Proactive network security systems to protect against hackers

Abstract

A proactive network security system to protect against hackers for the proactive automated defense against hackers by automatically finding, reporting, communicating with countermeasures about and removing the common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) that they exploit.

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RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Application No. 60 / 489,982, filed Jul. 25, 2003, the specification of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.BACKGROUND [0002] For years, network administrators have been plagued by the issue of unauthorized users (hackers) who gain entry to the network by probing for weaknesses or misrepresenting their intentions when asking to use certain network services, such as asking for a network user to read an email message. As such, it can be appreciated that anti hacker security system have been in use for years. Typically, anti hacker security systems are comprised of information security (INFOSEC) appliances that protect computers and computer-based networks against attacks from hackers. These appliances are typically sold as point-solutions and countermeasures ranging from Firewalls (FW), virtual private networks (VPNS) AntiVirus Servers (AVS), Anti Distributed Denial of Service (Anti-DD...

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Benefits of technology

The system effectively prevents hacker attacks by automatically detecting and remediating vulnerabilities, providing proactive security, easy management, and scalability, reducing the risk of attacks and improving network infrastructure security.

Problems solved by technology

For years, network administrators have been plagued by the issue of unauthorized users (hackers) who gain entry to the network by probing for weaknesses or misrepresenting their intentions when asking to use certain network services, such as asking for a network user to read an email message.

The main problem with conventional anti hacker security system are they are not designed to stop hackers, instead they are countermeasures that react to threats.

Thus, today's security systems still leave the network vulnerable to attack, although they are capable of addressing certain attacks once the attack is identified.

Another problem with conventional anti hacker security systems is that they are typically built as proprietary systems, resulting in long design, development and release cycles.

This of course can be problematic as hackers release new attacks quite frequently, and because of the Internet, these many of today's attacks spread with breathtaking speed from one network to another.

Unfortunately, most of today's INFOSEC solutions are hard to upgrade and manage.

In fact, many INFOSEC systems today are “hard wired” with one or more network adapter interface for a 10 megabits per second network and if the network performance requirements move to 100 megabits per second or a gigabit per second, these INFOSEC appliances become bottlenecks to network performance and therefore detract from user productivity.

Still another problem with conventional anti hacker security system are that each INFOSEC appliance has a completely different and unique administrative interface.

After deploying more than a few of these appliances, it becomes extremely difficult for System Administrators (SYSADMINs) to manage these systems.

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