StoneGate to protect Microsoft vulnerability

ATLANTA, USA: Stonesoft, provider of integrated network security and resilient connectivity solutions, has announced its StoneGate Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) provides pre-emptive protection against the latest vulnerability announced by Microsoft yesterday.

On Oct. 23, Microsoft provided an emergency fix for a critical vulnerability in its system. The Stonesoft Vulnerability Analysis Team discovered that Stonesoft already offers pre-emptive protection for the vulnerability in question.

Thus, all Stonesoft customers that use the StoneGate IPS to protect their Windows networks are protected against this vulnerability.

“StoneGate customers already have full protection against this most recent vulnerability. This proves that StoneGate signatures cover more than just one attack - they provide protection against many variations of the attack that uses the same or similar vulnerabilities. So, it is not the number of signatures that make the difference, but instead the quality and coverage of the fingerprint that matters,” said Klaus Majewski, Vice President of Marketing at Stonesoft.

Microsoft released an out-of-band security advisory regarding a critical security flaw that compromises the remote system level in the server service that affects all supported versions of Windows. The StoneGate IPS has a pre-emptive signature that terminates attacks exploiting this vulnerability.

“This fingerprint situation has been included in the Stonesoft default policy since Aug. 11, 2006. Our customers do not have to do anything. They have full protection against this vulnerability,” says Olli-Pekka Niemi, Vulnerability Expert and team leader of the Vulnerability Analysis team at Stonesoft.