBusiness
applications," said Bradley Brown, director, business
development, Check Point Software Technologies. "Check
Point's VPN-1/FireWall-1 advanced clustering capability combined
with Stonesoft's StoneBeat FullCluster high availability with
load balancing solution maximizes performance and availability
for the most demanding customer installations."
Stonesoft's StoneBeat FullCluster is the second StoneBeat
product to receive Check Point's OPSEC certification. Another
high availability solution, StoneBeat HA™, a hot standby
product for Check Point FireWall-1, received OPSEC certification
in 1998.
About Check Point's OPSEC
OPSEC (Open Platform for Security) is the industry's leading
open, multi-vendor security framework. With over 250 partners,
OPSEC guarantees customers the broadest choice of best-of-breed
integrated applications and deployment platforms that support
Check Point's Secure Virtual Network Architecture. Products
that carry the OPSEC Certified seal have been tested to guarantee
integration and interoperability. For complete OPSEC Alliance
program information including partner and product listings,
the freely available OPSEC SDK (software development kit)
and evaluation versions of OPSEC Certified products, visit
http://www.opsec.com.
About Stonesoft Corporation
Stonesoft Corporation (HEX: SFT1V) is a global Finnish software
company headquartered in Helsinki, Finland and Atlanta, Georgia.
Stonesoft is the leading innovator and provider of software-based,
high availability network security and e-business solutions
for telecommunication companies, financial institutions, high
volume Internet sites and large enterprises deploying Internet-based
applications. Stonesoft's StoneBeat product line is the worldwide
technology and market leader, being the only software product
that combines dynamic load balancing and high availability
for firewalls and other applications, such as web, cache,
content scanning and DNS servers.
Stonesoft markets its own products - StoneBeat and Optiwise
- on a global basis and is a Nordic distributor for the solutions
of world market leaders. Stonesoft has European offices in
the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden
and Norway; and in the Far East/Pacific Rim in Singapore,
Japan and Australia. Its research and development centers
are located in Helsinki, Finland; Sophia Antipolis, France;
and Florence, Italy. For more information about Stonesoft
Corporation and its products, please visit http://www.stonesoft.com
or http://www.stonebeat.com.
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