Skybox Security, the leader in proactive security management solutions, today announced it will present a webcast titled Intelligent Firewall Management: The Key Ingredient for Network Consolidation Success, on Wednesday, May 23 at 11 a.m. Eastern, as part of the SANS complimentary series of webcasts.

Emsisoft Online Armor is a firewall for Windows that permanently monitors network activities as well as active software and thus helps to prevent hacker attacks; the new version 5.5 makes double use of the power of the cloud; on the one hand, the firewall is now linked to the Anti-Malware Network with more than 4 million known programs and therefore highly reduces alarm messages, and it uses in-house cloud-scanning to expose malicious files even quicker. The firewall is always active in the background and silently monitors network and file activities, granting access to authorized programs only. Hackers cannot hijack your computer as all vulnerabilities are closed and suspicious actions are blocked.

Icon Labs a leading provider of embedded networking and security technology, today announced the availability of Icon Labs’ Floodgate Firewall with Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI). With the addition of Stateful Packet Inspection, Floodgate is the only embedded firewall providing complete protection against Internet-based attacks.

Juniper Networks introduced significant additions to the Juniper Networks® vGW Virtual Gateway solution for customers looking for a comprehensive virtualization security platform.   New functionalities will provide virtualization-specific antivirus (AV) protections and continuous monitoring against malware and hackers, while simultaneously ensuring that security does not impede virtualized workload performance or present a barrier to implementing large-scale virtualized environments.

Sophos (“Sophos”), a global security leader, today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Astaro, a privately held provider of network security solutions, headquartered in Wilmington, Massachusetts, USA and Karlsruhe, Germany.

Palo Alto Networks™, the network security company, today announced the immediate availability of GlobalProtect™, the new PA-5000™ Series, and its fourth major release of PAN-OS™. For the first time, this new hardware and software extends the unique enterprise capabilities of Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls to meet network security demands in three distinctive ways:

Icon Labs, a leading provider of embedded networking and security technology, today announced the availability of Floodgate-Packet FilterTM, an embedded firewall that allows networked devices to control the packets they process.  Floodgate protects against potentially malicious attacks by filtering packets before they are processed by an embedded device. Floodgate provides both threshold-based filtering and rules-based filtering. 

SonicWALL, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent network security and data protection solutions, today released its end-of-year summary of cyber-security intelligence. The report reveals global trends in potentially threatening network activity and application usage. Data for the summary was collected throughout 2010 from the SonicWALL Global Response Intelligent Defense (GRID) Network.

Sourcefire, Inc. , the creator of Snort(R) and a leader in intelligent cybersecurity solutions, today unveiled its expansion into the Next- Generation Firewall (NGFW) market and introduced three new Defense Center Awareness Bundles for its Next-Generation Intrusion Prevention System (NGIPS). The combined solutions provide organizations comprehensive threat protection -- securing the perimeter, data center and cloud.

SonicWALL, Inc. a leading provider of intelligent network security and data protection solutions, today unveiled its Comprehensive Anti-Spam Service (CASS) 2.0 giving small-to-medium-sized businesses unparalleled and comprehensive protection against spam and malicious code.