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New Threats, New Solutions: Enterprise Endpoint Security

Overview The costs of network incursions are increasing rapidly, as are the number of hackers and the sophistication of their methods. The potential damage to brand reputation, customer relationships, and capacity to do business, may dwarf conventional outage and repair issues. The traditional defensive perimeter has been shattered by legions of unsecured remote and mobile users logging in via Internet connections. The new paradigm for network security places a perimeter around each endpoint, via distributed firewalls.

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Publisher	Check Point Software Technologies,Zone Labs	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	June 2004	Downloads	35
Format	White Papers
Topics	Firewalls, Security Management, Anti-Hacking

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