Yoggie Security Systems™ enhances its revolutionary range of Yoggie™ security computers through firmware update

Feature-packed update improves usability and functionality

Yoggie Security Systems™ has extended functionality and user-friendliness of the Yoggie Gatekeeper™ and Yoggie Pico™ series by releasing a new firmware update. This update, Version 1.3.0, which is a comprehensive response to direct customer requests and feedback, is available immediately for download and a full list of features and fixes can be found at (http://www.yoggie.com/PDF/Yoggie-1.3.0-RN.pdf).

The Yoggie customer-care team of 20 professionals is in constant dialog with its customers via the Yoggie™ Knowledge Base, support phone lines and email as well as direct interaction with Yoggie™ distribution partners, and has worked with users to identify the main areas for enhancement. All Yoggie Gatekeeper™ and Yoggie Pico™ computers will automatically and transparently detect, download and install the 11 additional features and 12 fixes on connection to the Internet. User action is not required.

Significant Firewall functionality enhancement

In this latest update, the firewall mechanism has been significantly redesigned and improved. There is now full control and configurability of all incoming and outgoing traffic. Additionally, on the Yoggie Gatekeeper™ models, the Port Forwarding component has also been upgraded to match the new improved firewall control.

Further improvements include interface quality and speed, new categories for the web filtering function and, in addition:

• Dialer improvements which now enable users to place a Yoggie Gatekeeper SOHO™ between the router and modem to facilitate simultaneous wired and wireless connectivity
• Improved user control over Yoggie’s unique Layer8™ Security Engine and Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention rules
• The log system, used to display security and system logs, has been improved with more user-friendly screens that also load more quickly
• Graphic CPU Usage and Temperature indicators have been added to the support section

Yoggie Security Systems™ has also implemented 12 fixes to enhance productivity of its devices including improvements to the current risk indicator and ability to update DNS servers.
Shlomo Touboul, Founder and CEO, Yoggie Security Systems™, “Our technical team has worked hard to implement this comprehensive list of enhancements. I believe that version 1.3.0 is a major step towards improving our product range and further provides users with the confidence they need to protect their computing devices wherever they may use them.”

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About Yoggie Security Systems™
Yoggie Security Systems™ was established in 2005 by Shlomo Touboul, former founder and CEO of Finjan Software, and the inventor of Behavior Based Blocking Technology. As a result of countless meetings with IT managers around the world, Mr. Touboul realized they all share a common concern – while security technology has matured to provide robust security, traveling laptops create security holes that jeopardize the security of the entire corporate network. Mr. Touboul decided to dare the impossible, to try to miniaturize all the security appliances found in the corporate server room into a credit-card size device that can be easily carried and connected to the laptop.

The attempt was successful. After two years of intensive research, the world’s first miniature security appliance was created – Yoggie Gatekeeper™. Putting all the security solutions into such a small device requires robust processing power, and indeed the Yoggie Gatekeeper is as strong as a full-blown Pentium III PC (520 Mpbs). But unlike a regular PC, it was designed as a security hardware, with a hardened operating system and physical separation between the unsafe zone (Internet) and the safe zone (connected to the laptop). Yoggie Gatekeeper solves the vulnerabilities of traveling laptops by effectively extending robust corporate security to the traveling workforce. In addition to serving the corporate world, Yoggie Gatekeeper is also suitable to SMBs and home users.

Yoggie also has wide industry recognition: Winner of RSA Innovation Station 2007, Red Herring 100 Europe 2007, is Personal Computer World Recommended, Techworld short listed and winner of the IDSA and Business Week Silver IDEA award.