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Active
eIRM Security Tools Help Detect and Avoid These New Forms of Electronic
Assault
Active Internet content, invisible software microbes which silently
enter computer networks and serve as ruthless digital moles for
outside agents, now pose a greater threat to enterprises than viruses,
according to a new report by Aberdeen Group, a leading market analysis
and positioning services firm.
According to Aberdeen, many enterprise networks, most consumer PCs
and almost all ISPs are now infected with active Internet content
containing malicious software exploits that include: surreptitiously
capturing email handles, passwords and keystrokes; silently enabling
hidden network services and ports, from PCs through firewalls; and
redirecting outbound data to offshore sites by spoofing DNS addresses.
Unlike traditional viruses, active Internet content is generally
not detectable using traditional pattern matching security technologies,
which are not looking for active content or cannot keep up with
its rapid rate of change. In addition, they are not restricted to
specific payloads; harmful content has been found in Email Spam
bombs, on Websites and in simple text-based email.
"During the past few years, almost every home user and organization
with PCs connected to the Internet has been exposed to new forms
of harmful software running amok across the Internet," said
Jim Hurley, Vice President and Managing Director for Aberdeen Group
and author of the new report, Active eIRM: New Realities for Managing
Electronic Infrastructure Security. "This content is now being
used for electronic reconnaissance, electronic probing, mail-marketing,
spamming, electronic theft, cybercrime, cyberterrorism, electronic
identity theft and financial loss. Code Red, and other well-publicized
recent exploits are just the tip of a much larger problem."
Signs of active harmful Internet content infections include: incoming
email with the user's Email address; degraded throughput and excessive
disk drive chatter; unauthorized outbound connections to routers;
Web site defacements; unauthorized and uninvited Instant Messaging
and Peer-to-Peer protocols; Trojan horses embedded in IT maintenance
software; and automated redirection of network IP destinations,
among others.
Prepared to coincide with the release of the Federal Government's
National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, the Aberdeen report indicates
that during the past year, many IT managers have begun to alter
their plans and shift their focus to defend against harmful Internet
content as well as leaks and assaults in and on the enterprise network,
and business risk occurring form the misuse and abuse of email and
Web servers.
According to the report, a new capability, the automation of security
processes, is providing IT with the ability to automate customized
security processes throughout the enterprise. The result, active
electronic infrastructure management (Active eIRM) security, is
a step in the right direction of IT especially for IT buyer who
are perpetually overloaded and underfunded. When applied to the
IT infrastructure, the automation of security policy, combined with
a new reordering of security's black box, promises more accurate
measurement and management of risk
"The age of harmful active Internet content means that a dynamically
moving electronic Maginot line must now be deployed to mitigate
new risks," he continued. "Active eIRM is well placed
to assist IT in combating the new era of software exploits."
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