Founded 1990, Stonesoft Corporation is a worldwide software company that develops, markets and sells a broad family of integrated network security solutions. Stonesoft provides enterprise-level network security and high availability clustering solutions for companies deploying business-critical network applications.

Stonesoft’s product vision is to create interoperable products that have centralized management, enabling layered defense, or defense-in-depth, with distributed security policy enforcement. These tools are needed to solve the real life problems customers see in today’s enterprise network. Stonesoft creates products for solutions that build networks that are secure, available, manageable, and scalable.

Stonesoft has its’ international headquarters in Helsinki, Finland; Americas headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia; and Asia Pacific regional headquarters in Singapore. Stonesoft has offices in Americas, including Canada, Mexico and Brazil. Its European offices are in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Switzerland. Stonesoft's Asia Pacific offices are in Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong and Australia. Stonesoft has more than 340 employees worldwide.

MILESTONES

1994 - Security system specialist
- Integrating world class solutions
- Consulting, system integration, technical support

1996 - Global producer of high availability products
for network security
- In mid 1990s there was no high availability market
- Stonesoft created high availability market on firewalls
- StoneBeat® product family launched

2003 - Philosophy-based vision driving development of manageable, scalable, and available security solutions

CUSTOMERS

Over 90 percent of Fortune 500 telecommunication companies, two out of every three top commercial banks, securities companies, and computer manufacturers depend on Stonesoft to enhance their network confidence with Stonesoft solutions.

A small sampling of customers include: Allianz, Bank of America, BNP-Paribas, Banco Zaragozano, Lufthansa, Merrill Lynch, NASA, NTT, Samsung, Shell Oil, Sonera, Terra Networks, Telefonica Time Warner, and various U.S. and foreign government agencies.

Stonesoft provides its customers the best high availability firewall and VPN solution, as well as significant cost savings. Stonesoft delivers and sells through professional channels in co-operation with leading integration, software, and hardware partners.

VISION
Security solutions are key components in effective e-business. Stonesoft has an exceptional ability to combine its security, high availability, and clustering expertise enabling Stonesoft to go beyond the traditional approach to security solutions. Stonesoft offers secure business continuity to customers and strives to be recognized as the forerunner in enterprise security and continuity, today and for the future.

PHILOSOPHY
Stonesoft believes in and understands simple, real life solutions to complex problems, promoting economic value for customers through vision driven development.

Stonesoft’s solutions are designed for real customers with real problems. Our products offer performance in real life conditions, not just fancy numbers from a laboratory test under controlled conditions. Stonesoft works to solve problems faced in the field, from the branch office, to the data center.

Stonesoft solutions simplify complexity in network security. In network security, added complexity decreases security. With simple solutions, you can improve security, lower the amount of work, and therefore increase productivity. Reductions in network security complexity also reduce management complexity and overall costs. Not every solution has an easy answer, but Stonesoft works to provide the simplest answer possible for any given problem.

Stonesoft’s solutions are not useful if they are not affordable. Affordablity goes beyond the up-front investment costs but includes the total cost of ownership. Simple solutions tend to reduce costs by lowering investments in new hardware or software, and by increasing employee productivity.

Stonesoft develops those solutions with a vision in mind. The development is driven by a passion -- a passion to do things in an innovative, responsive way, without boundaries. Stonesoft looks beyond the existing hardware and software limitations, to what solutions should be in the future. Stonesoft develops products while always questioning the contribution to the vision of solutions that build networks that are secure, available, manageable, and scalable.

STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS
Stonesoft has forged several key strategic partnerships and global industry alliances with leading security software developers, MSPs, channel distributors, and hardware manufacturers. Security software developers include: Aladdin Knowledge Systems, Check Point Software Technologies, Clearswift, Computer Associates, Finjan, F-Secure, iCognito, ISS, Microsoft, Network Associates, RSA Security Inc., Symantec, Trend Micro, Inc., and WebTrends Corporation; MSPs include: Genuity and Sonera channel distributors include: ADD, Afina Sistemi, Allasso, Forval Creative, GE Access, IT Way, Unipalm; Scribona and hardware manufacturer's include: IBM, Fujitsu-Siemens, Sun and HP.

SOLUTIONS
StoneGate High Availability Firewall and VPN
StoneGate is the first firewall and VPN solution offering high security, high performance and availability, featuring an integrated OS for increased security, multiple ISP and VPN load balancing to ensure continuous network connectivity, and advanced centralized administration tools for enterprise-wide management of the firewall infrastructure.

StoneGate has received a lot of positive feedback from across the world during 2002. For example, SC Magazine chose StoneGate as the “best buy” for the year 2002. The independent network and security testing agency, NSS Group, awarded StoneGate the highly respected NSS Gold Award. Network Computing chose StoneGate as the best VPN solution in the market.

StoneBeat® Product Line
The StoneBeat product line is the market leading software-based high availability and load balancing solution for network security. StoneBeat provides ease of use, consistent management, and a comprehensive application specific test subsystem.

StoneBeat's award-winning technology maximizes the effectiveness and availability of critical network components, such as third party firewalls, anti-virus protection, email/Web content scanning, malicious mobile code protection servers, and intrusion detection network sensors.

SERVICES
Stonesoft is dedicated to supporting its customers through every stage of network growth from planning and design, through implementation, and on-going management.

Stonesoft has a well established and highly recognized customer service organization that provides order administration, software support, and training services for all Stonesoft products. The goal of our customer services team is to provide services that maximize the customers return on investment on Stonesoft technologies.

Order administration is responsible for all handling orders, order confirmations, license certificates, license management and invoicing.

Professional services provide pre-sales and post-sales support to all Stonesoft customers with valid support and maintenance agreements. Support services are available on 8/5 or 24/7 basis. On request, professional services organization provides on-site installation, integration, and troubleshooting services.

Training services manage the Stonesoft Authorized Training Site (ATS) program, and arrange certification courses for all Stonesoft products.