Outpost Network Security proactively protects small and medium-sized businesses from inbound and outbound threats, safeguarding the network and keeping workstations healthy. Outpost Network Security proactively protects small and medium-sized businesses from inbound and outbound threats, safeguarding the network and keeping workstations healthy. With its award-winning firewall and powerful anti-spyware, Outpost provides easy-to-use, affordable, and reliable protection for company data. Plus, the centralized management and automatically-deployed configurations deliver greater protection in less time.
Small businesses don't have the luxury of dedicated IT security staff, but they have just as strong a need for rock-solid protection against the ever-growing threat of Internet-borne attacks from hackers, spyware, and who knows what else. A single attack on a Windows vulnerability before you've had time to patch the operating system can wipe out desktops, leading to financial losses and severely reduced productivity. Threats such as spyware, worms, Trojan horses, hacker exploits and other malicious software can impact companies with anything from bad PR to the loss of critical data.
Small businesses may underestimate the need for protection, believing that their company is too small or insignificant to be a target. Unfortunately, the automated tools and techniques that hackers employ to scan for vulnerable computers mean that no company, whatever its size, is immune.
Endpoint PCs accessing the Internet or communicating over the local network initiate a two-way transmission – information can either leave or enter the computer. Without the right data security management tools, there's no control over just what is being transmitted back and forth – or by whom.
And then there are the mobile PCs taken on business trips - remote connections open up the computer (and the network, when the mobile PC returns to home base) to all manner of unwanted cyber-visitors.
The Solution? Outpost Network Security
Outpost Network Security delivers complete protection for all endpoint PCs, automatically deploying and configuring the client firewall across the network to selected workstations. The firewall starts protecting the clients as soon as it is installed by monitoring all data transmissions and applying specific rules for each type of communication.
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Total Spyware Defense - Always up-to-date, automated spyware protection prevents infection and keeps clients humming along. The anti-spyware module provides active spyware monitoring and an on-demand scanner, and confidential data can be locked down to prevent it being exported from any client PC either accidentally or deliberately.
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Secure Connectivity - Multi-level traffic filtering safeguards your network against unnecessary or malicious connections. By rendering end-user machines invisible on the Internet, hackers cannot locate vulnerable desktops. The Attack Detection module prevents known and unknown attacks on protected workstations, optionally alerting the client. Administrator-assigned application rules govern the client Internet access policy, which can be easily changed on an as-required basis.
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Application Integrity - Embedded code control mechanisms stop malicious applications and components from being silently activated under the guise of a trusted program, thus protecting clients from stealthy 'code injection' and spoofing techniques. The Active Web Content module prevents drive-by infections by blocking the installation and/or activation of malicious self-initiating objects. The Attachment Quarantine prevents suspicious email attachments from activating, protecting the network against embedded viruses and worms.
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Privacy Shield - The optional privacy enhancement features cloak end users' Internet history, which can protect their computers from certain risks; however, if you wish to track employees' online activities, this function can be disabled.
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Productivity and Performance Enhancement - The Ads module blocks banner ads from websites and HTML emails, significantly increasing the speed with which web content can be displayed (as well as removing the temptation to click on those ads). Additionally, the Content module allows administrators to customize blocking of web pages displaying unwanted content.
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Low-overhead Management - Outpost Network Security's centralized deployment, management and updating provide trouble-free, automated protection.
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Simple Deployment - Client protection can be rolled out from a single administrator console to all or selected workstations. ONS does not need to be installed on a server or domain controller – any dedicated workstation meeting the system requirements can host the Command Center module. Windows Group Policy can be used for automatic client firewall installation in Windows 2000 or later domains.
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Centralized Administration - The Agnitum Command Center enables centralized control over individual workstation protection from one location. All management, troubleshooting, and monitoring tasks are performed from this single location, saving the time and effortof visiting individual firewall installations to perform the same operation multiple times.
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Fast Updates - The Agnitum Update Service provides scheduled single download, multiple-install client updates, reducing the performance impact on the network by downloading one update and installing it to all clients simultaneously.
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Ease of Use - Outpost Network Security provides a familiar user interface, and the Command Center is implemented as an MMC snap-in. The client firewall settings can inherit those of previous Outpost Firewall Pro installations, making the process of configuration easy and fast.
System Requirements
- Minimum hardware specifications: Central Processor: x-86 compatible processor, 450 Mhz or above Memory: server-side: 256 Mb; client-side: 128 Mb Free Disk Space: 50 Mb
- Operating system: Server-side: Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2000, Windows NT Client-side: Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows 98
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