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SYGATE®
TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES SYGATE PERSONAL FIREWALL 4.0,
COMBINING
THE BEST OF FIREWALL SECURITY AND INTRUSION DEFENSE
ZDNET and CNET to Host Free Exclusive
Downloads for Personal Use
Fremont,
California – March 27, 2001 – Sygate Technologies, a leading
provider of Internet security software solutions, today announced
the release of Sygate® Personal Firewall
4.0 the first personal firewall software that combines firewall
and intrusion defense technologies to deliver comprehensive
security and ease of use for home and small businesses.
Raising
the Bar on PC Security
As a
firewall, Sygate Personal Firewall 4.0 controls access to
communication ports and monitors any port-scanning activity.
As an intrusion defense agent, it only allows trusted communication
and considers any other network activity ‘guilty until proven
innocent.’ As a result, Sygate Personal Firewall 4.0 secures
computer systems, without the obtrusive and irrelevant alerting
characteristics of other security solutions. When attacks
do occur, Sygate Personal Firewall 4.0 offers forensic capabilities
allowing users to find the source of intrusion and take appropriate
action.
Sygate
Personal Firewall 4.0 also includes Sygate®
Online Services (SOS), a vulnerability assessment tool. SOS
allows users to proactively secure their systems by finding
and closing security holes before would-be attackers can use
them.
“With
the growth of broadband Internet access to homes, the need
to protect personal computers from malicious hackers while
preventing unauthorized access from personal computers to
networks is paramount,” said John De Santis, President and
CEO of Sygate. “By integrating application and host-based
profiling with our guilty-until-proven-innocent approach,
Sygate Personal Firewall 4.0 effectively deals with known
and unknown threats to computer security. It is an easy-to-use,
must-have security measure for any PC that connects to a private
network or the public Internet.”
Next
Generation Approach to PC Security
By allowing
only trusted network traffic and applications, Sygate Personal
Firewall not only detects, identifies and blocks known Trojans
and Denial of Service attacks, but recognizes new or unknown
attacks. Since Sygate Personal Firewall’s ‘guilty until proven
innocent’ approach doesn’t rely on signature-based scanning,
it doesn’t bog down system performance by wading through 60,000
known attacks to provide every communication attempt the benefit-of-the-doubt.
If and when an intrusion attempt occurs, Sygate Personal Firewall
detects and blocks it in real-time, while immediately notifying
the user. Advanced logging and reporting provide users with
the visibility they need to stay one step ahead of the bad
guys.
Easy
to Install and Use
Sygate
Personal Firewall easily installs on personal computer systems
by automatically detecting the user’s Internet connections
and settings. Built-in DHCP support lets Sygate Personal Firewall
slide seamlessly into existing network configurations. An
auto-update check at start-up ensures security is state-of-the
art with the latest version in place every time a computer
is in use.
Download
Sygate Personal Firewall
Beginning
today at 3:00 pm ET, Sygate Personal Firewall 4.0 for personal
use will be available for 48 hours as a free download exclusively
on the CNET Networks, Inc.’s ZDNet LaunchPad
and CNET
Download.com Web sites. CNET Download.com, the leading
channel for electronic software distribution on the Internet,
and ZDNet LaunchPad, the authoritative source of free editorially
reviewed, rated, and tested software downloads, together create
the largest online software distribution vehicle for Sygate
Personal Firewall 4.0. For business use, Sygate Personal Firewall
4.0 is available for $39.95 at http://www.sygate.com.
About
Sygate Technologies
Sygate
Technologies, Inc.™, founded in 1995, has a proven reputation
for creating innovative networking and security technologies.
Protecting more than two million networks worldwide, Sygate
Technologies secures Internet devices, mobile computers and
corporate desktops from intrusion and misuse. Sygate
solutions enforce consistent security policy, to defend information
and computing assets against intruders for individuals and
organizations.
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For More
Information, Contact:
Babak Salimi, Director, Product Marketing
Sygate Technologies, Inc.
510-742-2619
babak.salimi@sygate.com
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