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ScanSafe Outbreak Intelligence Protection from Zero-Hour Threats
Current Scenario: As a managed service, ScanSafe provides complete protection from Web and IM threats before they can enter and harm corporate networks. Leveraging its position “in the cloud,” the ScanSafe Threat Center monitors the global state of Web traffic, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Combining technology as well as analysis from threat technicians, the ScanSafe Threat Center processes more than five billion Web requests each month from 20 countries around the world and provides unparalleled insight into real-time Web and IM threats and usage.
Tomorrow's Technology Today: At the heart of ScanSafe’s technology is Outbreak Intelligence the company’s proprietary heuristics technology that leverages ScanSafe's position at the Internet-level to proactively identify threats, quickly develop heuristics and test these against real data to quickly ensure accuracy and effectiveness. ScanSafe's ability to analyze threats proactively ensures that Outbreak Intelligence heuristics are created and updated 24x7 for immediate protection. Most anti-malware products rely primarily on a database of signatures to identify and stop threats. These signatures are based only on known viruses—providing no protection from unknown and emerging viruses, Relying solely on signature-based threat protection leaves businesses open to a dangerous window of vulnerability between the time a virus first appears and the time a signature is developed and deployed. Industry analysts estimate this exposure can range from four to sixteen hours to be issued and updated. Every passing minute until a signature arrives is enough time for a virus to propagate, further compromising corporate networks. Once detected, Outbreak Intelligence automatically propagates to the scanning layer where threats can be neutralized before they reach customers' networks. Outbreak Intelligence forms an integral part of ScanSafe’s multi-layered protection model that combines Outbreak Intelligence with anti-virus signature protection from multiple, leading signature engines. These engines have a comprehensive set of signatures to prevent previously identified viruses from infecting a corporate network, and using a service architecture ensures ScanSafe’s customers will receive signatures immediately. Outbreak Intelligence also provides protection against incoming and outgoing spyware threats, including identifying and blocking infected hosts as spyware applications attempt to "call home". ScanSafe is the only managed Web security service that offers such a diverse and comprehensive range of protection. ScanSafe’s multi-tier protection ensures that a corporate network remains secure before, during and after a malware attack. ScanSafe’s real-time scanning means it is able to filter Web traffic to ensure no prohibited content reaches users, allowing companies to easily control Web usage and enforce acceptable use polices. ScanSafe’s portfolio of fully managed services, all powered by Outbreak Intelligence, includes Web Virus Scanning, Web Filtering, Spyware Screening and IM Control. Web Virus Scanning Web browsing has become the favorite target of malicious code writers to compromise an enterprise’s network. Three of the top-10 security attacks over the last year came from Web threats, such as the Nimda worm and spyware. By combining proactive heuristics with leading reatl time scanning, ScanSafe’s Web Virus Scanning has the power to eliminate all known threats, and to identify and block unknown attacks before they reach the corporate network. Web Filtering ScanSafe Web Filtering is a fully managed service that puts IT staff in control of how employees use the Internet. As the amount of time spent browsing the Internet continues to rise, the problems associated with providing unmonitored and unregulated Internet access steadily increases. By layering proactive, real-time filtering with the world's most accurate categorization databases, ScanSafe can be trusted to correctly manage Internet traffic according to a company’s acceptable usage policy. Spyware Screening ScanSafe Spyware Screening is a fully managed service that works alongside Web Virus Scanning to deliver enhanced, comprehensive protection against threats that use stealth or deception. Best-of-breed protection is provided by a layer of proactive real-time scanning, and informed by the world's most accurate and comprehensive databases. Unlike the majority of anti-spyware products that scan desktops for infection, Spyware Screening eliminates threats before they reach and infect a corporate network. IM Control IM represents one the fastest growing security threats to the corporate enterprise. Lack of control and monitoring can lead to productivity losses from personal use and confidentiality breaches from information leaks. In addition IM is now subject to the same rigorous compliance regulations as email, requiring archiving and logging of all IM messages. ScanSafe IM Control is the world's first integrated Web and IM security service designed with a ‘defense-in-depth' approach. With a simple configuration change, all outbound and inbound IM traffic is scanned and managed for security, compliance and productivity threats without the need hardware and software maintenance.
Tomorrow's Technology Today: At the heart of ScanSafe’s technology is Outbreak Intelligence the company’s proprietary heuristics technology that leverages ScanSafe's position at the Internet-level to proactively identify threats, quickly develop heuristics and test these against real data to quickly ensure accuracy and effectiveness. ScanSafe's ability to analyze threats proactively ensures that Outbreak Intelligence heuristics are created and updated 24x7 for immediate protection.
Most anti-malware products rely primarily on a database of signatures to identify and stop threats. These signatures are based only on known viruses—providing no protection from unknown and emerging viruses, Relying solely on signature-based threat protection leaves businesses open to a dangerous window of vulnerability between the time a virus first appears and the time a signature is developed and deployed. Industry analysts estimate this exposure can range from four to sixteen hours to be issued and updated. Every passing minute until a signature arrives is enough time for a virus to propagate, further compromising corporate networks.
Once detected, Outbreak Intelligence automatically propagates to the scanning layer where threats can be neutralized before they reach customers' networks.
Outbreak Intelligence forms an integral part of ScanSafe’s multi-layered protection model that combines Outbreak Intelligence with anti-virus signature protection from multiple, leading signature engines. These engines have a comprehensive set of signatures to prevent previously identified viruses from infecting a corporate network, and using a service architecture ensures ScanSafe’s customers will receive signatures immediately.
Outbreak Intelligence also provides protection against incoming and outgoing spyware threats, including identifying and blocking infected hosts as spyware applications attempt to "call home".
ScanSafe is the only managed Web security service that offers such a diverse and comprehensive range of protection. ScanSafe’s multi-tier protection ensures that a corporate network remains secure before, during and after a malware attack.
ScanSafe’s real-time scanning means it is able to filter Web traffic to ensure no prohibited content reaches users, allowing companies to easily control Web usage and enforce acceptable use polices.
ScanSafe’s portfolio of fully managed services, all powered by Outbreak Intelligence, includes Web Virus Scanning, Web Filtering, Spyware Screening and IM Control.
Web Virus Scanning Web browsing has become the favorite target of malicious code writers to compromise an enterprise’s network. Three of the top-10 security attacks over the last year came from Web threats, such as the Nimda worm and spyware. By combining proactive heuristics with leading reatl time scanning, ScanSafe’s Web Virus Scanning has the power to eliminate all known threats, and to identify and block unknown attacks before they reach the corporate network.
Web Filtering ScanSafe Web Filtering is a fully managed service that puts IT staff in control of how employees use the Internet. As the amount of time spent browsing the Internet continues to rise, the problems associated with providing unmonitored and unregulated Internet access steadily increases. By layering proactive, real-time filtering with the world's most accurate categorization databases, ScanSafe can be trusted to correctly manage Internet traffic according to a company’s acceptable usage policy.
Spyware Screening ScanSafe Spyware Screening is a fully managed service that works alongside Web Virus Scanning to deliver enhanced, comprehensive protection against threats that use stealth or deception. Best-of-breed protection is provided by a layer of proactive real-time scanning, and informed by the world's most accurate and comprehensive databases. Unlike the majority of anti-spyware products that scan desktops for infection, Spyware Screening eliminates threats before they reach and infect a corporate network.
IM Control IM represents one the fastest growing security threats to the corporate enterprise. Lack of control and monitoring can lead to productivity losses from personal use and confidentiality breaches from information leaks. In addition IM is now subject to the same rigorous compliance regulations as email, requiring archiving and logging of all IM messages. ScanSafe IM Control is the world's first integrated Web and IM security service designed with a ‘defense-in-depth' approach. With a simple configuration change, all outbound and inbound IM traffic is scanned and managed for security, compliance and productivity threats without the need hardware and software maintenance.
Conclusion: ScanSafe solutions keep viruses and spyware off corporate networks and allow businesses to control and secure the use of the Web and instant messaging. As a fully managed service, ScanSafe’s solutions require no hardware, upfront capital costs or maintenance and provide unparalleled real-time threat protection.
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