IPS: essential protection for your client workstations

Viruses, spyware, Trojans, malicious codes of all kinds ... Their number continues to grow, the Internet being their main vector of propagation. The Google search engine alone would account for several million infected web pages. Nothing surprising when the sale of kits allowing anyone to develop and launch their own attack proliferates. Becoming a cybercriminal is now within everyone's reach…


Workstation security has for a long time been limited to the use of an antivirus and a firewall. But today, this level of protection is far from sufficient to effectively secure the workstation and the data it contains. Based on signature databases, antivirus systems do not evolve at the same rate as the creation of new malicious programs. Hackers adapt and use variants of viruses that go beyond these traditional protections. Increasingly complex Internet browsers and office software are subject to exploitable security vulnerabilities. Computer threats are everywhere.

In the event of successful attacks, the harmful effects on the company are multiple: lower productivity, lower turnover, loss of credibility, affected image ... Not to mention the fact that the time spent eradicating this malware has a cost .

Only intrusion detection and prevention systems (Host-based Intrusion Prevention System or H-IPS) can effectively protect client workstations from unknown threats, targeted attacks or zero-day attacks. Unlike the antivirus, the performance of the HIPS is not based on signature databases but on an intelligent detection mechanism. It will thus detect any program with abnormal behavior on the workstation and block it instantly, even before it runs. Your computers and the critical data they contain are secure, financial losses and potential damage to the reputation of your business are limited.

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