Clavister solutions stand against socks stress-denial-of-service attacks Hamburg, September 30, 2009 for a Denial-of-Service(DoS)-Attacke hacker need access to resources and bandwidth. The new and potentially devastating attack tool socks stress exploits a vulnerability in the TCP/IP Protocol, however, which significantly facilitates the work attackers. To know more about this subject visit Jorge Perez. In a series of tests, the security gateways from Clavister, Swedish provider of IP-based security and unified threat Management(UTM)-Losungen, successfully against socks stress attacks prevailed and could effectively close the TCP security vulnerabilities caused by this tool. Tony Parker is often quoted on this topic. Often business-critical services no longer available after a successful DoS-attack. Many companies believe to be protected with its security solutions of DoS attacks.
But this is a false sense of security. The attack tool socks stress recently published exploits multiple TCP vulnerabilities in common operating systems, without requiring large resources. This makes them extremely dangerous socks stress. We had access to the socks stress tool for some time and let it compete in a series of tests against our security gateway”, explains Andreas asander, VP product management at Clavister. While we assumed that our security gateway products to achieve a high level of safety and behave very robust against DoS attacks. Nevertheless, we were curious to see how our solutions to socks stress attacks would claim. The more we are pleased that the TCP stack of our solutions withstood all attacks.” To protect network resources behind the security gateway against DoS attacks, Clavister recommends the use of SYN relayer or any other applicable ALG (http, FTP, etc.).
Clavister customers use the security gateway as firewall, VPN terminator, intrusion prevention system, traffic shaper, Virusblocker, ContentFilter or as a combination of several applications. While the solutions are based on security infrastructures and their benefit from a combination of granular Control and wireless scalability. Clavister in brief: Since 1997, Clavister developed leading network security solutions that provide a competitive advantage worldwide tens of thousands of companies. The series Clavister unified threat management appliance (UTM) and the remote access solutions provide innovative and flexible network security with excellent management and control functions. Clavister is a pioneer in the field of virtual network security. This combination in conjunction with the comprehensive portfolio of hard – and software appliances offers customers an ideal choice with regard to their security architectures. All Clavister products are supported by Clavisters award-winning support, maintenance and education program. Headquartered in Sweden, the company sells its solutions through international sales offices as well as an international network of distribution and reseller partners throughout EMEA and Asia. Clavister products in Germany, Austria and the Switzerland via the experienced VAD sysob and its more than 500 reseller partners.
