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.

Yoggie Security Systems(TM) today launched the world's first miniature hardware internet security devices for MacBooks and Mac desktop computers. The new Gatekeeper PicoTM for Mac and Gatekeeper Card Pro(TM) for Mac, provide 12 internet security applications on a dedicated hardware that offloads security, improves productivity and protects users wherever they connect.

Third Brigade (www.thirdbrigade.com), a security software company specializing in host intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS), today announced a free host-based firewall that is ideal for securing virtual machines and cloud computing. As the foundation for re-establishing consistent security policy on cloud computing resources, the Third Brigade Deep Security Firewall enables tighter security policy to be applied on systems that have moved from internal (private) to external (public) computing clouds.