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NETWORK SECURITY

Confidential information can reside in two states on a network. It can reside on physical storage media, such as a hard drive or memory, or it can reside in transit across the physical network wire in the form of packets. These two information states present multiple opportunities for attacks from users on your internal network, as well as those users on the Internet. We are primarily concerned with the second state, which involves network security issues. The following list introduces five common methods of attack that present opportunities to compromise the information on your network:

• Network packet sniffers
• IP spoofing
• Password attacks
• Distribution of sensitive internal information to external sources
• Man-in-the-middle attacks

When protecting your information from these attacks, your concern is preventing the theft, destruction, corruption, and introduction of information. These results can cause irreparable damage to sensitive and confidential information.

PC Internet Patrol (pcIP™) is a new Personal Firewall shifting the paradigm from traffic filtering to True Application Control™. Developed for the Windows platform, pcIP™ connects users through its shared centralized database creating a Virtual Security Network (VSN) designed to provide real time protection against information and identity theft from Personal Computers as well as against e-mail born malicious programs.

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