Entensys Announces UserGate Proxy & Firewall 5.3 July 13, 2010 - Entensys announced the release of new UserGate Proxy & Firewall 5.3, company"s Internet access and LAN intrusion protection solution. UserGate Proxy & Firewall 5.3 features Windows Integrated Authentication support and Active Directory synchronization. Additionally, the vendor has introduced certain changes into the traffic control system to satisfy numerous requests of users; for example, exceptions are now available in the URL category filtering module. Integration of the latest version of Kaspersky Antivirus engine is one of the key changes in UserGate Proxy & Firewall 5.3. This new version of antivirus includes an updated database of virus signatures and heuristics module to help detect similar threats, support of over 4,000 formats of archivers and compressors and an advanced heuristics module. All registered users of previous 5.x versions can update their product to the new version free of charge. Users who want to get a closer look at the program can download a fully-functional 30-day trial version from the vendor"s website: www.entensys.com/download. Active Directory Synchronization Set Active Directory synchronization parameters (domain name, controller address, log-in, password and polling interval in seconds) on the Group page and select the AD group to synchronize with in UserGate group properties. Users from the selected domain groups will be automatically added to the corresponding UserGate groups. Authorization type will be set to “HTTP (NTLM) authorization". Windows Integrated Authentication (aka NTLM authentication) Used both with and without AD synchronization. Based on SSO (Single Sign On) method: set proxy address and port in the client"s browser settings to enable automatic authorization in UserGate when requesting any website. Authorized users will have access to all UserGate services, including NAT rules. New Kaspersky Labs SDK New SDK v.8 is now used to replace the old version of SDK v.4. Virus definitions in the new Kaspersky SDK do not support older definitions. About Entensys Corporation Entensys is an international security software vendor and a developer of several award-winning Internet connection sharing and firewall products. Entensys" products solve complex security concerns by continually addressing new security threats, as well as increase information protection and ensure corporate IT infrastructure reliability
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