Network Threat Prevention Features
Proventia Desktop stops Internet threats from advancing beyond the network onto your desktops.
Spyware Prevention
Proventia Desktop prevents the installation of spyware by analysing network downloads, and blocks existing spyware from running by stopping unauthorised application communication outside the desktop.
Powerful Intrusion Prevention
Proventia Desktop's built-in intrusion prevention technology provides out-of-the-box protection against threats like worms, viruses and hacker attacks. More than 160 built-in rules are included.
Inbound Blocking
Proventia Desktop monitors all inbound traffic and blocks attacks through intelligent analysis of trusted applications. Good traffic is allowed while malicious or suspicious traffic is not.
Memory Protection
Proventia Desktop's Buffer Overflow Exploitation Prevention (BOEP), also known as memory protection, protects hosts from buffer overflow attacks against known and unknown memory buffer vulnerabilities.
Corporate Network Access Control
The Proventia Desktop Access Control platform ensures that computer systems connecting to the corporate network through a Virtual Private Network, wireless access point, or from another network segment are protected by an up-to-date ISS desktop agent.
Cisco Network Admission Control (NAC) Certified
Proventia Desktop interfaces with the Cisco Trust Agent (CTA) software to deliver compliance and configuration information about Proventia Desktop. The security posture information provided aids in determining if the system should be allowed to access the corporate network.
Reduced Attack Surface
Proventia Desktop reduces and eliminates a desktop's visibility to network attackers through a simple and configurable firewall.
Location-based Protection
Proventia Desktop can be configured to automatically enable additional security features based on location. For example, attempts to use a laptop in an unknown network, such as a wireless connection in an airport, activate additional security features to protect the laptop and your network from malicious traffic.
Application Threat Prevention Features
Proventia Desktop protects desktops from exploits at the application level.
Virus Prevention System
Proventia Desktop's Virus Prevention System (VPS) uses a patent-pending behavioral analysis method to stop known and new viruses, Trojans, worms and spyware. VPS identifies viral and unhealthy application behavior to detect and block malicious code without time-sensitive signature updates.
Signature-base Antivirus and Anti-Spyware
Proventia Desktop's antivirus and anti-spyware signature engine allows customers to scan for and remove malicious files and known spyware upon access or via on demand scan jobs.
Application Protection
Proventia Desktop's advanced application protection capabilities allow administrators to build customised lists of authorised and unauthorised applications, ensuring that your desktop environment stays protected from unauthorised use and access.
Antivirus Awareness
Proventia Desktop ensures that clients have updated antivirus software.
Virtual Patch Protection
Internet Security Systems (ISS)' virtual patch protection automatically updates and applies security policies to newly discovered vulnerabilities that could affect your desktop systems. This technology allows you to protect your desktops before an attack is 'in the wild,' avoiding emergency patch rollouts so you can apply updates when your organisation is ready.
Management Features
Manage Proventia Desktop agents with the IBM Proventia Management SiteProtector system for enterprise-level centralised desktop protection.
Centralised Management System
The SiteProtector centralised security management system allows you to control, monitor and analyse events with minimum staff and operational costs. SiteProtector scales easily from small organisations to large global enterprises, allowing administrators to control 100,000 Proventia Desktop agents from a single console.
Advanced Event Correlation and Analysis
The IBM SiteProtector Security Fusion module instantly correlates security data from multiple sources to determine whether incidents are attacks or false positives.
Automatic Updates
Automatic security updates to Proventia Desktop are delivered through the X-Press Update package which eliminates both manual updates and downtime. X-Press Updates are developed by ISS' X-Force, the most respected security research group in the industry.
Easy Integration
Proventia Desktop fits seamlessly within your existing corporate infrastructure and supports Active Directory, most e-mail and Web clients, as well as popular antivirus and Virtual Private Network (VPN) software.
Flexible Deployment
Proventia Desktop offers flexible configuration options for deployment, response and notification. Administrators can choose how much control to allow individual users, specify port and IP restrictions, and even how to report important security events.
Robust protection at a lower cost with multi-layered security architecture that blocks attacks through both the application and network threat vectors. Proventia Desktop offers the most robust and effective protection available for desktop systems.
Easy integration with existing corporate infrastructure, including interoperability with Active Directory, most e-mail and Web clients, and popular antivirus and Virtual Private Network (VPN) software.
Compliant desktop systems that are running protective software, like the desktop agent or antivirus, before local access to the corporate network or remote access through a VPN is granted. Centrally managed security updates keep users current automatically.
Processor
500 MHz or higher Pentium-compatible CPU
Memory
256 MB of RAM or better
Disk Space
75 MB free disk space
Network Connection
- 10/100 mbps or GB NIC
- TCP/IP network connection over 10/100 Ethernet LAN/WAN, cable modem, DSL router, ISDN router or dial-up modem
System must be using COMCTL32.DLL version 4.72 or newer. COMCTL32.DLL is available at Microsoft's Web site.
Operating System
- Windows 2000 Professional (SP 3-4)
- Windows XP Professional (SP 1-2)
It is highly recommended that when running an agent on an OS that supports NTFS that you install the agent on an NTFS formatted partition. FAT and FAT32 partitions do not allow for the system to be hardened properly.
Required Third Party Software
Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher to view online help.