The Changing Threat Landscape - Zift Solutions

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product has the highest level of protection
and warnings.
Of the three products examined in the test
program, Trend Micro WFBS-A was also
found to be the only product that caters
specifically to the use of wireless devices.
Trend Micro’s Wi-Fi Advisor - a second
utility provided by the Transaction Protector
technology - offered warnings when the
safety of a wireless network was uncertain-
-a critical feature in reminding users to be
extra-cautious with sensitive data when
they can’t be assured of the safety of the
Wi-Fi connection they’re on.
Trend Micro WFBS-A has three more
advanced security functions: the Firewall,
an Intrusion Detection System and
the Vulnerability Assessment Scanner.
While the competitors’ firewall and IPS
technology prevented the threat attacks
against which they were tested and
provided logs to show evidence that
intrusion attempts were taking place, only
the Trend Micro solution provided an
accurate report of the scale and nature of
the attacks and broke down the attempts
into individual entries for later analysis.
Trend Micro WFBS-A allowed scans
of client machines to be initiated from the
Administration console and the resulting
reports for these scans included links for
remediation advice and any required patch.
Both these features are invaluable to resellers,
IT, or Security staff, as it allows them to
remotely ensure machines are up-to date, and
to analyse any attacks found by the IPS to help
prevent future attacks.
With the Security Dashboard, resellers, IT, or
Security staff can keep track of activities within
their network. This shows a complete listing
of events which have occurred with client
machines.
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