LANDesk Software recently announced the unveiling of its Host Intrusion Prevention suite, a behaviour-based security monitoring, alerting and remediation offering. Host-enabled intrusion prevention systems is said to rise above usual anti-virus software in giving protection to PCs founded on the system’s behaviour. The Host Intrusion Prevention system boasts of protecting from rootkits, zero-day threats and other malware, as said by Landesk.
Dissimilar to the signature-enabled scanning technology utilized by famous anti-virus and anti-spyware deliverances, Landesk’s toolkit technology does not depend only on previously present signatures and pattern files for detection of malware. Rather, it makes use of rules-enabled technology that looks at network traffic and machine behaviour to make out incongruities or occurrences of security policy breaches founded upon pre-defined rules fixed by security and IT administrators.
The Host Intrusion Prevention kit is included with security-augmenting potentials like application access control with the help of white listing, and file behaviour analysis and security via policy-enabled remediation. It is also said to be delivering immediate spying of machine start-up commands, rootkit finding and elimination, and finding of uncertified clients and Internet servers.
