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You only have to pick up a paper or hear the daily business news to know that viruses and hackers are a real threat to business networks of all sizes. The question is no longer "Is there a threat to my business?" but instead, "What should I do about it?"
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Firewalls and VPNs are two key tools you can use to protect your network and combat the ever-growing range of viruses and would-be hackers who want nothing more than to rampage about your network. The HP ProLiant DL320 Firewall/VPN/Cache Server is an affordable, integrated, easy-to-use, and manageable hardware security and caching solution that you can quickly deploy to help protect key business applications, such as Microsoft Exchange Server, Outlook Web Access, Internet Information Services, and SharePoint® Portal Server.
HP is the first major vendor to offer a product that uses Microsoft's latest Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004. This server software integrates neatly with Windows® Active Directory® services so you can easily apply group- and user-level policy and authentication across a broad range of scenarios, including firewall policy, VPN authentication, and outbound Web proxy and access control.
To make it easier for your ProLiant servers to handle Secure Socket Layer (SSL) connections on secure Web application servers, HP offers the AXL600L SSL and AXL300 accelerator cards. When you add these cards to your ProLiant servers, you can vastly improve the number of SSL connections your servers can handle by offloading the SSL encryption and decryption onto a dedicated card.
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Trend Micro Client/Server/Messaging Suite for Small and Medium Business provides proactively updated antivirus and anti-spam protection for network environments. HP offers a 90-day, fully functional, trial version of this antivirus/anti-spam/content security solution as a pre-installed security element on HP ProLiant servers that come with an installed version of the Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 solution.
Trend Micro Client/Server/Messaging Suite scans and eliminates recognized viruses within a company's network and blocks identified spam at the email server before it reaches individual PCs. It reduces the risk of malicious attacks by filtering out unwanted email messages and unsafe attachments.
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In a dynamic Internet environment where new attacks occur daily, HP Firewall/VPN Server - Check Point Edition provides advanced capabilities to help small to midsize businesses defend their networks. This solution includes a pre-installed version of Check Point's SmartDefense technology to actively defend an organization from known and unknown network and application attacks.
The HP Firewall/VPN Server incorporates advanced virtual private network (VPN) technology. This technology allows authorized users to log onto a network over the internet and carry out secure communications. Your employees and clients can be comforted in knowing they have a solid solution that will help shield their words from online spies.
HP backs this solution with a year of free phone support from some of the most experienced security engineers in the business. For safer network security, this solution classifies attacks and rapidly detects, prevents, and responds to potential network intrusions by examining each data packet that tries to enter a network.
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Antivirus software is designed to look for virus signatures and trap infiltrators before they can spread through your network. However, when a new worm virus is first released and its signature is unknown, that virus can potentially run rampant on your company's network. The virus attacks at machine speed and there's simply no way for humans to keep up.
HP Labs has developed Virus Throttle technology designed specifically to slow the spread of new, unknown worms so their damage to your network is as minimal as possible. Virus Throttle technology targets virus behavior instead of the virus signature.
Viruses tend to try to connect to many machines quickly, as opposed to uninfected machines that typically make fewer connections more slowly to fewer machines. When the technology detects rapid connections to many machines, it automatically limits the number of connections the potentially infected system can make and notifies an administrator of the potential problem. The Virus Throttle technology hampers, contains, and mitigates attacks to buy you time to respond.
HP's new Virus Throttle technology is currently available in select HP networking and server products:
- ProCurve Networking Switch 5300xl comes with Virus Throttle technology built in and when used as a router can completely stop routed network traffic from infected network systems from propagating to the rest of the network. Because the ProCurve Switch 5300xl can monitor all ports on the switch for worm virus activity, virus throttling on the ProCurve Switch 5300xl provides a centralized ability at worm control.
- The ProLiant Intelligent Networking Pack with Virus Throttle technology protects the local network environment in case one of your individual ProLiant servers becomes infected with a worm virus. This can help slow the spread of a virus from an infected server to other servers on your network.
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A key strategy you can employ to help guard your network from viruses is to store the majority of the data generated by users in your data center instead of on individual computers. User data remains in the data center with the rest of your key company data; because viruses spread with file transfer, they have a harder time propagating when users don't send files to one another via email. Additionally, it is easier for IT staff to manage virus protection at a single data center rather than at every client computer in your office.
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