Every so often, a hacking incident makes headline news and the need for IT security is reawakened throughout the South African IT market. What very few people realise is that it is actually extremely easy to protect not only their enterprises, but also their home machines against intrusions such as the one that Absa has had to fight through the last couple of days.
Security awareness is something that still has to be cultivated throughout SA, but it looks like the battle is slowly but surely being won. Now the question that lingers is what to do to protect oneself against attacks that could compromise sensitive data such as bank details, well the answer is simple, desktop protection.
Internet Security Systems offers desktop protection through the RealSecure Desktop Protector product range as well as the BlackIce product range. Desktop Protector Provides real-time protection against malicious activity by analysing application and network (including VPN) behaviour on desktops.
RealSecure Desktop combines a commercial-strength firewall with a market-leading intrusion prevention system and application protection to intelligently and unobtrusively block improper activity. Centrally managed through RealSecure SiteProtector for reporting and analysis, this easy-to-use, fully integrated solution provides active blocking protection against attacks, resulting in easier management and response coordination, lower support costs, and a reduced cost of ownership.
* Protects against complex Internet threats such as Nimda and Code Red.
* Safeguards confidential data from loss or theft.
* Reduces system downtime and helps maintain productivity.
* Eliminates the administrative burden of updating a multi-vendor solution, lowering overall costs.
Features and benefits
Application protection - Prevents Trojan applications from running by only allowing authorised programs to run. RealSecure Desktop`s advanced Application Protection capabilities prevent restricted applications from running by allowing administrators to build customised lists of unauthorised applications, ensuring that your desktop environment stays protected from unauthorised use and access.
Inbound and outbound IDS/blocking - Monitors all inbound and outbound traffic from new and unknown attacks as well as dynamically blocking inbound/outbound attacks through intelligent analysis of trusted applications. Good traffic is allowed while malicious or suspicious traffic is not, regardless of whether the application is "trusted" since many viruses, Trojans, worms and backdoors may use trusted applications to launch attacks.
VPN integration - Ensures that clients are in compliance with corporate policy before allowing them to have access to the corporate network through the VPN.
AV awareness - Ensures that the client has updated anti-virus software to thwart off attack.
Centralised management - Customers can control, monitor and analyse their security protection systems from one central site with a minimum of staff and operational costs. This integrated environment enables monitoring of intrusion activity, vulnerability assessment, event prioritisation and correlation of ongoing security activity, as well as multi-site management capabilities. No other solution provides the real-time end-to-end visibility into and across the enterprise-wide security program while capitalising on resource investments.
Advanced event correlation and analysis - Provides built-in X-Force security knowledge to dynamically escalate threatening security incidents and reduce false alarms. The module instantly correlates security data from multiple sources to escalate serious threats, such as an attack on a vulnerable asset or a covert, multi-step attack.
Backed by the X-Force - X-Force is the most respected security research group in the industry, having researched and identified security issues in products from Cisco, Microsoft, IBM, Sun, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, PeopleSoft, BMC, Polycom, Apache and many more. This cutting-edge research team actively turns security research into product improvements, allowing Internet Security Systems` customers to respond far more rapidly to evolving threats.
Global technical support - Provides customers with a wide array of support offerings, specifically designed to meet the cost and service demands of diverse networking environments.
For more information, visit www.condyn.net or contact Condyn on (012) 665 4356.
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