IT security by dual control

October 21, 2004 (Press Release) -- Germany, Stuttgart, 21 October 2004 – VarySys Technologies, leading manufacturer of intrusion detection and prevention systems headquartered in Germany, presents PacketAlarm 4.1, a system which combines intrusion detection and prevention with a firewall and a vulnerability scanner. This not only offers the opportunity of protecting networks with intrusion detection and prevention capabilities, but also through a firewall and vulnerability scanner - a doubly secure approach to protection. The scanner specifically examines the systems to be protected for vulnerabilities and reports them. The system data of the network to be protected is correlated with the data captured by the vulnerability scanner and the data from the Intrusion Detection System. This means that PacketAlarm is able to report only those attacks, which are dangerous for the protected network and that PacketAlarm is able to estimate the risk of a vulnerability. PacketAlarm secures the networks in two different ways and therefore offers more than pure IDS or firewalls with IDS capabilities simply added-on. It is the only system on the market that combines intrusion detection and prevention, a firewall and a vulnerability scanner in one and thus drastically reduces the number of ‘false positives’.

PacketAlarm offers optimum levels of protection and is of particular interest to businesses of any size. There's no need to configure and maintain several systems. In fact, companies benefit from all-round protection from one single system.

Anyone interested in PacketAlarm and in testing the system free of charge can download a 30-day trial version from the PacketAlarm website: www.packetalarm.com.