| 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. |
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| 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: |
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| 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. |
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| ARA Networks Enterprise Security, TS (Traffic Sentinel) |
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| 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. |
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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. |
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Securing Corporate Information Assets
Secure usage of email and instant messaging to prevent confidential data
from leaving the company network. |
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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. |
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| Flexible Filtering Capabilities |
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| 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. |
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| Monitoring and Reporting |
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| 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.
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| 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 |