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Build a better defence against the sophisticated attacks that your network faces every day.
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You only have to pick up a paper or hear the daily business news to know that viruses and hackers are a real threat to business networks of all sizes. The question is no longer "Is there a threat to my business?" but instead, "What should I do about it?"
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Firewalls and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are two key tools you can use to protect your network. Together they combat the ever-growing range of viruses and would-be hackers who want nothing more than to disrupt or damage your network. The HP ProLiant DL320 Firewall/VPN/Cache Server [HP USA | English] is an affordable, integrated, easy-to-use, and manageable hardware security and caching solution that you can quickly deploy to help protect key business applications, such as Microsoft® Exchange Server, Microsoft® Outlook Web Access, Internet Information Services, and SharePoint® Portal Server.
HP is the first major vendor to offer a product that uses Microsoft's latest Internet Security and Acceleration Server, ISA 2004. This server software integrates neatly with Microsoft Windows® Active Directory® services so you can easily apply group- and user-level policy and authentication across a broad range of scenarios, including firewall policy, VPN authentication, and outbound web proxy and access control.
This solution features a PC-quarantine component for systems that do not have the latest security patches applied. By quarantining at-risk PCs, the firm can better defend the other PCs on its network. The solution is tightly integrated with Active Directory, providing seamless and secure VPN authentication.
To make it easier for your ProLiant servers to handle Secure Socket Layer (SSL) connections on secure Web application servers, HP offers the AXL600L SSL [HP USA | English] and AXL300 [HP USA | English] accelerator cards. When you add these cards to your ProLiant servers, you can vastly improve the number of SSL connections your servers can handle by offloading the SSL encryption and decryption onto a dedicated card.
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HP ProCurve Networking Access control solution provides centralised command and control of networks by checking appropriate access only at the network edge where external users connect. These solutions are cost-effective, easy-to-manage and do not compromise network functionality.
Through HP ProCurve Networking Access control solution you retain central control of LANs through an IT command structure, allowing you to:
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Establish preset rules for end users |
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Control user access at the edge of the network LAN |
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Build a sustainable audit trail so you can track and monitor network activity |
Because you delegate access, authentication, and tracking to the point where traffic enters and leaves the network, decisions can be made immediately rather than deferring them to the core. HP ProCurve Access Control Security provides a computing environment that's more secure yet easy-to-use, because every time end users login, their profiles and access rights are recognised. |
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By installing the Symantec™ Small Business Security software on your HP ProLiant servers you help to provide comprehensive protection for your IT system. This keeps your valuable business data safe from hackers, viruses, trojan horses and blended threats such as Blaster and Sasser. Symantec’s all-in-one security solution significantly minimises the risks of the internet, so you can profit from the benefits of the world wide web to help make your business more flexible, more competitive and more successful.
Symantec™ Small Business Security eliminates recognised viruses within a company’s network and blocks identified spam at the email server before it reaches individual PCs. It reduces the risk of malicious attacks by filtering out unwanted email messages and unsafe attachments. Through Live Update, you automatically get the latest content updates that include virus definitions and firewall signatures.
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In a dynamic Internet environment where new attacks occur daily, HP Firewall/VPN Server – Check Point Edition provides advanced capabilities to help small to midsize businesses defend their networks. This solution includes a pre-installed version of Check Point’s SmartDefense technology to actively defend an organisation from known and unknown network and application attacks.
The HP Firewall/VPN Server incorporates advanced VPN technology. This technology allows authorised users to log onto a network over the Internet and carry out secure communications. Your employees and clients can be comforted in knowing they have a solid solution that will help shield their words from online spies.
HP backs this solution with a year of free phone support from some of the most experienced security engineers in the business. For safer network security, this solution classifies attacks and rapidly detects, prevents and responds to potential network intrusions by examining each data packet that tries to enter a network.
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Antivirus software is designed to look for virus signatures and trap infiltrators before they can spread through your network. However, when a new worm virus is first released and its signature is unknown, it can potentially run rampant on your company's network. The virus attacks at machine speed and there's simply no way for humans to keep up.
HP Labs has developed Virus Throttling technology specifically to slow the spread of new, unknown worms so their damage to your network is as minimal as possible. Virus Throttling technology targets virus behaviour instead of the virus signature.
Viruses tend to try to connect to many machines quickly, as opposed to uninfected machines that typically make fewer connections more slowly to fewer machines. When the technology detects rapid connections to many machines, it automatically limits the number of connections the potentially infected system can make and notifies an administrator of the potential problem. The Virus Throttling technology hampers, contains and mitigates attacks to buy you time to respond.
| HP's new Virus Throttling technology is currently available in select HP networking and server products: |
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The ProCurve Networking Switch 5300xl comes with Virus Throttling technology built in and, when used as a router, can completely stop routed network traffic from infected network systems from propagating to the rest of the network. Because the ProCurve Switch 5300xl can monitor all ports on the switch for worm virus activity, its Virus Throttling capability provides centralised worm control. |
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The ProLiant Intelligent Networking Pack [HP USA | English] with Virus Throttling technology protects the local network environment in case one of your individual HP ProLiant servers becomes infected with a worm virus. This can help slow the spread of a virus from an infected server to other servers on your network. |
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A key strategy you can employ to help guard your network from viruses is to store the majority of the data generated by users in your data centre instead of on individual computers. User data remains in the data centre with the rest of your key company data. Because viruses spread with file transfer, they have a harder time propagating when users don't send files to one another via email. Additionally, it is easier for IT staff to manage virus protection at a single data centre rather than at every client computer in your office.
HP thin clients can be key components in this strategy because they don't have hard drives, so you are guaranteed that all data resides in the data centre. Learn more about this approach to data security in this Thin Client Vulnerability Analysis PDF.
Plus, because viruses and intruders can also find their way into your network via the unattended thin clients at your data centre, HP thin clients allow you to lock down peripheral ports so they won't communicate with outside peripherals, such as USB drives, that can harbour viruses or be a back door opening for data theft.
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The HP ProCurve Secure Router 7000dl series offers small and medium-sized businesses a unique combination of affordable high-performance routing – including integrated security features (stateful firewall with cyber defence engine, NAT, ACL), convergence functions (QoS, Diffserv), simplicity (user-friendly web interface and wizards) and reliability – with a choice of WAN connections (ADSL2+, E1, G703, Serial X.21/V35, ISDN and analogue modem backup).
To support an increasingly mobile workforce, the HP ProCurve Secure Router 7000dl series provides optional IPSec VPN termination and client to allow remote users to connect to their corporate office over the Internet.
Designed to support up to four E1 (8 Mbps) connections at wire speed with full services enabled, the HP ProCurve Secure Router 7102dl provides small-sized branch offices with a safe and efficient multi-services WAN connection for 10 to 100 users interconnecting up to 500 sites.
Designed to support up to eight E1 (16 Mbps) connections at wire speed with full services enabled and an optional redundant power-supply connection, the HP ProCurve Secure Router 7203dl provides medium-sized branch offices with a safe and efficient multi-services WAN connection for 100 to 500 users interconnecting up to 1000 sites.
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