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Email & Internet Security, Performance & Policy Management Products - Latest news - Aug 2001

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IN THIS ISSUE  
Entercept intrusion prevention solution combats Code Red and other threats
Version 4.2.5 of Mailsweeper now available
Websweeper - manages threats  from Webmail and downloads
SelectAccess 3.0 improves access control to corporate networks
 Articles from the Press supporting the need for email and internet policies
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Welcome to the August edition of Re-Soft International's Messaging Newsbrief summarizing this month's news about tools that address security, policy management, usage monitoring and performance issues surrounding electronic messaging & internet systems. These tools monitor and report on your Exchange, Domino & SMTP E-Mail systems, as well as your Internet Access Systems.
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ENTERCEPT - INTRUSION PREVENTION SOLUTION COMBATS CODE RED AND OTHER THREATS

"Entercept is an intrusion prevention solution, as opposed to intrusion detection, which until now has been the only available option. It safeguards not only your system resources but the applications that are running on it too." - SC Magazine (Pick Of 2000)

Recent studies show that network security intrusions are rising at alarming rates, from the simple misuse of company resources to Web site vandalism, espionage and theft. 

Entercept provides the vital defense beyond the firewall
Industry experts agree that firewalls no longer provide sufficient protection from intrusions. Today's business environment requires access through your firewall (Web, Mail, DNS, FTP, etc)—opening holes that hackers can easily exploit. Unlike traditional IDS products, Entercept identifies and stops known and unknown intrusions that exploit these holes—before malicious code is executed. Entercept also provides an additional level of security with shielding protection for your Web sites and applications. This approach to e-business security protects companies at all the various levels that are critical to e-business success.

Entercept Web Server Edition provides protection for critical Web servers and their applications. This solution stops both known and unknown attacks and creates a secure environment for your Web servers and applications. It is the ultimate protection for Web servers.

Entercept 2.0 provides protection for all other critical e-business servers. Using an extensive intrusion dictionary and an exclusive behavior model, Entercept can identify and stop generic and specific intrusions. It gives companies unparalleled protection at the operating system level.

Entercept protects from Code Red
The Code Red worm exploited a known vulnerability (buffer overflow) in the Microsoft IIS servers. The worms are a self-propagating code that installs a back door on infected machines leaving them vulnerable for future attacks. The damage from Code Red I and II has risen to over $2 Billion including the cost of recovery from a loss of productivity, repair work, and interrupted operations.  

SPECIAL OFFER:  Learn Best practices for Protection by reading the Entercept white paper, “Server Protection for Today and Tomorrow”. 

This paper details:

·  The problems facing security professionals

·  solutions for prevention

In addition you will receive the security brief, "Code Red: Blowing the Lid Off Pandora's Box"—this paper that analyzes the worm, discusses possible future variants and explains how Entercept protects against Code Red and descendants.

To receive these items, send email to entegrity@re-soft.com with your contact details

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SELECTACCESS V3.0 IMPROVES ACCESS CONTROL TO CORPORATE NETWORKS

The latest release of the SelectAccess next-generation access and authorization solution, SelectAccess 3.0 provides significant enhancements to its personalization, security and audit control features, SelectAccess 3.0 makes it easier than ever for businesses to provide secure, role-based user authorization. These new features enable more business processes and transactions to be securely and cost-effectively conducted online.

Administrators can now set policies and user role definitions that will instantly change user access when specific role criteria are met, eliminating the need to manually update policies. By using SelectAccess, administrators can supply areas of the Web environment with information about the user, enabling organizations to create personalized content for specific users or groups. This feature enhances loyalty programs and other behavior-based marketing initiatives by ensuring that the right content is available to the right users. In addition, SelectAccess 3.0 provides even tighter security features, including the distinctive ability to manage and track changes to policies with audit logs with digital signatures.

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WEBSWEEPER MANAGES THREATS FROM WEBMAIL AND DOWNLOADS

Many organizations have implemented email filtering such as Mailsweeper to prevent threats entering their networks via SMTP email.  Consider the latest SirCam virus. Most email based anti-virus and filtering products responded very quickly to prevent this threat. But what happens when the user accesses Hotmail or Yahoo mail through their browser and downloads a threat through that mechanism. Traditional email filtering tools will not see the email. URL blocking tools cannot help as they can only block the whole site.

WEBsweeper version 4 is part of the MIMEsweeper family of products.  It enables customers to implement Content Security policies on Web, HTTP and passive FTP transfers. Acting as a bi-directional tool, WEBsweeper security checks are applied to both downloads from and uploads to the Web.

Network Integrity

  • Identification and cleaning or blocking of viruses in Web transfers by integrating with a range of 3rd party AV tools and by intelligent analysis based on filename
  • Blocking of executables, Java/VBscript and ActiveX
  • Protection against network congestion by managing Web activity

Business Integrity

  • Web user authentication to protect against unauthorized users accessing the Web
  • Protection against loss of sensitive material through Web-based e-mail systems e.g. Hotmail accounts and bulletin boards
  • Protection against loss of confidential information from cookies
  • or hidden mailtos
  • Blocking of content from undesirable sites based on intelligent key word analysis, PICs rating and URL
  • Filtering of undesirable file types
  • Auditing and reporting of usage with built-in graphical tools

Content Management

  • notification to users of progress of pages being downloaded (Browser Comforting)
  • blocking or delivery of web-data based on validation
  • customer-definable auditing and reporting

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 VERSION 4.2.5 OF MAILSWEEPER SMTP NOW AVAILABLE

Mailsweeper 4.2.5 now adds the following features:

Attachment Stripper scenario

The new Attachment Stripper scenario enables MAILsweeper to remove attachments from an e-mail message based on the type and size of the attachment. The scenario can be optionally configured with a text annotation advising if an attachment has been removed.

Content Scanner scenario

The new Content Scanner scenario enables MAILsweeper to be connected to third-party scanning software, such as an anti-virus tool, based on the Component Object Model (COM) interface to scan data in the body of an e-mail message. The scenario can be configured to clean infected e-mail messages.

You can connect MAILsweeper to a number of supported anti-virus tools using the following scenario types:

  • this new Content Scanner scenario
  • the Virus Manager scenario
  • a scenario provided by a third-party anti-virus tool

LDAP Address lists

LDAP address list functionality has been improved to ensure both anonymous and authenticated access work on a variety of LDAP servers, such as Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Active Directory, and Netscape Directory Server. This enables you to take full advantage of the benefits of using LDAP address lists based on user details stored in LDAP directories.

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ARTICLES FROM THE PRESS ON EMAIL AND INTERNET POLICIES SUPPORTS THE NEED FOR FILTERING TOOLS

Issues surrounding policies for email and internet usage are becoming more common every day, giving mainstream legitimacy to this marketplace. Here are some examples:

You Be The Judge: A South Carolina law is forcing IT workers to join the fight against child pornography, but some wonder if that's fair
http://www.informationweek.com/thisweek/story/IWK20010803S0014

Persistent viruses sound industry alarm
http://iwsun4.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/08/13/010813hnsecurity.xml

New Directions in Intrusion Detection
http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/august01/cover.shtml

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