Federal, State and Local Government Solutions from BOUNCER by CoreTrace
There are few environments in which security is of more concern than within government agencies. Highly publicized breaches of sensitive data, including social security numbers, have lead to intense levels of scrutiny. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800-53, entitled "Recommended Security Controls for Federal Information Systems", details security standards for low, moderate, and high impact information systems.
With malware threats proliferating at an exponential rate, already over-taxed agencies are burning the candle at both ends just trying to stay abreast of all the latest security patches and updates from antivirus vendors using outdated blacklist technologies. Traditional antivirus and anti-malware solutions rely on continually updated blacklists that compare applications launched on an endpoint with a list of hundreds of thousands of known-bad exploits. All this really accomplishes is slowing down systems to a crawl and keeping IT staff jumping deploying patches.
BOUNCER by CoreTrace takes a different approach — application whitelisting. Residing in the kernel of the operating system, BOUNCER quickly compares applications against a much-shorter list of approved programs — those applications that are required for the user of the computer to do their job, period. If the program isn't on the list, it doesn't run. This simple, effective, low-impact method has a host of advantages:
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Zero-day protection
There's no lag at all between the release of a new exploit and the protection of your endpoints against it.
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Unauthorized applications
Not only do unauthorized applications fail to run, an alert is generated every time there is a policy variation, no matter how the application made its way onto the system. This not only prevents malware, but stops users from loading productivity-reducing applications.
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Protection without lockdown
BOUNCER's patent-pending "Trusted Change" model allows you to specify a wide range of entities — specific applications, network paths, users, even ActiveX installations and digital signatures — as trusted sources of change. IT doesn't have to approve each application update request or installation of an approved application.
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Minimal impact
The BOUNCER client typically takes up less than 20 MB, and uses less than 2 percent of the CPU.
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Put an end to patching
Regain valuable IT personnel assets by breaking the endless chain of security updates an patches. Update only what your agency deems important, and ignore the rest.
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Reduction in help desk calls
Controlling the configuration and whitelisting applications results in fewer help desk calls and more productive end users and IT staff.
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Less time to secure endpoints
Rather than hand-tooling a whitelist for each endpoint, BOUNCER allows IT staff to automatically install to all or a group of endpoints in just minutes.
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Leverage your Active Directory investment
Optional Active Directory integration allows you to "push" installation of endpoints even faster.
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Efficient group management
BOUNCER gives you the power to manage many endpoints as a single collection, reducing administrative overhead and improving productivity.
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