The
new NetOp Desktop Firewall offers an innovative
and powerful tool for protecting your network,
PCs and Laptops. The NetOp Desktop Firewall
is the first ever driver-centric desktop
firewall. This means it loads and operates
entirely as a driver, protecting the computer
before Windows finishes loading and even
before your PC connects to the network.
In addition to traditional firewall control
of ports and protocols (packet filtering),
NetOp is the first and only desktop firewall
to combine dynamic packet filtering with
the control of processes and applications
- killing all unauthorized programs, such
as malware, at Ring 0, before they can
communicate or execute. Plus, when combined
with the optional NetOp Policy Server,
every NetOp Desktop Firewall client can
be centrally managed for simplistic configurations
and policy updates.
The NetOp Desktop Firewall and Policy
Server are designed to meet the needs of organizations
that are serious about security. The NetOp Desktop
Firewall is packed with features to help IT professionals
get the most out of firewall technology with unique
features for stand-alone users or as a centrally
managed system.
NetOp Desktop
Firewall v3.0
Process
Control
The NetOp Desktop Firewall's Process Control
feature is an extremely powerful
tool that enables you to manage the processes running
on your system. Using Process Control, you define
rules that apply for any process and application.
Unlike typical Firewall products that simply prevent
a suspect application from communicating - NetOp
gives you the ability to stop the process from
running at all. You can also specify if you want
to allow communication, only allow communication
of a trusted network, or prevent any communication
at all.
Security
at the Driver Level
Unlike standard personal
firewalls where process or application control, if
any, is very basic - the NetOp Desktop Firewall
provides security that is 100% at the driver level.
This means any risk of a security breach when the
system is started is eliminated. You stop both
unwanted attacks on the computer and also unwanted
processes from running.
Protection
for, and from, mobile users
Not
only does the NetOp Desktop Firewall keep your
user's laptops safe when they?’re on the road, it
makes sure that any malicious programs they?’ve
downloaded can't ?“escape?” when they get
back to the office.
Intelligent
Network Detection
By
recognizing different security profiles,
depending on location, the NetOp Desktop Firewall
allows you to do what you need to do when you?’re
at home, but shifts to high security at work to
protect your colleagues and company.
Packet Filtering
The NetOp Desktop Firewall dynamic packet filtering
architecture works at the network layer controlling
IP addresses ports and protocols. Dynamic packet
filtering monitors the states of the connections
and compiles this information in
a state table. Because of this, filtering decisions
are based in static packet filtering rules, but
also on context that has been established by prior
packets that have passed through the firewall. Due
to its driver level functionality
the NetOp Desktop
Firewall can also filter network traffic at gigabit
speeds with no detectable change in transfer speeds.
Minimal Overhead
NetOp utilizes minimal system resources so that the
protected computer's performance is barely affected
by its operation. In fact, the NetOp Desktop Firewall
can even be centrally managed and deployed fully
functional as a 75K driver and service, without a
graphical user interface which can consume significant
memory on a PC.
NetOp
Policy Server
The NetOp Desktop Firewall can be centrally managed
with the optional NetOp Policy Server. It includes
the modules NetOp Policy Server Console, Master Server
and Replica Server.
Centralized management and control
The NetOp Policy Server offers the
ability to centrally control and manage the firewall
configuration of all desktop firewalls on your network.
Administrators and security managers can easily,
and in real-time, define and manage the security
level of each PC. By centrally applying profiles,
administrators can ensure that security settings
are adjusted automatically according to the computer?’s
environment. And processes can be allowed or disallowed
centrally, meaning that malicious programs can be
eliminated within the first few critical minutes
of an infection.
NetOp Desktop Firewall Control
The NetOp Policy Server assigns a Security Policy
to a logged on NetOp Desktop Firewall specifying
firewall rules for Programs, Ports, Protocols, Profiles,
Trusted Nets and Banned Nets in real-time and also
records information from the NetOp Desktop Firewalls.
Manageability
The
NetOp Policy Server fully supports Microsoft
Active Directory and can apply Security
Policies
to computers being members of the Active Directory
Security Groups. This allows management of the
infrastructure security to be performed from an
administrator’s usual tool; Active Directory
Users and Computers.
Fault
Tolerance and Load Distribution
The NetOp Policy Server has a distributed design
where there is one Master server that supports
up to 32 replica servers for redundancy and fault
tolerance to ensure maximum system stability and
availability. The NetOp Policy Server can support
thousands of NDF clients with a single Master.
Redundancy is built in by pushing information on
all replicas to all NDF clients along with their
security policies. This way, any client can update
their policy from any of the available replicas.
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