Do you long for the time when the biggest demand on your IT department was from
users who needed help retrieving forgotten passwords?
While IT life may never be quite that simple again, Alcatel’s Automated Quarantine
Engine (AQE) can help you eliminate your biggest headache – security issues from
worms and viruses. Alcatel’s AQE identifies and locates the infected network devices
and automatically creates the policies necessary to quarantine the infected devices –
and does it in seconds without impact on other devices!
Sound expensive? Actually, it will save you money because:
•There’s no additional hardware required on Alcatel switches
•There’s no additional software required on Alcatel switches
•It’s fully interoperable with other vendor switches
•It cuts network downtime keeping employees up and running
So how does this work? A good analogy is the travel industry’s check-in process. A few
years ago when you arrived at an airport, you would get in a check-in line that wrapped
endlessly because ticketing and check-in was a labor and time intensive operation. By
offloading labor to an automated check-in process, staffing costs are reduced and
passenger waiting time is reduced.
Today, travelers walk up to an airline’s kiosk, insert an identification card such as a driver’s
license, select a seat, and get a boarding pass in less than a minute and are on their way.
Problem passengers are isolated and required to check-in via an agent saving the business
money, and most customers a great deal of time. Your network security should be this
automated and fast!
The network is the heart of a defense system. Security appliances are good, but inadequate
since they are too costly to be widely deployed, most of them only detect, and those that
can act only act locally. Only the network can act everywhere, and in particular, at the
source of an attack. Cooperation of appliances and the network is the key – appliances
detect or act locally while the network acts and punishes at the source of the problem.
Automated Quarantine Engine
Automatic detection and containment of viruses
