Desktop Protection
		Proventia Desktop offers pre-emptive protection desktops and laptops against known and unknown threats, the only effective way to preserve network uptime and avoid the negative business impact caused by Internet attacks hackers and other improper activity on the desktop. It works ahead of the threat to block attacks before they can cause disruption, employee downtime and excessive calls to the helpdesk. Proventia Desktop is a simple-to-use, all-in-one solution that delivers effective, cost-efficient and standardised security for the enterprise's most commonly used IT assets. Click links below for more information on: Application Threat Prevention Features Management Features

Proventia Desktop Features
Proventia Desktop is a single agent that combines a personal firewall, intrusion prevention, buffer overflow exploit prevention, application protection and virus prevention. It helps to ensure that desktops are protected and adhere to corporate standards.

Network Threat Prevention Features
Proventia Desktop stops Internet threats from advancing beyond the network onto the desktop.

Spyware Prevention
Proventia Desktop prevents the installation of spyware by analysing network downloads and blocks existing spyware from running by stopping unauthorised application communication outside the desktop.

Powerful Intrusion Prevention
Proventia Desktop's built-in intrusion prevention technology provides out-of-the-box protection against threats like worms, viruses and hacker attacks. More than 160 built-in rules are included.

Inbound Blocking
Proventia Desktop monitors all inbound traffic and blocks attacks through intelligent analysis of trusted applications. Good traffic is allowed while malicious or suspicious traffic is not.

Memory Protection
Proventia Desktop's Buffer Overflow Exploitation Prevention (BOEP), also known as memory protection, protects hosts from buffer overflow attacks against known and unknown memory buffer vulnerabilities.

Corporate Network Access Control
The Proventia Desktop Access Control platform ensures that computer systems connecting to the corporate network through a Virtual Private Network, wireless access point or from another network segment, are protected by an up-to-date ISS desktop agent.

Reduced Attack Surface
Proventia Desktop reduces and eliminates a desktop's visibility to network attackers through a simple and configurable firewall.

Location-based Protection
Proventia Desktop can be configured to automatically enable additional security features based on location. For example, attempts to use a laptop in an unknown network, such as a wireless connection in an airport, activate additional security features to protect the laptop and your network from malicious traffic.

Application Threat Prevention Features
Proventia Desktop protects desktops from exploits at the application level.

Virus Prevention System
Proventia Desktop's Virus Prevention System (VPS) uses a patent-pending behavioural analysis method to stop known and new viruses, Trojans, worms and spyware. Complementary to traditional, signature-based antivirus technology, VPS identifies viral and unhealthy application behaviour to detect and block malicious code without time-sensitive signature updates.

Application Protection
Proventia Desktop's advanced application protection capabilities allow administrators to build customised lists of authorised and unauthorised applications, ensuring that your desktop environment stays protected from unauthorised use and access.

Antivirus Awareness
Proventia Desktop ensures that clients have updated antivirus software.

Virtual Patch Protection
Internet Security Systems (ISS)' virtual patch protection automatically updates and applies security policies to newly discovered vulnerabilities that could affect your desktop systems. This technology allows you to protect your desktops before an attack is 'in the wild,' avoiding emergency patch rollouts so you can apply updates when your organisation is ready.

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