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Overview
Presently, main purposes of Internet usage is for Website access and file exchange through various applications such as P2P(Peer to Peer) and Messenger, as well as email. The usage purposes have become more diversified than ever. As applications become diversified, it has been more difficult to manage them appropriately by the use of existing security tools and systems so that the counter solution is strongly requested.
Challenge to Service Providers
Subscribers can download and run various P2P clients, enabling the creation of a P2P network on any service provider's network. The location and bandwidth consumed by P2P users is not commonly dictated or controlled by service providers so that traffic caused by P2P clients become dominant in the network over time. ISP's have been faced with several P2P issues:
Challenge to Enterprises
Today, About 80% of companies had some form of confidential data pass through their instant messaging systems and email. The most serious security headache for enterprises is the threat from data damage or theft, insecure staff actions. Majority of IT security losses are caused by internal confidential information leak. Insiders are beyond the perimeter of physical and electronic protection and get almost unlimited access to corporate network resources. Enterprises should take this issue with grave concern and do all in their power to ensure appropriate steps taken to minimize any legal exposure in addition to the damage that can be done to the organization at large.
ARA Networks Enterprise Security, TS (Traffic Sentinel)
TS is an application security solution to scrutinize and control employee use of the Internet and electronic communications with others outside of the organization. Using the principles of active policy management, TS helps organizations proactively manage communications likely to bring about potential legal liability, increase employee productivity, reduce unnecessary bandwidth usage and protect confidential and privileged corporate information, copyrighted materials, and intellectual property.
Managing Non-business Internet Access
Manage employee's non-business Internet access inside of the organization; Web browsing, P2P applications, Web mail and attachment, instant messaging, and Web hard.
Securing Corporate Information Assets
Secure usage of email and instant messaging to prevent confidential data from leaving the company network.
Provisioning Value-added Features
Help administrator to not only gain greater visibility into the network in real-time for monitoring, troubleshooting and management, but also take precautions against the possible security and network problems; Traffic Monitoring, Network Stiffer, Detection of Traffic Anomaly, Web Logging, Reporting.
Flexible Filtering Capabilities
TS makes it possible to monitor and filter Web mail usage, instant messaging activity, Web browsing, and P2P file exchanging through the flexible enforcement policy per corporate, department and user level. TS was built to prevent problems before they become serious or irreversible. The category of Web sites and applications to be disallowed for access can be predefined depending on the department¡ˢ徳 or user¡ˢ徳 roles in the organization. Further more, TS enhances the filtering flexibility by enabling administrators to build up user-defined database for newly created Websites or particular sites, as well as predefine limits on the maximum size of Web mail and attachment beyond which they will not be is successful.
Monitoring and Reporting
TS monitors various traffic let alone applications and Web traffic while providing statistics such as record of Web page browsed, and Web mail message and instant message sent and received (including attachments). Blocking and allowing actions are recorded per time of day, week, month, and year as well as per user and group, creating a reliable chronological audit trail.
Benefits
- Preventing the leakage of privileged and confidential information
- Keeping employees productive by throttling non-business Internet access
- Enhancing the security by blocking access to proxy server and controlling
applications using random ports which make firewall useless
- Applicable to high speed networks with up to 2.5GMbps
Case Study
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