Yoggie(TM) Launches the World's First Miniature Computer to Protect and Manage Laptops

PALO ALTO, California, September 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Yoggie Security Systems(TM) has today announced the launch of the Yoggie Gatekeeper(TM), a revolutionary credit-card sized computer that brings all corporate-class security applications within the reach of mobile and remote workers. For the first time ever, mobile workers can access the Internet from hotspots, airports and hotel rooms, safe in the knowledge that their laptop is protected by the Yoggie Gatekeeper(TM), which provides the same level of security enjoyed by counterparts within the corporate network - all through a device that fits in the palm of your hand.

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The Yoggie Gatekeeper(TM) represents a major shift in content security technology. It is a miniature and robust computer that uses a fully hardened and secure embedded OS with the sole purpose of protecting the Windows XP platform. The Yoggie Gatekeeper(TM) eliminates the need to have multiple security applications on Windows XP that may conflict between each other, and drastically reduce end user computer performance. The technology presents an alternative to the recently introduced OS virtualization implemented by software, as the Yoggie appliance physically separates security applications by placing them on dedicated hardware. The hardened OS, security applications, and powerful platform enable a high level of security with hassle-free installation while high performance is guaranteed.

"The Yoggie Gatekeeper(TM) is changing the security landscape as we know it," says Shlomo Touboul, CEO and founder of Yoggie Security Systems(TM). "We have developed an appliance that is dedicated to protecting its host computer. This is a completely new concept and will dramatically enhance worker productivity while improving security, manageability and operability of the traveling computer."

Yoggie Gatekeeper(TM) Technology

Developed by a team headed by Shlomo Touboul, founder and former CEO of Finjan Software, the Yoggie Gatekeeper(TM) combines multiple enterprise-class applications with proprietary technologies on a hardened Linux operating system. The device includes a stateful inspection firewall with two separate network interface cards, a VPN client, application level antivirus, robust IDS and IPS systems, full application level and transparent proxies (HTTP, STP, SMTP, POP3), which send content to be inspected by the following security engines: antispyware, layer 8 security engine, multi-layer security agent, antiphising, antispam and optional URL filtering. The Yoggie Gatekeeper's(TM) patent-pending Adaptive Security(TM) policy dynamically manages and adjusts security levels in response to each new attack thereby eliminating the need for the end user or IT manager to modify security policies manually.

Through new patent-pending technologies, the Yoggie Gatekeeper(TM) offers an additional layer of security to that provided by the software on the device. The Layer 8 Security Engine (patent pending) is a proprietary technology that defends from unknown and new viruses, Spyware, worms etc. It sits on top of the proxies (HTTP, FTP, Pop3 and SMTP) and analyzes the objects that arrive from these protocols. Yoggie has also developed the Multi-Layer Security Agent (MLSA), which receives security related events from the packet security agent up to the layer 8 engine. The patent pending technology of the MLSA is able to block attacks at the packet level as they start to constitute a risk at the application level. The security agent monitors scanning results provided by the different security software and builds a puzzle to identify an attack even if it is not recognized by each of the individual subsystems.

The protection afforded by Yoggie extends beyond the laptop: the Yoggie Management Server(TM) (YMS) provides the organization's IT management with early warning of suspicious behavior through a proprietary technology that calculates the real-time risk level for every Yoggie Gatekeeper(TM) device. The YMS thus enables IT organizations to have real time, constant, consistent and un-paralleled visibility into their distributed laptop platforms, regardless of location.

Hassle-free security, for multiple target beneficiaries

With the Yoggie Gatekeeper(TM), security becomes completely transparent to the user: there are no installations, configurations, or updates and the device is not as resource intensive as traditional security software-only solutions.

The Yoggie Gatekeeper(TM) is the first solution on the market that settles the ownership conflict between IT organizations and end users, providing each party with exactly what they need - retained control, remote policy enforcement, and corporate-level security for the IT organization; with freedom to roam without having to reformat and clean a laptop on re-entry to a safe corporate environment for the end user.

In addition to the inherent and immediate benefits to corporate IT organizations of any scale, and their respective mobile and remote workforces, the Yoggie(TM) is equally effective in addressing the Internet and networking security needs of individual consumers, at home and or on the move, (without the need for the central management server designed for larger enterprises); a single Yoggie Gatekeeper(TM) can protect a network of up to five workstations. Similarly, the appliance can serve as the overall Internet security solution for SMB organizations.

Availability

Yoggie Personal Security Gatekeeper(TM) will be available during November 2006, through distributors in the US, UK and Germany and shortly afterwards via http://www.yoggie.com.

About Yoggie Security Systems(TM)

Yoggie Security Systems(TM), established in 2005 by Shlomo Touboul, former founder and CEO of Finjan Software, and the inventor of Behavior Based Blocking Technology, has developed a unique hardware/software security appliance, the Yoggie Gatekeeper(TM). The robust, credit-card size Gatekeeper combines best-of-breed security applications with proprietary technologies, to protect traveling laptop users from large enterprises, SMBs, and SOHO, as well as individual consumers, against a variety of malicious code attacks by simply plugging it into a laptop, home computer or home network. Yoggie(TM) is headquartered in Israel and has several patents pending. For more information, please visit http://www.yoggie.com

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