InfoSecter Adds Security Device Support in New Release.Support for popular open source firewall and enhanced Cisco support CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Network Geographics is pleased to announce release 1.2 of InfoSecter, a toolset for IT and network security professionals. InfoSecter builds a functional model of traffic flow and security operations from the firewall's configuration file. With this model, InfoSecter makes it possible to find relevant firewall rules based Using "if-this, do that" rules to perform actions. Rules-based products implies flexibility in the software, enabling tasks and data to be easily changed by replacing one or more rules. on network packet properties or IDS / log monitor events, enabling a user to track a problem back to the root causes in the configuration file. By using InfoSecter's functional model, IT staff can improve their firewall change review process by computing the functional differences between old and new versions of the configuration. InfoSecter also provides a constraint language for expressing security policy requirements. The user can write constraints of their policy and use InfoSecter to compute whether their firewalls are in compliance with the policy. These constraint checks can be scripted to be run periodically or on each configuration change to ensure continual security policy compliance. These operations give the security professional an extra tool to save time and effort while improving the organization's overall security stance. Previous versions of InfoSecter could analyze firewall configurations for PIX, ASA Asa (ā`sə), in the Bible, king of Judah, son and successor of Abijah. He was a good king, zealous in his extirpation of idols. When Baasha of Israel took Ramah (a few miles N of Jerusalem), Asa bought the help of Benhadad of Damascus and , IOS (1) (Internetwork Operating System) An operating system from Cisco that is the primary control program used in its routers. IOS is widely used and robust system software that supports the common functions of all products under Cisco's CiscoFusion architecture. , FWSM FWSM Firewall Services Module devices from Cisco, Netscreen devices from Juniper, and Checkpoint (programming) checkpoint - Saving the current state of a program and its data, including intermediate results, to disk or other non-volatile storage, so that if interrupted the program could be restarted at the point at which the last checkpoint occurred. firewalls. With version 1.2, InfoSecter can also analyze configurations from the popular open source iptables firewall package. In 1.2 support for Cisco security devices is improved, expanding support for IOS firewalls by analyzing both context based access control (CBAC CBAC Context-Based Access Control CBAC Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee CBAC Cyd-Bwyllgor Addysg Cymru (Welsh Joint Education Committee) CBAC Council for Business and the Arts in Canada ) configurations and zone based firewall (ZBF ZBF Zythos Beer Festival (Belgium) ZBF Z Buffer ZBF Zero Byte Free ZBF Zero Byte File ZBF Zero Beat Frequency ) configurations and extending support for ASA up to version 8.2. By continuing to expand security device support, the InfoSecter approach helps a larger audience improve the accuracy of their network security policy implementation. You can experiment with the features of InfoSecter 1.2 through free web applications at http://network-geographics.com/tools. For documentation and pricing visit http://network-geographics.com/infosecter or call 888.276.2027. |
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