Cyber Security Institute

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

CA’s New Host-Based Intrusion Prevention Provides Centralized Protection Against Online Threats

At RSA Conference 2007 in San Francisco, CA announced CA Host-Based Intrusion Prevention System (CA HIPS), a new solution that combines advanced firewall, intrusion detection and intrusion prevention capabilities to defend enterprise computing assets against today’s blended threats.  By providing centrally managed proactive threat protection for PCs and servers, CA HIPS enables IT organizations to quickly and efficiently implement best-practices security policies for system endpoints across the enterprise.  CA HIPS provides proactive, host-based security to counter zero-day attacks by detecting anomalies in system behavior.  Administrators can define rules for automatically responding to these anomalies—such as blocking suspicious application activity with the rest of the network until a potential threat can be evaluated fully.

CA HIPS monitors both incoming and outgoing traffic and enables centralized management of access control policies.

“Today’s sophisticated threats require a multi-faceted defense that incorporates proactive threat detection and whitelisting, working hand-in-hand with existing antivirus and anti-spyware technologies,” said Robin Bloor, partner, Hurwitz and Associates.

CA HIPS uniquely facilitates the definition and implementation of security policies by allowing administrators to create policies based on user behavior and existing examples.  This “learn-by-example” approach eliminates much of the time and effort typically required for administrators to define policies for specific roles, applications and/or resources.

“IT organizations are already dealing with twice as many threats as they did even just a year ago—and those threats are getting more complex and sophisticated all the time,” said Sam Curry, vice president, CA security management. 

“CA HIPS enables us to provide our customers with an additional layer of security that complements CA’s anti-spyware and antivirus solutions which have already proven to be so effective for them,” said Jimmy Barter, vice president of business development, Net-Tek Networking Solutions, a total solutions provider who resells CA’s threat management products.

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