June 07, 2012 NETWORK BOX USA

Leading MSSP Network Box Corporation Achieves IPv6 Ready Certification

HOUSTON, TX–Leading Managed Security Services Provider, Network Box Corp., has achieved IPv6 Ready certification for its cutting-edge NBRS Ver5.0 OS Platform. Based on the latest Phase-2 4.0.6 test specification, the MSSP is the first, and so far, only provider of Managed Security Services to have had its proprietary managed security service delivery platform attain such a certification (IPv6 Ready ID number is 02-C-000779).

“The IPv6 support and innovation we’ve implemented are foundational aspects of the NBRS Ver5.0 OS,” Pierluigi Stella, CTO of Network Box USA, “and while we do not foresee an immediate need to panic over IPv4, enterprises do have to prepare for the reality that IPv4 addresses will be gone for good, sooner rather than later, and that IPv6 will be the order of the day.”

One of the new modules built into the NBRS Ver5.0 OS is an Input Translation module which undertakes the Internet’s migration from IPv4 to IPv6 by providing cutting-edge IPv4-to-IPv6 bridging. As with some other UTM solutions, the NBRS Ver5.0 implements a dual-stack solution to address the migration, providing network stacks and support for IPv4 and IPv6, but that’s where the similarity ends.

Mark Webb-Johnson, CTO of Network Box Corporation added, “The NBRS Ver5.0 enlists router-level technologies as well as high-level proxies and services to perform bi-directional translations between all combinations of IPv4 and IPv6. This enables IPv4 clients to seamlessly connect to IPv6 servers and IPv6 clients to IPv4 servers. The result is a network architecture suited for the present and future.”

IPv6 Ready is an internationally recognized certification awarded to vendor products after they undergo a comprehensive set of tests that measure the compliance of the products’ IPv6 networking stack against constructs; features; and behaviors defined within the official IPv6 internet standards.

About The Network Box UTM Device
The Network Box Internet security device is a remotely managed unified threat management (UTM) appliance combining numerous applications ~ firewall, intrusion prevention and detection, virtual private network, content filtering, anti-virus, anti-spam, anti-phishing, and anti-spyware ~ in one single, sophisticated mix of hardware and software. It enables businesses to combat hackers, worms, backdoors and other online menaces, easily and cost-effectively.

The new NBRS Ver5.0 OS is now available and supported on all of Network Box’s modern UTM hardware devices, including devices already in operation. The NBRS Ver5.0 availability for older equipment is upcoming, along with other options such as hardware acceleration for various functions, including SSL and VPN encryption.

About Network Box USA
Houston-based Network Box USA (www.networkboxusa.com), the American division of Network Box Corporation Limited, is a leading Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) in the domestic market. The company was formed in response to the increasing danger posed by security breaches, virus attacks and similar threats arising from widespread use of the Internet.

Guided by the belief that the same high level of computer protection which large enterprises enjoy should be made available to every organization, Network Box offers businesses of all sizes cutting-edge security solutions that are exceptional and affordable.

Since 2000, it has served hundreds of global companies, organizations, and government agencies with award-winning, state-of-the-art cyber security built on the Network Box’s comprehensive protection, real-time technology.

The company embraces a revolutionary approach against escalating Internet threats by adopting a model of real time protection which extends across all modules of its award winning UTM devices. Signatures are created and PUSHed to these devices, globally, within three seconds, thus ensuring true real time protection for its portfolio of clients. In the United States alone, Network Box USA protects in excess of 150 banks and credit unions.

Network Box USA is headquartered at 2825 Wilcrest Dr, Suite 259, Houston, Texas 77042. For more information, please call 832-242-5758 or (toll free) 888-315-8886; fax: 713-933-0290; or email info@networkboxusa.com