Juniper launches small to mid-range SRX appliances

Juniper released this week its SRX small to mid-range appliances for branch office and small to midrange office environments.  The first firewall and UTM appliance powered by JunOS, this product offers a blend of firewall security, UTM threat protection, and carrier-class routing functionality.  For more information contact Juniper sales at 773-871-1466. Back to Top

Understanding NAT differences between ScreenOS and JunOS

Juniper recently released an Application note explaining how Network Address Translation (NAT) is handled differently between JunOS and ScreenOS.  The application note appears here:
Juniper Networks SRX Series and J Series NATNATNAT for ScreenOS Users.
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Fortinet Threatscape April 20, 2009

Fortinet released its latest Threatscape report.   This report provides global coverage of malware threats, along with web blocking and spam trends. Back to Top

Fortinet releases FortiOS 4.0

Fortinet recently announced the release of FortiOS 4.0, which is a significant milestone for the security products industry.  Key additions to the Fortinet UTM product feature set include:

• Data content leakage protection
• WAN optimization (with specific hard drive equipped models)
• application control (application layer awareness) regardless of port and protocol
• SSL decryption and packet inspection
• Endpoint compliance and control

For further details go to http://fortinet.com/doc/FortiOS_BRO.pdf


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New Barracuda promotions for Spam Firewall and Web Filter

Barracuda is offering significant savings through June 30, 2009 on their model 300 Spam Firewall and their model 310 Web Filter appliance.  The promotion for the model 300 Spam Firewall applies to end users currently running Symantec Mail Security, Brightmail, or Message Labs spam filtering, and must be purchased with three years of energize updates.  The promotion drops the price of either model appliance to $1399.  Contact Synapse Networks sales today for pricing!   Back to Top

Juniper releases ScreenOS 6.2 for NetScreen-5GT and SSG appliances

Juniper has released ScreenOS 6.2 code for a range of firewall/VPN appliances including the SSG5, SSG 20, SSG 140, SSG 320M/350M, SSG 520/520M, SSG 550/550M, NetScreen-5GT, ISG 1000, ISG 2000, and NetScreen-5000 series appliances.  This release incorporates bug fixes from ScreenOS maintenance releases up to 6.1r3, 6.0r7, 5.4r10, and 5.3r10.

It is the first code release for the NetScreen-5GT appliance since ScreenOS 5.4, and extends the software life of these products for more than a year.

CAVEAT for NetScreen 5GT users!  This ScreenOS 6.2 update does not support Antivirus or Antispam UTM content subscriptions for the 5GT models.  If you need UTM support you will need to stay with ScreenOS 5.4.

The release notes for ScreenOS 6.2 can be found at http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/software/screenos/screenos6.2.0/rn_620_r1.pdf

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Free IPsec Remote Access VPN client for Windows

Shrew Soft Inc. has released a free IPsec VPN client software package for Windows 2000, Windows XP and 32 and 64-bit versions of Vista.  According to Shrew Soft, this client software offers many of the advanced features only found in commercial solutions and provides compatibility with Cisco, Juniper, Checkpoint, Fortinet and other vendors.

Instructions on how to configure the software to work with the Juniper SSG appliances can be found at http://www.shrew.net/support/wiki/HowtoJuniperSsg.

We welcome any feedback on your experiences with this software!

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SharePoint 2007 Design Links

If you have almost gone bald tearing your hair out customizing the look and feel of a SharePoint website, here are a few good sites I've come across that have helped me out:

SharePoint 2007 CSS Reference Guide - incredible table with all of the CSS elements mapped out and explained.

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Sample: Example Master Pages - a nice set of 4 default master templates to get an idea of what is possible.

SharePoint Scotland - a very nice site with lots of links to very useful design and customization articles and sites.

 

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Juniper SSL-VPN Firmware supports iPhone 2.0

With the IVE OS 6.2R1 release, native Clientless ActiveSync access is supported, without an additional license. This means that you don't have to expose your Exchange server to the Internet to get your email on your iPhone, you can login to your secure site from the phone and get your email safely and securely.

If you currently own a Juniper SA appliance and want to support iPhone users safely and securely, give us a call today to find out how to implement this new feature!



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Zimbra adds Blackberry support

Zimbra adding Blackberry server support  Back to Top

Aerohive launches 802.11n products

Aerohive is now shipping a line of 802.11n access points under their 300 series models.  The HiveAP 300 Series 802.11n Cooperative Control Access Points provide high performance dual concurrent (2.4 & 5 GHz) 802.11n (3x3) MIMO as well as dual 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports. Dual Ethernet ports allow the access points to use link aggregation to double performance or ensure reliability with redundant links.

A new feature available with the 300 series Access Points includes Dynamic Airtime Scheduling.  This feature dramatically improves wireless LAN performance by measuring each client's instantaneous data rate and airtime use and scheduling airtime based on IT-specified policies. It can be used to ensure that fast clients, such as 802.11n clients, aren't slowed down by lower-speed clients, and it can enforce IT-specified policies to ensure that critical applications and users receive adequate airtime.

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ScreenOS 6.1 released

Juniper announced the general release of ScreenOS 6 on April 23, 2007.  Platform supported with the new release are:
SSG 5, SSG 20, SSG 140, SSG 500/500M series appliances ISG 1000, ISG 1000-IDP, ISG 2000, ISG 2000-IDP
NetScreen-5000 Series
Key features of ScreenOS 6:
- support for new hardware modules for the SSG 140, 500/500M and SSG 20 appliances- AV scanning for Instant Messaging services
- various IDP enhancements
- bridge groups on SSG 140 and SSG500/500M Ethernet modules
- USB support on SSG devices
- authentication enhancements
ScreenOS 6 is available now from http://www.juniper.net/customers/support

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Juniper IVE support for IE7 and Vista

Juniper has released official support for IE7 in their latest builds of IVE OS 5.3 and 5.4, however support for Vista is not available in any release builds.  Support for Vista will come with the release of IVE OS 5.5 due out most likely in April 2007 timeframe. 

The beta program for IVE OS 5.5 has officially closed as of mid-March.

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Synapse partners with Riverbed!

We are proud to announce our new partnership with Riverbed, maker of world class WAN acceleration appliances. For more information or to arrange for an evaluation please call us!

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New Juniper small office / branch office security appliances now shipping

The new Juniper SSG 5 and SSG 20 security appliances are now shipping.  These new models offer a new level of performance, security and wide-area network integration based on the experience of NetScreen security and VPN technology and Juniper's core routing competency.  Key aspects of these new appliances are enhanced Unified Threat Management (UTM) capability, integrated routing, dial backup (V.92 analog and ISDN BRI) and new WAN interface modules on the SSG 20.  A wireless version of both the SSG 5 and SSG 20 is also available.

The SSG 20 offers one of the industry's first true integrated routing and security platforms in the small office / branch office marketplace.  With five 10/100 Fast Ethernet interfaces and two Physical Interface Module (PIM) slots the SSG 20 can connect directly to T1, E1 and ADSL circuits to provide a single appliance solution for routing, security and VPN site-to-site or remote access. 

The SSG 5 offers the same basic performance as the SSG 20 but with seven (7) 10/100 Fast Ethernet interfaces and options for an integrated V.92 dial backup modem or an ISDN BRI dial backup.  The limited "port mode" feature of the 5GT has been replaced by an increased number of security zones (ten on both models) and the flexibility of user defined Bridge Groups -- one or more physical interfaces in the same broadcast domain, forming a logical transparent bridge.

Both models feature 160 Mbps firewall and 40 Mbps VPN performance, 4000 concurrent sessions, 25 VPN tunnels, and support ten Security Zones and ten VLANs.  Both models also offer full OSPF, BGP and RIP dynamic routing support.  The SSG 20 features a number of WAN encapsulation protocols including Frame Relay, multilink FR, PPP, multilink PPP and HDLC.

UTM security features include

• Deep Inspection (DI)


• antivirus based on the Kaspersky engine that includes Anti-Phishing, Anti-Spyware, and Anti-Adware protection to stop viruses, Trojans and other malware


• Anti-Spam via the Symantec Brightmail engine


• Web filtering (URL content filtering) using SurfControl to block access to known malicious sites or inappropriate web content
  

The new hardware platforms run ScreenOS 5.4 code initially.

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