Sygate Secure Enterprise Solution for Internal Threats

The Internal Threat

Independent analysts estimate that sixty to seventy percent of the risk to enterprise information comes from internal sources. The risk is high because internal users (including contractors) often have broad access to, and extensive knowledge of, valuable corporate information. Consequently, accidental or malicious behavior initiated from the workstation of an internal user can cause severe damage.

Current solutions include access control and intrusion detection systems, solutions that are often insufficient for a variety of reasons. As users join or leave an organization, change roles or locations, IT administrators have the increasingly difficult job of managing identities and their corresponding authorized access to data. Inaccuracy or gaps in this information can increase exposure to threats. Intrusion Detection Systems monitor and report malicious network activity, but are often unable to prevent the actual attack. Authenticated users can inadvertently receive malicious code from the web that gathers and sends out sensitive and valuable corporate information. An internal user can purposefully install malicious code that renders a network servers helpless against external attacks.

Enforcing security policy on workstations and servers solves the problem

• Stealth network resources making servers and workstations invisible to malicious programs or users,
• Prevent network access by unauthorized applications including "Trojans",
• Permit only safe network usage by authorized applications which can prevent DDOS attacks.