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McAfee Proactive Threat Protection: help close your Window of Vulnerability

Overview Arising periodically to wreak havoc all over the world, high profile, massively destructive threats such as SQLSlammer, Bugbear, Klez, Nimda and CodeRed underscore enterprises need for to close the Window of Vulnerability the period of time when an enterprise is susceptible to an attack and may sustain significant damage. The Window of Vulnerability is created by a combination of these threats sophistication, their speed of propagation, and the proliferation of computing devices, it opens when the threat is created, and does not close until all systems on the network are protected from that threat.

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Publisher	NAI - Network Associates	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	February 2003	Downloads	7
Format	White Papers
Topics	Anti-Virus

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