Products
A key component to a complete solution is often implementing a hardware or software product as a layer of the defense-in-depth security strategy. Choosing the right product for your security needs is vital to the success of your security plan.
Through a careful and detailed selection process, FishNet Security has chosen a number of products that will fill a range of solution areas. These categories and the included products are listed in this section.
Application Gateways provide access control between clients and servers at the applicaiton layer. This granular level of control can provide additional security and benefit for the applications it is designed to protect. Solutions include SMTP gateways with spam prevention and web applicaiton gateways to protect critical web resources.
The process of verifying the identity of an individual or organization. Authentication enables someone to verify that individuals and organizations are who they say they are. Authentication allows the recipient in an electronic transaction to be confident of both the identity of the sender and the integrity of the message.
Content Management solutions include anti-virus, SPAM filtering and URL filtering.
Centrally managed software deployed on corporate assets to protect them from malicious content. Corporate assets most typically are PCs and laptops, but can include most network based equipment, PDAs, Smartphones, Pocket PCs, etc. Products in this category typically include Host Intrusion Prevention Software (HIPS), Anti-virus, Anti-spyware, and can go as far as authenticating users to the network (NAC).
Firewall and Virtual Private Networks provide access and protect assests from external threats. These business-class devices can help protect networks and subnets and now include a host of other features.
An Intrusion-Detection System (IDS) is a tool used to detect attempted attacks or intrusions by crackers or automated attack tools, by identifying security breaches such as incoming shellcode, viruses, malware or trojan horses transmitted via computer system or network. Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) actively block the same attacks and intrusion attempts based on a user-defined policy.
Secure Socket Layer / Virtual Private Network description.
Wireless networking brings new freedom and options to the enterprise network. It also brings new security challenges that must be overcome. The products in this category can be a key component to the overall wireless security solution.