Friday, May 25, 2007

The Winning Security Model

It’s 2007, and malware is technically more sophisticated than ever before. Many of us have had first-hand encounters with spyware, viruses, worms and other malicious programs and sensibly made the decision to take appropriate measures to protect ourselves. Malware is so widespread now that even those lucky few who have not had an infection should seriously consider implementing Internet security measures. You need something reliable that encompasses as many risk areas as possible and will keep you safe online without getting in your way.

But where should you focus your search for that solution - antivirus, firewall, security suite or something else? That’s our main focus in this article - how to select the best combination of tools to address today’s threats. It’s designed to help you make an educated choice by showing you, through short video demonstrations and simple descriptions, how today’s malware infections work and why this should guide your decision-making process.

Read more at Agnitum's web-site, watch a video ("Outpost Security Suite versus daily Internet threats") with English, French or German comments, and don't hesitate to comment in this blow below.

Igor Pankov

Product Marketing Manager
Agnitum Ltd.

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6 Comments:

Blogger David Fernández said...

Very nice and funny demonstration. I think the main risks come from running the computer with administrator privileges all the time and not reading what you are answering.

I also wonder why is the windows firewall not blocking these applications opening ports for listening connections. Was it enabled?

In the second video I think it would have been better to make safe options to be selected by default at Outpost, instead of thinking the user will clearly see that the good option is the one not selected by default.

5/25/2007 08:19:00 PM  
Blogger Agnitum BLOG said...

Thank you for the comment, David!

1) Yeah, I agree, the risks lie in running Windows with Admin privileges. However, most of the users do exactly that. To be honest, XP with limited rights is less manageable and flexible. Additionally, by default, Windows registers users as Administrators.

2) Windows firewall is turned off for the purpose of this demo. It’s a proven fact that the embedded firewall doesn’t monitor outgoing connections, not does it supervise how programs interact and indirectly access the network using a trusted application.

3) What you suggest concerns program design issues and, yes, we’re considering different options of how to make it more “correctly advising” :)

Igor Pankov
Product Marketing Manager

5/28/2007 12:34:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Is the Vista version of Outpost Pro based on the Windows Filtering Platform (WFP) like the today debuted Vista version of ZoneAlarm?

6/14/2007 01:19:00 PM  
Blogger Agnitum BLOG said...

No, we use our proprietary technology for Vista Outpost firewall. Probably part of the WFP will be used to support non-critical capabilities.
Igor Pankov
Product Marketing Manager,
Agnitum

6/18/2007 06:46:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi all,

Little error link is here.

"Voir la video" french
http://www.agnitum.fr/products/security-suite/video/hostrotection_demo.php

host*P*rotection

Merci pour ses videos ;)

BeClaude

6/29/2007 10:15:00 PM  
Blogger Agnitum BLOG said...

Merci! Corrected:

http://www.agnitum.fr/products/security-suite/video/hostprotection_demo.php.

7/02/2007 10:02:00 AM  

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