Introduction

Network Protection Using Unobtrusive Blocking

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 network protection uses patent pending "unobtrusive blocking" to block inappropriate traffic based on rules or in response to a specific alert.

Until Sessionwall was introduced in 1997, the only option a company had was to purchase multiple diverse standalone software products. Now Sessionwall network protection users can see how their network is being used, identify the exposures, provides immediate assistance to protect their network and minimize any business exposures using a single comprehensive product.

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.

Sessionwall Release 4 (V1R4) is designed to be used as a standalone or complementary network protection product. It includes a world-class monitoring and usage viewing, intrusion detection and service denial attack detection engine, an extensive URL control list of more than 500,000 categorized sites, a world-class Java/ActiveX malicious applet detection engine as well as a virus detection engine. It complements all popular "firewalls" to extend application-specific protection, provide intrusion detection, and audit the current settings. Sessionwall network protection also interfaces with FireWall-1 using the OPSEC interface.

What Makes Sessionwall Network Protection Different

Sessionwall represents the latest generation of Internet and Intranet protection technology. It is an unobtrusive, yet effective, network security software product that provides you with information, alerts and controls to protect your company from external attacks and intrusions, and internal abuses.

Sessionwall provides you with the industry’s most comprehensive solution to control the effective use of Internet technologies in a business environment. It provides this control with very sophisticated, yet easy to use, software that monitors, detects, blocks, alerts and logs specific access events and the associated data.

Sessionwall is the third generation of network protection. The previous two generations are firewall and proxy servers. The primary differences between Sessionwall and earlier firewall protection systems are:

	Sessionwall provides a much broader set of functions.
	Sessionwall operates at the level of specific network application sessions, and monitors and blocks without introducing any network delays.

Sessionwall is designed for easy installation, ease of operation, total operational transparency from users, easy control access and documentation, and the ability to provide such services without any network address changes or network delays, even at very high network traffic levels.

Sessionwall monitors and protects your network by:

	Monitoring network activity.
	Detecting intrusions, attacks, viruses, and other abuses.
	Identifying more than 200,000 URLs as they are accessed.
	Sending alerts.
	Performing or invoking actions when certain events occur
	Blocking unwanted activities.
	Providing detailed and summarized reports.
	Sending notifications to the user.