Released on: 31, December 1969
, Author: Comodo Group Industry: Software Press Release Summary: Latest BETA version of acclaimed Trustix
, Audience: Software related
ey City, NJ, November 7, 2007 - Comodo, a leading securitycompany, announced today the release of Trustix Enterprise Firewall version 4.8,(TEF) a free enterprise class LINUX-based firewall solution. Trustix EnterpriseFirewall delivers a high performance firewall to monitor network traffic and protectthe network against unauthenticated traffic or login attempts that may injectTrojans, worms, or infected files into the network. TEF, widely acclaimed for itsinnovative WYSIWYG interface in combination with its sophisticated securityfeatures, remains free for use without requiring any licensing, subscription, orrenewal fees.Firewalls are designed to allow or block network traffic based on a number ofcriteria, usually related to where the traffic is coming from and what ports orservices are being used. Comodo's offering provides core firewall functionality butalso contains several additional security and usability features to safeguard acompany's network including: * Monitoring traffic volume and the type of traffic * Advising administrator about malicious activity and how many attempts therewere to break into the network * A fully-featured packet-filtering router with advanced capabilities * A unique, intuitive GUI enabling administrators to visualize and edit firewallpolicy plus manage traffic for all security zones (up to 24) as well as portforwarding, Network Address Translation (NAT) and Virtual Private Network (VPN)configurations * Packet-filtering enabling TEF to act as a router to accelerate data transmission * Command-line scanner * Fast, multi-threaded daemon with support for on-access scanning * Milter interface for sendmail * Virus database auto updater, virus scanner C library and on-access scanning * Built-in support for various archive formats such as - Zip, RAR, Tar, Gzip,Bzip2, OLE2, Cabinet, CHM, BinHex, SIS and others, almost all mail file formats,ELF executables and popular document formats including MS Office and MacOfficefiles, HTML, RTF and PD * Executable files compressed with UPX, FSG, Petite, NsPack, wwpack32, MEW,Upack and obfuscated with SUE, Y0da Cryptor and othersAdditionally, this new release adds important new technology to improve theefficiency of TEF. Some of these new features and functions include: * High Availability & Load balancer: TEF makes use of LVS (Linux Virtual Server) to provide fast load balancing.The Heartbeat (Linux-HA) is used to monitor the Linux-directors - the hostsrunning LVS and doing the load balancing. This is combined with ldirectordwhich monitors real- server - the hosts that accept end-user's connections.These three core components support TEF4.8 to provide Highly Available and/orLoad Balanced network services. * Web Content Filtering which helps prevent indiscriminate Internet surfing thatoften conceals viruses, worms, Trojans, spyware, keyloggers, phishing, pharmingand more. TEF offers intelligent surfing protection through its user identity-basedInternet Content Filtering solution, guarding enterprises from security,productivity threats and legal liability. The web content filtering solutionoffered is based on a combination of categories, keywords, URLs, domain namesand file types, making it a comprehensive filtering mechanism. * Antivirus: TEF fully integrated gateway anti-virus engine provide reliable web and e-mailsecurity at the gateway for enterprises. The gateway anti-virus solutionsupports business flexibility and prevents Internet threats like worms,viruses and malicious programs from entering the networks. * Intrusion Detection system (IDS), capable of performing real-time trafficanalysis and packet logging on IP networks. It can perform protocol analysis, content searching/matching and can be usedto detect a variety of attacks and probes, such as buffer overflows, stealthport scans, CGI attacks, SMB probes, OS fingerprinting attempts, and muchmore. It uses a flexible rules language to describe traffic that it shouldcollect or pass, as well as a detection engine that utilizes a modular pluginarchitecture.These advanced security features are configured and managed using a friendly 'drag'n' drop' GUI. This allows administrators to easily visualize and configure firewallpolicies, demilitarized zones and Virtual Private Networks by simply clicking anddragging connections between servers. The underlying rules generated by the programare then fully optimized before being deployed. This innovative approach reducesadministrator mistakes and makes deployment even easier. Melih Abdulhayoglu, CEO andChief Security Architect of Comodo explains, "Most other enterprise firewall do notenable users to configure their security requirements with such 'point and click'simplicity. By providing users with such a rich featured firewall solution free ofcharge, we are enabling network administrators to create a highly trusted networkingenvironment which in turn we hope will promote Comodo as a worldwide leader insecurity technology."For more information, please visit: www.firewall.trustix.comAbout ComodoThe Comodo companies provide the infrastructure that is essential in enablinge-merchants, other Internet-connected companies, software companies, and individualconsumers to interact and conduct business via the Internet safely and securely. TheComodo companies offer PKI SSL, Code Signing, Content Verification and E-MailCertificates; award winning PC security software; vulnerability scanning servicesfor PCI Compliance; secure e-mail and fax services.Continual innovation, a core competence in PKI, and a commitment to reversing thegrowth of Internet-crime distinguish the Comodo companies as vital players in theInternet's ongoing development. Comodo secures and authenticates online transactionsand communications for over 200,000 business customers and 3,000,000 users of ourdesktop security products.For additional information on Comodo - Creating Trust Online visithttp://www.comodo.com. For more information, reporters and analysts may contact:Judy ShapiroComodo+1 (201) 963-9471Email: judy.shapiro@comodo.com
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