Palo Alto Networks, the network security company, has extended its technology and market leadership with new next-generation firewall software and a major customer milestone. With its PAN-OS 3.1 software, Palo Alto Networks enables finer-grained control over business and Web 2.0 applications for enterprises and distributed computing environments. The company has surpassed the 1,000 enterprise customer milestone, which includes Fortune 500 organizations such as Constellation Energy, DTE Energy, Qualcomm and Western &Southern Financial Group.

Astaro Corporation, a leading network security vendor, today announced that Astaro is offering a . The silent business audit and forensic analysis will demonstrate what spyware and malware is able to get by the organization's spam filter  and will provide insight into Internet usage trends.

Today, Trapeze Networks, a Belden brand, announced global availability of the Trapeze RF Firewall, a location-based firewall securing wireless LAN networks (WLANs). The Trapeze RF Firewall is the first application available on the new Trapeze LA-200E Location Appliance, also announced today.

Panda Security, the Cloud Security Company, today announced the availability of its unified threat management (UTM) appliance, Panda GateDefender Integra. Designed for small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs), the UTM appliance is available in two models: Panda GateDefender Integra SB, a new model designed exclusively for businesses with up to 50 employees and Panda GateDefender Integra 300, for companies with between 50 and 250 stations.

Stonesoft, a provider of proven, innovative network security solutions, today introduced the new StoneGate(R) FW-1030 appliance with next generation firewall capabilities. This firewall solution provides the highest levels of data security for small enterprises and remote offices combined with StoneGate's built-in high availability features that guarantee always-on connectivity.

The security experts at Agnitum, the provider of Outpost Pro product line, are pleased to announce a new free version of the award-winning Outpost Firewall.Outpost Firewall Free, which can be acronymed OFF yet the protection is
always ON, becomes available to all modern Windows users with 100% OFF
the price expected from a powerful security solution.

Astaro (www.astaro.com), leading vendor of security appliances, today announced the "Raise Your Nokia's IQ" promotion, allowing owners of Nokia hardware appliances to easily upgrade from Check Point's security software to Astaro's full-featured unified threat management (UTM) solution, Astaro Security Gateway (ASG), for free.

Yoggie Security Systems(TM) today launched its new Open Firewall Pico(TM) and Open Firewall SOHO(TM), the firstopen hardware firewalls based on its award-winning Gatekeeper technology.The Open Firewall products are extremely powerful Linux-based miniature computers with 520 MHz ARM CPU, 128 RAM and 128 Flash memory.

European researchers are developing the world’s first optical firewall capable of analysing data on fibre optic networks at speeds of 40 gigabits per second. Their work promises to save the internet from the looming threat of network security bottlenecks.

Tall Emu has released Version 3 of Online Armor personal firewall software, which promises to be even better than the award winning version 2 - winner of “The Best Firewall Software of 2008”. The new version of Online Armor now supports Vista (32bit), offers even better protection, has an improved GUI interface, is easier to use and is more robust. It is also now available in Italian and French with many more languages to be rolled out over the next couple of months.