The best defence is to have complete knowledge about your network activity and the power to act on it.
FMS Gateway gives you both!
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Stop Viruses, Worms, Malware at Network Entry Point
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Besides harmful programs like worms/viruses/malware, the second type of content in this category may or
may not cause direct harm but becomes a continuous drag on the organisation's network. This category of
applications include music, video and similar file sharing applications which make an organisation's network
become internet itself and may open it to general public. These popular applications are commonly known as
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and they are very innovative and constantly keep changing their way of operating. They
can not be blocked by one time effort but require constant effort on the part of network administrator. For
this reason, it is vital to have all network activity data to know if any such application is running in the
network, and if yes, which user is running it and what network parameters are being used by the application.
FMS-Enterprise Gateway offers powerful set of tools against (a) harmful programs and (b) resource
draining (P2P) applications. These include:
- Complete, up to the minute network activity data is available in simple understandable form to know
and act against P2P applications.
- FMS Systems deployed in the customer networks receive automatic updates from Clear Packets to
block newly discovered harmful content right at the network entry point (from entering the
organization's network).
- Most of the known P2P applications are automatically blocked from being downloaded to stop users
from installing it on their computers.
- FMS provides a powerful option which allows network administrators to block any content they feel
harmful or unwanted by creating a filter for it by themselves.
But most effective of all is the power of knowledge FMS puts at the hands of the network administrators to
know in absolute terms what is happening in their network. Any abnormal behavior such as excessive use of
bandwidth by a user on any day, in any week or any month is quickly noticed and can be traced back to a
root cause instead of guess work.
FMS-Enterprise Gateway is a major technological advancement in terms of being able to identify known
harmful content such as viruses, worms, malware, spyware, P2P clients or any other program, right on the
wire using terminate-worms-on-wire technology. This technology gives power to precisely kill all known
harmful programs on the wire before they reach their target, instead of trying to cure their symptoms. The
unique ability to be able to precisely identify any program, whether it is being transported using any of the
common TCP/UDP/IP protocols like HTTP, FTP, TFTP etc., is a significant leap forward in terms of
advanced network security and fills an important security gap currently open when FMS-Enterprise Gateway
is not present in the network.
With FMS-Enterprise Gateway, there is no need to build white lists, black lists when a known worm is trying
to spread. Create your own filter in less than 1 minute for any harmful program you come across using
simple point and click interface and precisely stop any found virus or worm right on the wire.

