Protecting Your Corporate Network: What Do You Know About the Endpoint Device?

Protecting Your Corporate Network:
What Do You Know about the Endpoint Device?
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Table of Contents
Executive Summary............................................................................................................. 3
Introduction: Unsecured Endpoints = Huge Vulnerabilities.................................................... 3
Intrusion Prevention by Any Other Name.............................................................................. 4
The Race to Create a De facto Standard for Network Access Management......................... 4®Innovative Abilities of LANDesk Trusted AccessT................................................................. 6
Preemptive Protection.......................................................................................................... 8®Proactive Reach with LANDesk Management Gateway....................................................... 8
Extending the Preemptive Perimeter.................................................................................... 8
Conclusion........................................................................................................................... 9
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Executive SummaryWith the ever-growing concerns surrounding the protection of enterprise computing assets, the typical IT operations manager or IT administrator is increasingly being tasked with managing the security within their environment. On top of having to worry about their traditional IT management stewardships, they now face an array of new challenges that include keeping endpoints secure, dealing with infected machines, enforcing compliance, preventing the proliferation of malicious code, and more.®This white paper examines how the network access control capabilities of LANDesk Trusted AccessT available within ®LANDesk Security Suite help organizations protect and secure their enterprise networks at their endpoints to reduce malicious attacks and the resulting downtime, lost productivity, and lost revenues.
Introduction: Unsecured Endpoints = Huge VulnerabilitiesWhile traditional IT security models have focused on making the network perimeter immune to malicious attacks, today's perimeter is getting more difficult to define and defend. And unlike yesterday's threats that depended on the actions of users for transmission, today's tactics infect entire networks without any user involvement. What's more, users with authorized access to computing resources pose more danger than those who must breach a perimeter firewall to get inside the network. Why is this so? Computing endpoints such as laptops, desktops, PDAs, and other mobile devices in use across the continent or the corporate campus are always in vulnerable states and susceptible to malicious infection. They may be missing critical OS or application patches or anti-virus software. Perhaps signature files are out of date or a personal firewall is missing or misconfigured. Yankee Group Research, Inc., reports that mobile computing is growing steadily, with the number of ... [download for more]