Stonesoft Helps Managed Service Providers Offer New Services to Their Customers

Stonesoft, an innovative provider of integrated network security and resilient connectivity solutions, today introduced the new StoneGate 4.2 Secure Connectivity Solution comprised of StoneGate Firewall/VPN, IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) and IPSec VPN Client, all centrally managed with the StoneGate Management Center (SMC). The solution allows managed service providers (MSPs) to offer their customers services where they can directly see how their security policy is enforced, while at the same time offering visibility into the customer’s own network.

Particularly small to mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) are struggling with the challenge of handling network security and IT infrastructure with in-house staff. The StoneGate 4.2 solution family allows MSPs to provide SME organizations with reliable and secure, yet transparent network security services.

“Stonesoft is proud to provide a solution that ideally serves the needs of MSPs and their customers. MSPs appreciate the advanced centralized management offered by StoneGate Management Center 4.2, as well as the possibility to offer new, advanced services to their customers,” said Klaus Majewski, Product Marketing Manager at Stonesoft.

“Few SMEs have the budget or competence required to maintain their network security on the level it should be,” highlights Klaus Majewski. “Instead, they rely on the competence of MSPs to guarantee the security, scalability and high availability of their IT solutions. StoneGate not only provides excellent reporting services, but it allows MSPs to offer customers visibility into their own alerts, logs and security policies making customer change requests easier to handle and virtually error-free, which saves time and money on both sides.”

StoneGate solutions help MSPs provide security services like firewall, site-to-site highly available VPN connectivity and Intrusion Prevention services using one centralized management. This provides significantly reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) and a faster return on investment (ROI) for both MSPs and their customers.

While the trend to outsource network security is growing, organizations still appreciate the possibility to see what is happening in their network. With StoneGate Management Center 4.2, including unique support for serial IPS clustering for additional throughput, MSPs can provide their customers visibility into the network. MSPs can provide additional pre-emptive services like informing customers when there is a laptop or server in the network that has a network card that is going to break down soon. This enables MSPs to move from reactive mode to a more proactive customer service mode.

Key features and enhancements

The key features of the new StoneGate 4.2 product family include:

Restricted configuration and log view — allows MSPs to offer new services;

Inline serial clustering — scales IPS throughput in an MSPs or enterprise environment;

Remote office firewall support — centrally managed small WLAN firewall for remote offices;

Instant reports from log view and vice versa — easy to find trends and drill down to the cause of it;

New Multi-Link functionalities — cost-effective Internet and VPN high availability; and

Management Center high availability — disaster recovery site service.

Learn more about StoneGate 4.2 solution for MSPs at http://www.stonesoft.com/en/products_and_solutions/solutions/ industry_solutions/MSP/. (Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser’s address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.)

About Stonesoft Corporation

Stonesoft Corporation (OMX: SFT1V) is an innovative provider of integrated network security solutions to secure the information flow of distributed organizations. Stonesoft customers include enterprises with growing business needs requiring advanced network security and always-on business connectivity.

StoneGate™ Secure Connectivity Solution unifies firewall, VPN, IPS and SSL VPN blending network security, end-to-end availability and award-winning load balancing into a centrally managed system. The key benefits of StoneGate Secure Connectivity Solution include low TCO, excellent price-performance ratio and high ROI.

StoneGate Management Center provides unified management for StoneGate Firewall with VPN, IPS and SSL VPN. StoneGate Firewall and IPS work together to provide intelligent defense throughout the enterprise network while StoneGate SSL VPN provides enhanced security for mobile and remote use.

Founded in 1990, Stonesoft Corporation is a global company with corporate headquarters in Helsinki, Finland and Americas headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. For more information, visit www.stonesoft.com.