A New Level of Protection

State, local and federal government IT systems are under almost constant attack by a barrage of assailants -- from mischievous hackers to malevolent cyber-terrorists.

Virus, worm and Trojan attacks are significant and growing concerns for government agencies, and IT staffs are scrambling to keep up. Today's cyber-attacks are not only extremely sophisticated, but also fast and frequent.

McAfee Security offers an effective response to these mounting threats. As part of the McAfee Protection-In-Depth Strategy, our McAfee Intrusion Prevention Solutions help organizations such as yours assure the availability and security of their network infrastructure everyday. In this challenging economic environment, it is essential to have tools that can help you realize your network's full performance potential.

A New Level of Proactive Threat Protection
McAfee Security enables agencies to be proactive in real time

Today, both docile and deadly cyber-diseases propagate at incredible speeds.

With the luxury of IT reaction time now gone for good, the key to total security is proactive prevention. "It used to be you would have a little bit of time when you could fix your system, patch it and protect servers," said Chris Coyle, senior systems engineer for Network Associates. "But that time is no longer available to an IT staff."

Only a few years ago when the I Love You Virus burst unwelcome onto computers worldwide, its spread at a rate of about 3,000 desktops per hour. By comparison, the recent Slammer virus raced throughout the world several months ago with nearly incomprehensible speed, spreading worldwide in about 10 minutes, according to the Cooperative Association of Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA).

"Local governments are trying to protect local infrastructures, power systems, emergency system sand many kinds of records," said Coyle. "They can't afford to have any downtime."

Although software patches can shore up known vulnerabilities, they present their own set of management headaches, and they can't protect systems from the steady onslaught of new and sophisticated attacks.

As part of its "Protection-In-Depth Strategy," McAfee products include comprehensive content protection for collaborative computing environments. Cutting-edge McAfee Entercept and McAfee IntruShield instantly detect and actually stop harmful attacks including viruses, worms, malicious code and inappropriate content that can wreak havoc on servers and compromise corporate systems and networks.

McAfee Entercept and McAfee IntruShield go beyond the simple intrusion detection systems utilized by so many other security devices. In fact, McAfee Security solutions can stop malicious activity in real time. They deliver proactive intrusion prevention for today's beleaguered public-sector computer systems.

"McAfee Entercept and McAfee IntruShield have incredibly accurate detection capability," said Rudy Schmidt, director of IPS Sales for McAfee Security. "So we not only can take on the things that have been out there for a while, like Code Red, but we can also detect the things you haven't prepared for, block them and stop them."

McAfee Entercept safeguards Web servers, database servers and application servers with three layers of protection. McAfee IntruShield offers the same level of protection for enterprise networks, data centers and remote branch offices.

Government agencies demand multi-level protection to safeguard sensitive public data. But agencies previously needed to combine products from several vendors to meet the requirement -- raising both the initial purchase price and ongoing management costs. With McAfee Security, both solutions deliver unmatched protection against intrusion through signature and anomaly-based detection, as well as denial of service (DoS) and distributed denial of service (DdoS) detection.

The integrated design of McAfee Entercept and McAfee IntruShield simplifies security management and lowers operating expenses. "Because so many attacks today are blended attacks, we can significantly reduce an analyst's time by correlating across those engines," said Schmidt.

In addition, the McAfee Entercept zero-day attack prevention capabilities can significantly slow-- and even stop