tailieunhanh - Network Security: The Benefits and Pitfalls of Contemporary Network Security Technologies

There may be instances where additional direct regulation of an industry that is already highly regulated (nuclear power, electricity, chemical plants, water treatment) may be warranted. Congress should consider carefully targeted directives for limited regulation of particular critical infrastructures to advance the protection of cybersecurity at these facilities using existing regulators. Any additional regulation should consider the burden on the private sector by requiring agencies to conduct a thorough cost/benefit analysis. . | Technology Evaluation and Comparison Report February 2003 Network Security The Benefits and Pitfalls of Contemporary Network Security Technologies Butler Group ANALYSIS WITHOUT COMPROMISE Sophos Plc Sophos Anti-Virus MailMonitor Enterprise Manager Summary Sophos Plc provides Anti-Virus AV solutions for businesses and this Technology Audit covers three specific products Sophos Anti-Virus MailMonitor and Enterprise Manager. Sophos Anti-Virus and MailMonitor are stand-alone products that can be deployed without other Sophos products suiting customers looking for a multi-vendor approach to IT security. Enterprise Manager can be used to make the management of either or both of these products more simple and is now bundled with Sophos Anti-Virus and MailMonitor. Sophos Anti-Virus provides protection for the enterprise on desktop and server machines. Updates can be received automatically up to 24 times per day to ensure that maximum protection against virus infection can be achieved. These updates are propagated to all machines protected with Sophos Anti-Virus. MailMonitor provides protection against e-mail-borne viruses to ensure that incoming and outgoing mail is not carrying a recognised computer virus. Again as with Sophos Anti-Virus updates are provided automatically. Enterprise Manager is used to pull down virus updates from the Sophos Databank and push them into one or more Central Installation Libraries from where protected machines can download the latest AV protection. This enables less human intervention than manually retrieving the latest updates and allows organisations the opportunity to be as up-to-date as possible in their fight against virus infection. Sophos provides 24x7 support as standard included in the annual licence fee and this is a feature that Butler Group believes differentiates Sophos from its competitors. Certainly with AV protection time is of the essence and the ability to contact Sophos front-line technical support the