SecureData, an Erp.com company and the exclusive distributors of Trend Micro,a leading provider of enterprise antivirus and content security software for the Internet age has announced that its OPSEC certified InterScan VirusWall is now supported by the new StoneBeat SecurityCluster from Stonesoft. Stonesoft is an international Finnish software company focusing on network security and information management products that enable server capacity and management to be optimised round the clock. Solutions offered by Stonesoft include the StoneBeat FullCluster for Check Point's FireWall-1.
Trend Micro's InterScan VirusWall is a high-performance, three-in-one product that provides comprehensive, real-time virus protection at the Internet gateway for SMTP email, HTTP and FTP traffic. It detects viruses and blocks malicious Java and ActiveX code and gives administrators maximum control over virus protection across the enterprise through server-based management tools.
"Content Scanning is one of the cornerstones for any network security solution. As Internet traffic increases, businesses are faced with the issue that this technology demands a high level of computing power. Implementing Trend Micro's InterScan VirusWall together with StoneBeat SecurityCluster enables organisations to scale up their anti-virus capacity very easily by just adding new nodes to a cluster," said Jari Raappana, Stonesoft's Marketing Director. "StoneBeat SecurityCluster includes the High Availability and Load Balancing technology common across all StoneBeat products."
"StoneBeat SecurityCluster together with InterScan VirusWall creates a new, unmatched level in the content security market," said Wayne Biehn, Sales Director, SecureData. "In combining these two technologies we have created a high-availability, scalable and manageable solution for companies requiring 24x7 antivirus and content security solutions for the Internet."
StoneBeat technology interconnects multiple systems to form a scalable cluster. The machines act as a single StoneBeat cluster server providing performance, scalability and flexibility for Internet services and e-commerce mission-critical 24x7 operations. The cluster has a single server identity and adding nodes does not require reconfiguration of routers like solutions based on virtual IP addresses. Scaling up the size of the StoneBeat cluster takes place online without interruption to the network operations. For maximised server performance, StoneBeat SecurityCluster supports dynamic load balancing between the nodes running the anti-virus software. The StoneBeat system will automatically balance the load in such a way that no single server node is overloaded.
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Stonesoft
Stonesoft is an international Finnish software company focusing on Network Security and Information Management products and solutions. The company's technology and expertise are enabling companies to obtain results from Corporate Networks, Internet Commerce, and Information Management. Founded in 1990, Stonesoft Corporation's annual sales growth has been over 100 % during the last 4 years. Today the company is one of the most successful Finnish software companies in the global market. Stonesoft is listed on the Helsinki Exchanges.
Stonesoft markets its own products on a global basis and is a Nordic distributor for the solutions of world market leaders. The company's business model focuses on developing software products designed to cover selected product gaps left by market leading software solutions.
As a market leader in high availability security solutions, Stonesoft offers the industry's most comprehensive software solutions for deploying reliable and secure data connections. See more: http://www.stonebeat.com
SecureData
SecureDATA, an ERP.com company, is a Managed Security Service Provider. SecureDATA is the exclusive sub-Saharan Distributors of Trend Micro, providing enterprise-wide, centrally managed, server-based, virus protection, e-mail filtering and Internet filtering products and services.
Concern about Internet Safety has created a vigorous and growing market for content security products and services. Today, e-mail attachments account for over 50% of virus infections, and web-based malicious mobile code (vandals) is widely thought to be the predominant content threat of the near future. SecureDATA, brings sub-Saharan Africa the tools that build anti-virus and content security protection into the Internet and Mail/Groupware infrastructure.