Corporate clients have been looking for ways to reduce the amount of time system administrators need to patch computers and respond to new viruses and worms. Standalone network-protection products, such as intrusion-detection systems and firewalls...
However, the problem now is that with detection it's all very well detecting something but, with the speed of attack being talked about with these Warhol worms, the damage is done "before you've even got out of bed an pulled your pants on...
Digitally cordoning off networks has proved to be an effective way to prevent some attacks, such as worms, from spreading. Such a product would bring together many functions, such as virus protection, intrusion detection, virtual private networking...
As worms and viruses such as SoBig, MSBlast and MyDoom continue to propagate through millions of networks throughout the world, the need for technology to keep those elements off networks has increasingly become important.
Although several computer systems failed - in particular, a server and backup that ran software for keeping track of the status of a major power network - the Security Working Group leg of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)'s US...
Partha Bhattacharya, CTO of Protego, was architect and technical lead for several of Cisco's security products, including Cisco's firewalls, IP routers, virtual private network gear and intrusion detection devices.