SecureData, a member of the JSE-listed ERP.com Group, and the African distributor for TippingPoint Technologies, a division of 3Com, today announced that the latter's TippingPoint Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) protects customers against all vulnerabilities as announced by Microsoft on 8 November.
TippingPoint devices have been inoculated against these threats through the Digital Vaccine service, a remote update service that provides regular, pre-emptive protection against the latest threats. Vulnerabilities can be exploited to compromise business networks and gain access for malicious purposes. The TippingPoint IPS provides vulnerability protection in the form of virtual software patches to pre-emptively protect customers against exploits and worms.
"The Microsoft Bulletin of 8 November includes vulnerabilities in the Windows Metafile (WMF) and Enhanced Metafile (EMF) image formats. End-users could be compromised by merely viewing malicious Web links and e-mail attachments. Viruses, spyware and trojans could leverage these vulnerabilities," commented Dinesh Sequeira, manager of the Digital Vaccine security research team. "The TippingPoint Intrusion Prevention System expedites early protection for vulnerabilities prior to the emergence of an exploit."
The TippingPoint IPS provides protection for the following security bulletin announced by Microsoft (MS05-053) 'Vulnerabilities in Graphics Rendering Engine Could Allow Code Execution' (Rating: Critical)
The TippingPoint Intrusion Prevention System provides Application Protection, Performance Protection and Infrastructure Protection at gigabit speeds through total packet inspection. Application Protection capabilities provide fast, accurate, reliable protection from internal and external cyber attacks. Through its Infrastructure Protection capabilities, the TippingPoint IPS protects VOIP infrastructure, routers, switches, DNS and other critical infrastructure from targeted attacks and traffic anomalies. The TippingPoint Performance Protection capabilities enable customers to throttle non-mission-critical applications that hijack valuable bandwidth and IT resources, thereby aligning network resources and business-critical application performance.
For further information, please contact Andrew Ochse at telephone +27 11 257 8600; fax +27 11 257 8699; e-mail andrewo@securedata.co.za.
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TippingPoint, a division of 3Com, is the leading provider of network-based intrusion prevention systems that deliver in-depth application protection, infrastructure protection, and performance protection for corporate enterprises, government agencies, service providers and academic institutions. Our innovative approach offers customers unmatched network-based security with unrivalled economics, ultra-high performance, scalability and reliability. TippingPoint is based in Austin, Texas
3Com Corporation
3Com is a leading provider of secure, converged voice and data networking solutions for enterprises of all sizes. 3Com offers a broad line of innovative products backed by world-class sales, service and support, which excel at delivering business value for its customers. When customers exercise choice, their choice is 3Com.
SecureData
SecureData, an ERP.com company, is Africa's premier IT security solution provider. SecureData's solutions incorporate anti-virus and content security, endpoint security, network security, intrusion prevention and authentication and identity management.
SecureData's comprehensive "Managed Security Services" include design, audit, implementation, vulnerability assessment, outsourcing and hosting. SecureData distributes, sells and supports category leading IT security products to the public, corporate and SME sectors throughout Africa as well as products and services to the SOHO and consumer markets through partnerships with ISPs.
As well as being the sole distributor in Sub-Saharan Africa for Trend Micro, SecureData is the Sub-Saharan African distributor for US-based TippingPoint Technologies as well as for Application Security, eEye, Precise Biometrics, Red-M, Rocket Software, RSA Security, SPI Dynamics, St Bernard and Websense.
For more information, visit SecureData at www.securedata.co.za.
ERP.com
ERP.com is a JSE-listed company focused on the implementation, integration and management of enterprise applications in an e-business environment.
For more information, visit ERP.com at www.erpcom.co.za.
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