SonicWALL SSL VPN Series Named 2010 Editors' Best Award Winner by Windows IT Pro Magazine

SonicWALL, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent network security and data protection solutions, today announced that its SonicWALL SSL VPN Series was named a gold medal winner of the "2010 Editor's Best Awards" in the Best Hardware (Appliance) category by Penton Media's Windows IT Pro® magazine. A Secure Remote Access (SRA) solution, SonicWALL's SSL VPN provides a single, centrally managed gateway that helps increase the productivity of the mobile workforce by granting them access to secure content on the go. Last week, SonicWALL announced the availability of the SSL VPN 5.0 for its Secure Remote Access (SRA) 1200 and 4200 SSL VPN appliances. The new firmware release from SonicWALL introduced High Availability and Layer-7 Load Balancing, providing customers remote access availability while allowing for flexible, fast growth.

"Today's mobile workforce needs secure access to more resources from more remote devices and platforms than ever before," said Patrick Sweeney, vice president of product management and corporate marketing at SonicWALL. "Our SSL VPN appliances deliver unprecedented access to mission-critical applications. We are pleased with the great momentum of this market over the last twelve months. This award is testament to both the impact of the technology in the industry and our commitment to best-in-class engineering and products."

BT Ethical Hacking Center Validates Significant Security Advances of Federated Networks' ASL Protocol

Federated Networks announced the BT Ethical Hacking Center recently confirmed that Federated Networks’ ASL protocol eliminates pervasive vulnerabilities inherent in the known limitations and weaknesses of current SSL implementations. In independent testing, Federated Networks’ new ASL protocol thwarted serious network-centric security attacks such as phishing, pharming, DNS Poisoning, and proxying, or more generally all forms of man-in-the-middle (M-I-M) attacks.

“We are very pleased to have an ethical hacking firm of the caliber and pedigree of BT to validate the threat mitigation properties of the products, solutions and security technologies that are part of the FN Connect Secure Architecture,” said David Lowenstein, chief executive officer of Federated Networks. “The bottom line is that security products should secure while also being secure, and these validations are an important first step in corroborating the efficacy of our solutions.”The testing is the first in a series of ethical hacking vulnerability assessments to be performed by BT to evaluate Federated Networks’FN Connect Secure Architecture, which comprehensively secures consumers, enterprises and governments wishing to protect their private and confidential data from networked software’s most pervasive threat vectors.

Sophos Named Winner in Security Category of CRN Tech Innovator Awards

Sophos Endpoint Security and Data Protection – its comprehensive malware and data protection endpoint solution – has been named the Security Category winner of the CRN Tech Innovator Awards. The award – honoring Sophos for both technology innovation and commitment to its channel Partner Program – was presented to Matt Fogelgren, Sophos’s director of North American channel sales at the Xchange Tech Innovators Conference on November 12, 2010 in Las Vegas.

“Innovation is the cornerstone of all we do and the engine that drives the IT market. The technologies we rely on and consider commonplace today, started on the backs of engineers and scientists in a R&D lab years ago,” said Vice President, Editorial Director for Everything Channel Kelley Damore. “We applaud this year’s winners for the hard work, vision and commitment to providing innovative solutions to our industry and solution providers.”Sophos continues to develop feature-rich threat and data protection solutions that are easy to deploy and manage. In June 2010, the company incorporated Sophos Live Protection technologies into its flagship Sophos Endpoint Security and Data Protection offering. This new cloud-based architecture arms customers with the industry’s most extensive combination of real-time threat protection and real-time feedback to security and application policy settings. Sophos Live Protection simplifies the rollout of proactive protection for employees inside and outside the office, providing them the protection needed against today’s fast-moving threats such as hijacked websites and targeted malware attacks – without adding additional IT security management overhead.

SonicWALL Secure Remote Access Solutions Awarded FIPS Certification

SonicWALL announced its Aventail E-Class Secure Remote Access (SRA) solutions, the SRA EX6000 and the SRA EX7000, have earnedFIPS 140-2 certification from NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology and CSE (Communications Security Establishment). To receive this certification, SonicWALL successfully underwent the rigorous FIPS certification process for both its software and hardware. Unlike competing products that require an additional hardware module or custom software builds to be FIPS compliant, the E-Class SRA appliance hardware and software have been designed to meet current security needs of enterprises and government agencies without the need for additional hardware modules or custom software builds. The SRA EX6000 and the SRA EX7000 now join a large number of SonicWALL products in receiving FIPS140-2 Level 2 certification.

"By achieving FIPS 140-2 Level 2 certification, the E-Class SRA line now joins the Network Security Appliance and TZ Series product lines in meeting the cryptography standard used by governments and industries worldwide," said Matthew Dieckman, product line manager at SonicWALL. "SonicWALL is dedicated to meeting demanding government security standards today and tomorrow. We offer our customers hardened security products that are well suited for the industry."

Tenable Network Security Advances to Evaluation Phase of NIAP Common Criteria Certification Phase

Tenable Network Security has advanced to the evaluation phase of Common Criteria certification, a security evaluation required by government procurement departments worldwide. Common Criteria certification is an international standards program managed in the U.S. by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Security Agency (NSA) and is designed to help government organizations select secure commercial IT products. It is also considered valuable by potential customers in the private sector.

The NIAP CCEVS maintains a “Validated Products List” and a separate list of products that are “In Evaluation”. Tenable currently holds Common Criteria certification for the SecurityCenter 3 management suite. Products “in evaluation” are those security-enhanced products that are in the process of being evaluated by a NIAP CCEVS Common Criteria Testing Laboratory (CCTL) under CCEVS validation procedures and can be found on the NIAP CCEVS web site.Tenable is working toward Common Criteria's Evaluation Assurance Level 2+ (EAL 2+) for its latest major release, SecurityCenter 4. This level of certification assures customers, in and out of government, that Tenable’s solutions have gone through a rigorous testing and analysis process and conform to IT security standards sanctioned by the International Standards Organization.