Stonesoft partners with the University of Glamorgan to carry out academic research into Advanced Evasion Techniques

4 oktober 2011 Helsinki, Finland, 4 October, 2011 - Stonesoft, the network security vendor that discovered Advanced Evasion Techniques (AETs), today announced a partnership with The University of Glamorgan to conduct academic and field research into AETs. Advanced Evasion Techniques are an evolution of traditional evasions, providing hackers with a back-door key to any vulnerable system. Using AETs, hackers can disguise malware to deliver it past security appliances completely undetected. Stonesoft and the University of Glamorgan will be working closely together in order to carry out extensive research into AETs to help better understand the severity of the threat. Stonesoft is providing the university with its anti- evasion testing tool, which allows IT security staff to test if their networks are vulnerable to AETs. The tool will allow the university's computer forensics team to conduct field research in their labs. "We are thrilled to be working with Stonesoft and carrying out research into Advanced Evasion Techniques. We believe AETs pose a serious threat to network security and have already seen evidence of hackers using them in the wild. It is also very promising to see that Stonesoft is taking the threat posed by evasions seriously as they have been overlooked by many in the past," said Andrew Blyth, head of advanced technology at The University of Glamorgan. The University of Glamorgan is recognised as a centre of excellence for information security and computer forensics. The university has an Information Security Research Group which carries out research into network security, intrusion detection and wireless security, and it is the one of the few universities in the UK which carries out network forensics for the UK government. "We are very excited about working so closely with the University of Glamorgan. They have the most advanced IT security department in the UK and we believe they are very well equipped to carry out the highly technical research this will require. The university carries out testing for the UK government and these, and the pharmaceutical and financial industries, are the types of targets that we believe are most vulnerable to AETs," says Ash Patel, country manager for UK and Ireland at Stonesoft. Stonesoft is currently the lead researcher in AETs and has discovered that they can be used successfully against almost all security solutions currently available on the market. Stonesoft's discovery was reported to the CERT-FI (Computer Emergency Response Team in Finland) in October last year. For more information about AETs, please visit www.antievasion.com or www.stonesoft.com. Contact: For more information, please contact: Klaus Majewski Director, Business Development Stonesoft Corporation Tel. +358 40 824 7908 E-mail: klaus.majewski(AT)stonesoft.com About Stonesoft Stonesoft Corporation (NASDAQ 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(TM) Secure Connectivity Solution unifies firewall, VPN, IPS and SSL VPN blending network security, end-to-end availability and award-winning load balancing into a unified and centrally managed system. The key benefits of the StoneGate solution include low TCO, excellent price-performance ratio and high ROI. The StoneGate Virtual Security Solutions protect the network and ensure business continuity in both virtual and physical network environments. 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 all over 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, www.antievasion.com and the corporate blog http://stoneblog.stonesoft.com. This announcement is distributed by Thomson Reuters on behalf of Thomson Reuters clients. The owner of this announcement warrants that: (i) the releases contained herein are protected by copyright and other applicable laws; and (ii) they are solely responsible for the content, accuracy and originality of the information contained therein. Source: Stonesoft Oyj via Thomson Reuters ONE [HUG#1551966]