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Breaking News -
Security:
Apreo Announces Workstation
PolicyShield
Apreo Inc, a leading provider of file-filtering solutions for employee
workstations and corporate servers, announced the immediate availability of
Workstation PolicyShield, an enterprise solution to manage and enforce
appropriate use of files and applications. Workstation PolicyShield is the
first and only product of its kind with WriteWatch protection, which detects
spyware, or any other unapproved file, at the exact moment it is introduced to
the system –- as it is being written to the network. Unlike tools that find
files after network entry, WriteWatch detects them beforehand, in real time,
to stop their introduction and installation. Workstation PolicyShield
addresses games, instant messaging, P2P programs, music, movies, spyware and
user-defined files. The product supports directory services such as Microsoft
ActiveDirectory and Novell NDS so it can easily be applied across an entire
enterprise or portion of it.
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"Workstation PolicyShield adds a 'break-through' level of management and
protection to our appropriate-use enforcement," said Carlos Maia, system
administrator for Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP) of
Portugal. "Now, with WriteWatch, we can keep unapproved files from getting on
the network, which eliminates the potential for misuse and security threats
from rogue programs."
It also ensures that workstations are available and free from unapproved
files
that are problematic for students who need to do work.
"The solution that can detect unapproved files and applications before they
enter the network will close an important gap in the protection against the
'blended threat' from viruses, worms, Trojan horses and other malicious code,"
commented Phebe Waterfield, Security Solutions and Services analyst for Yankee
Group. "Such real-time solutions that streamline easily with other security
measures and with enterprise appropriate-use policies will succeed."
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