A highly covert threat, today's spyware and adware programs monitor network usage and often steal private data, e-mail addresses and more without you ever finding out. Additionally, some programs are engineered to deliberately affect your network's performance by using up bandwidth, memory or other system resources, compromising the network or crashing it altogether.

Spyware and adware can get into your network by:

• Employees sharing downloaded peer-to-peer files with hidden spyware or adware programs
• IT inadvertently installing new software with built-in spyware programs
• Users clicking on certain options in deceptive pop-up windows

Enterasys Secure Networks™ architecture provides the most effective solution for detecting, isolating and eliminating spyware, adware and other malware—well before it can gather sensitive information. The key is the embedded security found in every component of the Secure Networks infrastructure that recognizes anomalies at the point of entry and ensures the fastest response and remediation.

• Threat is inadvertently downloaded from Internet to user's PC
• As spyware and adware attempts to gather and send confidential information back to the source, Dragon® IDS/IPS identifies security breach and communicates breach to NetSight® management
• Policy defined through NetSight management prevents access to Internet by a policy change at the infected user's port
• IT is alerted of suspicious activity to respond in real time
• Quarantined end user is informed of spware/adware presence on the PC and provided with steps for self-remediation and regaining network access

• Fastest detection, location and response capability
• Most pervasive deployment of network security functionality
• Most precise security enforcement—pinpoint control
• Only open architecture in the industry—leverage what you have today with no “rip and replace”
• Greater automation for simpler operation
• Fewer products to deploy and manage
• No performance trade-off for advanced security capability
• Flexible architecture dramatically reduces solution-time required for future issues
• Best total cost of ownership in the industry