| Firewall Software includes distinct protection layers.
With desktop firewall, port manager, URL filtering, process monitor, and application/system behavior modeling and anomaly detection components, Privatefirewall v5.0 delivers signature-less, zero-hour protection from known or new spyware, viruses, hacking techniques, and other intrusions on Windows desktops and servers. It evaluates WinAPI calls and analyzes system variables/security-sensitive registry keys and alerts administrators to possible malware, attack, or policy violations.
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Piercing The Golden Shield
August 5, 2007: In China, foreign intelligence agencies are finding they have an increasingly difficult time getting into government, and commercial computers. While better use of computer security tools (firewalls, intrusion detection software, etc) has something to do with this, the main reason is the 30,000 Ministry of Public Security employees working for the Golden Shield Project (known unofficially as The Great Firewall of China). The main job of these cops is to monitor Internet use throughout the country, and prevent "troublesome" Internet data from getting in, or out, of China. Since 1998, over a billion dollars has been spent on this effort. This has inspired other police states, like North Korea, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Syria, Iran, Cuba, and Myanmar to do the same. All this is not just to control Internet use by locals, but to provide a major tool for protecting state secrets. While the Great Firewall cannot stop someone expert at how the Internet works, it does greatly restrict the other 99 percent of Internet users.
Hardening your systems with Bastille Linux
System administrators need to secure their systems while avoiding locking them down so strictly that they become useless. Bastille is a software tool that eases the process of hardening a Linux system, giving you the choice of what to lock down and what not to, depending on your security requirements. It bundles many of the tasks routinely done to securely configure a Linux system into one package. .
Incident Management System protects remote assets.
SimGuard 6000 enables organizational headquarters to detect and control incidents in remote facilities. It builds virtual reality model of each remote facility, including a virtual installation of actual sensors, and stores it in database. Sensors include cameras, fences, access-control devices, GPS, RFID, fire alarm sensors, and intrusion detection devices. Vulnerability assessment of each remote site is constantly performed based on simulation of various potential scenarios.
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Win Symantec products worth over £1,800
Together with security company Symantec, Computeractive is giving away a free copy of the Norton 360 internet security suite to the 30 lucky winners of this competition. Norton 360 is a comprehensive security package that protects computer users against online threats, offering a full circle of protection and cutting out the need to have several security products running on one PC. The program has a full anti-virus component, firewall, spyware remover and an
anti-phishing feature. It can also be used to back up files and other important data to a secure online service, or to CDs, DVDs or an external hard disk. Norton 360 can also be used to remove unwanted internet clutter and temporary files that can slow your computer’s performance.
Latest AV Weapons for Disarming Software Miscreants
In the early days of antivirus protection, all vendors used basically the same approach. Antivirus software scanned a computer's memory and all the files on the hard drive, and then compared them to a database of signatures that matched known malicious code. The only real difference among antivirus software vendors was in the ability of their researchers to find new malicious code before their competitors did. How rapidly and how often vendors issued signature updates also differentiated good antivirus programs from the better ones. Over the last few years, virus writers have taken their malicious code delivery methods to new heights, and that has forced security firms to adapt. .
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