NFR Security offers AOL instant messaging protection
13 October 2004
Intrusion defence and management firm NFR Security Inc has announced the availability of a new network security protection package for AOL Instant Messaging (AIM).
The new software further enhances the company's Sentivist product, is compatible with Sentivist's inline intrusion prevention solution and meets FDIC guidelines for identifying and protecting against risks associated with instant messaging.
With advanced signature, protocol analysis, and logging capabilities, this new package enables enterprises to identify threats, prevent attacks and secure their networks against the rise of security vulnerabilities that accompany instant message applications.
"Applications such as Instant Messaging and VoIP are evolving into the latest enterprise communication tools for customers. Each new tool brings new flavours of security vulnerabilities and threats which the enterprise must protect," said Andre Yee, president and CEO of NFR Security. "NFR Security is securing these emerging applications by adding a critical layer of defence that analyses traffic, alerts administrators of suspicious activity and prevents attacks on the fly."
NFR Security's Sentivist AIM package provides customers with a high level of traffic analysis and logging capabilities to prevent attacks against the Instant Messaging application as well as those attacks using IM as the vehicle to launch an attack (much like email is used to spread a worm).
The software's logging capabilities are highly customisable, allowing IT managers to log file transactions, chat conversations or both. NFR Security's Sentivist intrusion prevention solution works with the AIM package to offer a unique patent-pending feature called Confidence Indexing, which allows intrusion prevention decisions to be configured by the user based on the risk profile of the organisation.
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