Protecting Your Networks at the Perimeter: New Solutions for Stopping Blended Internet Threats

Protecting Your Networks at the Perimeter: New Solutions for Stopping Blended Internet Threats
from St. Bernard

White Paper

Description:
Because of the proliferation of Web-based threats, you can no longer rely on basic firewalls as your sole network protection. One effective defense to these types of attacks is to deploy a content-aware, perimeter-based network security device that inspects and blocks Web requests based on URL destination. This white paper examines the threats of allowing unwanted or offensive content into your network and describes the technologies and methodologies to combat these types of threats

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Managing outbound Web traffic, IM, and P2P software increases the defense of your network. The iPrism appliance augments your firewall to help protect your network in ways that a traditional firewall can not. It inspects the network traffic passing across your firewall and looks at the URLs and allows or denies the request based on rules that you create. Also, you can allow or block most IM and P2P software connections. The appliance uses a subscription service to populate its URL database, which helps ensure that categorizations don’t go stale and that new sites are quickly included. This type of perimeter network security solution can be put into place without affecting your current firewall solution and once installed will help defend your network from phishing attacks, IM/P2P usage, and access to inappropriate Web sites.

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