Network Protection

Computer Associates publishes the eTrust suite of network protection software that advances the state-of-the-art of networking by significantly reducing the time required to manage and to ensure a safe and highly effective network.

Providing network protection requires the right software tools. Unfortunately, even using the right tools without an audit mechanism may cost companies dearly. For example, according to leading firewall experts, over 50% of the installed firewalls are implemented incorrectly due to lack of expertise, the subtleties of the configuration, and the vulnerabilities in the underlying operating system.

As a result, it is no wonder that companies have been slow to use network protection tools. Most companies want to see more pieces of the network protection puzzle in place before they make a purchase. Companies are looking for components that crisply display their network's usage in order to identify where policies are required and what needs to be blocked. Additionally companies want verification that they are receiving the policy compliance and network protection they expect.

As you connect your local or corporate network to the Web and use Internet technology within your company, you are faced with two major concerns:

	sheltering your network against outside intrusion and attacks.
	protecting your company from internal abuse and productivity loss.

Sessionwall provides an effective and economical way to quickly and easily address both concerns and to avoid the need to change your current network topology, introduce any network performance overhead, or require an extensive planning and implementation cycle.

Sessionwall is an easy to use, software only, network analyzer. It "sniffs" the traffic as it goes by and scans the content, displays, reports, logs and alerts, and provides a "see-it-all" viewer which presents specific communications in an easy to understand manner. Additionally, Sessionwall protection uses patent pending "unobtrusive blocking" to block inappropriate traffic based on rules or in response to a specific alert.

Sessionwall can be installed on any network attached Windows 95/98 or NT 4.0/5 machine and can process the network traffic from one or more Ethernet, Token Ring and FDDI local network segments. From an operational standpoint Sessionwall takes the mystery out of installing and operating a network protection solution. Sessionwall actually provides the much desired insights that were previously unattainable without multiple tools and laborious analysis.

Sessionwall has been renamed eTrust Intrusion Detection and is now considered to be part of the eTrust suite of eBusiness security products. To learn more about eTrust Audit and its components and features, please visit our web site dedicated to eTrust by clicking on the button below.

With Audit Central, you have the ability to collect enterprise-wide security events and system audit data, filter collected information for consolidated viewing and reporting, and automatically trigger appropriate actions upon detecting unusual or malicious activities on the system. Audit Central can collect event information from a wide spectrum of sources, including UNIX and Windows NT servers, Web servers, eTrust products, mainframe security products, and other application services . and stores this information in a central database for easy access and reporting. Administrators use Audit Central for monitoring, alerting, and reporting information about user activity across platforms, while at the same time, triggering actions to be immediately deployed once Audit Central detects defined activity patterns.

Audit Central has been renamed eTrust Audit and is now considered to be part of the eTrust suite of eBusiness security products. To learn more about eTrust Audit and its components and features, please visit our web site dedicated to eTrust by clicking on the button below.

 

  eTrust Suite

The eTrust suite of network protection products, which includes Sessionwall and Audit Central, offers the comprehensive network protection capabilities that you need to proactively secure your environment, including Virtual Private Network (VPN), access control, user administration, encryption, malicious code and virus protection, X.500 directories, and more. This family of products can be implemented individually or as an integrated suite, delivering proven, best-of-class functionality to secure all resources from the browser to the mainframe.

eTrust secures every aspect of the eBusiness value chain, protecting your systems and networks as well as the mission-critical data and applications they enable. For example. eTrust Firewall and Encryption protect the network perimeter, Intrusion Detection combines surveillance and alert capabilities that help stop attacks and abuses, Anti-Virus detects and cures viruses automatically while Access Control defines policies that prohibit unauthorized system access. Perfect for any size organization, each of these tools delivers out-of-the-box functionality for quick deployment.

To learn more about the complete eTrust suite of network protection products, please visit our web site dedicated to eTrust at www.ebusiness-security.com.