KDDI Europe, a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan’s second largest integrated telecoms operator KDDI Corp, has contracted US-based Juniper Networks to supply it with Secure Access SSL VPN appliances to launch a managed service providing secure remote network access in Europe.

Celestix Networks Inc., developer of enterprise class security appliances, today announced the launch of seven different models of security appliances based on Microsoft Internet Security&Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006. These purpose-built appliances are designed to meet the rigorous reliability, performance and management standards of businesses of all sizes.

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (?IIJ?, NASDAQ: IIJI, TSE Mothers: 3774), one of Japan's leading Internet access and comprehensive network solutions providers, today announced the November 1 release of the IIJ Managed Firewall Service, a new managed security service that uses an anomaly detection(1) system and comes with a Service Level Agreement (SLA)(2).

During the past year, the Passive Vulnerability Scanner's rules were modified to detect network proxies and firewalls. This process also involved the reduction of reporting multiple browser types for different hosts running behind a NAT device or proxy.

As an example, what happens if PVS (or any sniffer, IDS, etc.) see's the following string in a packet leaving the network?

London and Karlsruhe (Germany) xx September 2006 ? Astaro Corporation (www.astaro.co.uk), a leader in providing unified threat management security solutions, has announced today that Astaro Security Gateway V6.300 has received the coveted Common Criteria certification from the German Federal Office for Information Security BSI (Bundesamt f?r Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik).