Worms and viruses are growing stronger than ever before. In 2004 the MyDoom worm alone took less than 24 hours to infect one out of every 12 e-mails worldwide. And today some viruses can propagate and envelope an entire enterprise in less than nine seconds. The impact to your business and productivity can be devastating.

The most common ways for these threats to infiltrate your network are:

• An infected laptop from a guest or outside user connects to your network
• Internal users inadvertently introduce the virus while surfing the web
• Employees open infected e-mail attachments and forward to other users

Enterasys Secure Networks™ architecture provides the most effective solution for detecting, isolating and eliminating a virus—well before it can spread. 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 introduced to the network from an infected laptop
• Dragon® IDS/IPS sensors immediately recognize suspicious traffic and trigger alert to NetSight® management
• NetSight management initiates automated, measured response to security event by locating source of threat and enforcing policy on Matrix™ and SecureStack™ switches at the network edge
• Policy on Matrix and SecureStack switches can automatically shut off an infected user's port or quarantine the user protecting the network from the security threat
• End user is automatically notified of the worm/virus infection 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