Leading Endpoint Security Software Prohibits Unauthorized Programs and Blocks Malware by Providing Flexible Policy Enforcement for Acceptable Application Use
HERNDON, Va. — SecureWave, a worldwide leader in endpoint security, today announced that the First National Bank of Bosque County in Valley Mills, Texas is using SecureWave’s Sanctuary[R] endpoint security software as an alternative to traditional anti-virus solutions to prevent viruses, spyware, worms and all other forms of malware from infecting the bank’s PCs and servers. An overview of how the First National Bank of Bosque County is using Sanctuary to enforce acceptable application use policies and prevent malware is available online at: http://www.securewave.com/data/?id=WCMContenido%20M24647327271261~ S116389~NSanctuary_Success_Story_First%20National%20Bank%20of% 20Bosque%20County%20.pdf. (Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser’s address field. Remove the extra spaces if they exist.)
"Sanctuary addresses all of our concerns when it comes to malware prevention and blocking unauthorized applications. A complete whitelist is easy to construct, and it only changes when we need it to," said Brent Rickels, senior vice president at the First National Bank of Bosque County and the lone member of the IT staff. "The anti-virus and other blacklisting solutions are controlled by a third party, but we are able to completely control the whitelist of allowed executables. Also, a blacklist can never be complete because of the myriad of new viruses being introduced all the time. Sanctuary is cheaper than anti-virus so it has paid for itself already. Dropping one vendor in favor of a less expensive, more effective one is pretty much a no-brainer."
SecureWave’s Sanctuary enables Rickels to create a whitelist of applications allowed to run on the bank’s workstations, blocking all malicious code and unwanted software by default. In addition to keeping the bank’s endpoints protected against viruses, Trojans, spyware, worms and other malicious code, Sanctuary provides Rickels with the ability to block specific applications — including peer-to-peer (P2P) and instant messaging (IM) programs — that he does not want employees to run. By blocking these programs altogether, Rickels can ensure that no sensitive data is leaving the bank via IM and that P2P software is not taking up valuable bandwidth.
"Whether it’s the latest variation of the Storm Worm that recently infected so many computers or a customized Trojan designed to exploit a single vulnerability in a specific application, the nature of malware is such that traditional blacklisting approaches are no longer effective as a first line of defense to protecting corporate PCs, laptops and servers," said Dennis Szerszen, senior vice president of SecureWave. "Sanctuary removes the guess work from malware prevention by enabling IT administrators to focus only on the applications they know to be safe. Denying all other executables by default ensures that no malicious code — known or unknown — will deliver its payload or propagate to other machines. The First National Bank of Bosque County and thousands of other companies across the globe rely on Sanctuary as the most effective solution for proactively enforcing acceptable application use policies and preventing all forms of malware."
About SecureWave
With SecureWave’s Sanctuary[R], organizations set and enforce policies for device and application use that overcome tomorrow’s security and operational challenges today. More than 1,500 enterprises worldwide in the financial, government, military, manufacturing and healthcare sectors, including Lockheed Martin, CSC/Anglian Water Services, MTU, Barclays Bank PLC and Norwich Union, utilize Sanctuary. SecureWave, named a Red Herring Top 100 Innovator, is headquartered in Luxembourg and services its global customer base via offices in the U.K. and Herndon, VA, as well as through a network of reseller and service provider partners worldwide. To learn more about SecureWave, please call (703) 713-3960 or visit www.securewave.com.
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