Defining the Rules for Preemptive Host Protection

Protecting desktop and server, or host systems has rapidly become a high priority for organizations that want to ensure uptime and the availability of day-to-day business applications. Today's hybrid threats are growing faster, more complex and more destructive. Only Internet Security Systems (ISS) provides a multi-layered security solution that can provide the preemptive protection needed to stop these threats before they impact business operations.

Firewall and vulnerability-centric intrusion prevention provide protection for attacks that originate at the network level, while behavior-based, application-level protection is needed to stop buffer overflow exploits and malicious programs spread via email, Web browsing and other file-centric threat vectors. The market's inability to identify and distinguish between these two primary threat vectors has resulted in confusion over which technologies can most effectively prevent a particular attack on the host.

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