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Cornerstone Policy Server

How secure is your network? Without comprehensive Security Policy Management,that's a tough question to answer. Cornerstone, from Stonewall Networks, gives security conscious companies a network view of security and a single source for network security policy management. Why is this important? Without central management of network security resources, security settings can be misconfigured or out of sync with approved corporate security policies.

Cornerstone lets you accelerate the introduction of new network security policies and new service offerings with confidence. Less time is spent training and installing, thereby reducing operational costs. Even more importantly, your network is more secure, and it can be proven for audit and regulatory compliance.

Cornerstone provides centralized, consistent, and reliable management of security policies for all managed security devices. Security policies are evaluated, configured, and monitored for the entire network without the need for manual interaction with individual network devices. This approach saves time, reduces training, and provides unparalleled security when deploying new services over complex networks.

Use Cornerstone to set your security policies, and we'll take it from there. Cornerstone knows your equipment, providing multi-vendor support for today's networks. It can even help evaluate security policies to improve overall network security. Cornerstone scales with your network; as the network grows, Cornerstone grows too, using our patented TrueScale technology. TrueScale provides the flexibility to manage devices efficiently, effectively, and redundantly in networks of all sizes.


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Cornerstone has been designed with deference to a number of security policy management issues in today's networks. Key concerns to all Security Management Platforms are speed, scale, and performance. With this in mind Cornerstone has been designed with a three-tier implementation that may reside on a single server. Alternatively, each tier may occupy independent servers to take advantage of the Cornerstone TrueScaleTM technology. This allows the majority of network intensive device policy traffic to be distributed to the Cornerstone Device Manager, which is deployed as close to the managed devices as possible. The Cornerstone Policy Manager then brings you the speed and power of a centralized system. While the Cornerstone Management Console may either reside on the Policy Manager or on a remote client providing access to the Policy Manager server to process device or network wide policy changes.

For detailed configuration diagrams and ordering information please read the Cornerstone ordering guide and data sheet.

The table below represents the suggested hardware requirements given the different rolls for the Device Manager and Policy Server.

System Requirements Appliance Configurations
(for Stand Alone Policy Manager) (for Device Manager)
Form Factor 2U 19" Rack Mount
CPU Dual 3.0GHz, 1MB Cache
Memory 4GB DDR2 400MHz
Storage U320 SCSI RAID
Hard Drives 4 x 73GB 15k RPM RAID-5+1
Network Dual Gigabit NICs
Form Factor 1U 19" Rack Mount
CPU 2.8GHz, 1MB Cache
Memory 1GB DDR3200 400MHz
Storage SATA RAID 1
Hard Drives 2 x 80GB
Network Dual Gigabit NICs