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News

Febuary 7th, 2005

Press Release: PORTUS™ High Availability Option limits firewall system outages to seconds per year.

The High Availability Redundant PORTUS System (HARPS™) that improves the reliability of network defenses by a factor of 10,000 over standard firewalls and NIPS was announced today by Freemont Avenue Software, Inc. Fault tolerant processors are used to reduce the average unscheduled downtime for firewalls from 10 hours per year to less than two seconds per year.

Read the press release here (.pdf)

February 1, 2005

The Zero-Hour(tm) application defense built into PORTUS immediately blocked the latest set of viruses and worms including the latest Bagle mutants and .rar archive file type. Rar files are similar to zip files and may contain multiple compressed files. Many of the e-mails containing viruses embedded in rar files have been successful as they claim to contain Microsoft patches or invitations to view porn.

PORTUS is capable of blocking all 190 types of executable files the instant they arrive. No administrative actions are required to respond to the latest attacks. Nor does PORTUS depend on the downloading of virus and worm signatures to detect new forms of attack. Viruses scanners and other types of IDS/IPS systems are always a day to two behind the attackers in what has become known as the "signature update race." The PORTUS defenses are based on a more fundamental approach that provides immediate protection, hence the name "zero hour" defense.

January 27th, 2005

Analysis of High Availability Firewalls versus Firewall sandwich Configurations document released.

Firewalls are increasingly being used to protect mission critical systems that require unscheduled outages to be limited to less than six minutes per year. One solution has been to implement a “Firewall Sandwich,” which consists of redundant firewalls placed between two layers of redundant Firewall Load Balancers (FLB). The firewall sandwich uses six or more nodes configured in three layers to achieve High Availability (99.999%). This method requires a significant increase in costs and complexity. The High Availability Redundant PORTUS Systems or “HARPS” achieves High Availability using fewer systems at a fraction of the cost and complexity. A single layer of load balancing fault tolerant firewalls reduces unscheduled outages to a couple of seconds per year. HARPS provides higher availability, lower costs and easier management relative to firewall sandwiches.

Read the full document here (.pdf)

November 18th, 2004

A new product, the Software Security Token™, or SST was announced today by President Jim Livermore. Strong user authentication is more secure than static passwords as it relies on something the user knows (such as a pass-phrase) and something they possess such as the SST. SST controls access to sensitive systems or networks through the use of a challenge-response system, creating an encrypted, unique identifier each time a system or network is accessed. The SST consists of three programs: (1) the SST client that runs on a MS Windows system; (2) the SST server that controls the SST client and; (3) the SST user utility that creates the encrypted file containing the shared secret used for generating the response to the challenge.

Read the Press Release here

For more information on the Software Security Token, please contact us

August 5th, 2004

PORTUS version 5.1 released.

For more information about what is new with this release of PORTUS Version 5.1, please open this document (pdf format only): New Functions in PORTUS 5.1

March 1st, 2004

The Zero-Hour(tm) application defense built into PORTUS immediately blocked the Netsky worm at its first arrival. The unique application level defenses of PORTUS automatically blocks new attacks the instant they arrive. No administrative actions are required to respond to the latest attacks. Nor does PORTUS depend on the downloading of virus and worm signatures to detect new forms of attack. Viruses scanners and other types of IDS/IPS systems are always a day to two behind the attackers in what has become known as the "signature update race." The PORTUS defenses are based on a more fundamental approach that provides immediate protection, hence the name "zero hour" defense.

Whitepaper availiable here (.pdf version here)

January 20th, 2004

PORTUS Application Protection System for network security has again proved its worth to our customers. PORTUS is successfully defending protected networks against this week's three major e-mail attacks, W32/Bagle, W32/Novarg and MyDoom.

Read the Press Release here

April 15th, 2003

A new product, Webgate Plus, for LINUX, AIX and Solaris, designed to recognize and block attacks directed at web servers and their applications was announced today by Jim Livermore, president of Livermore Software Laboratories. Webgate Plus is a complete webserver application protection system designed to secure HTTP and SSL connections. Attacks include denial of service, modification or destruction of data or theft of personal information

October 1, 2002