Aladdin eSafe Anti Anonymizer

Some Employees and Students Can Get Around Security

eSafe Anti-Anonymizer Plugs Enterprise Security Holes

If your employees are using anonymizers, they are effectively nullifying your security investment. Anonymizer technology can bypass thousands of pounds' worth of network protection and expose your business to attacks ranging from mischievous hackers to cyber criminals. Aladdin provides the world's only solution that consistently blocks all anonymizers. As part of Aladdin's commitment to constant innovation and top-notch security, eSafe Anti-Anonymizer is an essential enterprise security tool.

Anonymizer Anatomy

Anonymous proxies, or anonymizers, are Web sites or software that hide a user's real IP address, allowing them to connect to an external Web site and bypass restrictions against prohibited material on the local network. But anonymizers also allow content - and the malware infections that it often carries – to avoid filters in the gateway device and enter the network, where it can easily defeat traditional security measures.

Triple Layer Dynamic Enforcement

Until now anonymizers have been difficult to beat. These malicious servers frequently change URL addresses, thereby fooling traditional Web content filtering technologies and outpacing even the largest of signature lists. In addition, new anonymizer technologies can create an encrypted tunnel to the Internet, which bypass corporate perimeter guards that are blind to encrypted traffic.

Moreover, new technologies can create an encrypted tunnel to the Internet by passing corporate perimeter guards that are blind to encrypted traffic. In short, your security is subject to employees' compliance with corporate Internet usage policy - unless you protect your enterprise with eSafe Anti-Anonymizer.

This means that you have two options: put your invaluable security and protection needs in the hands of employees or students who "might" comply with your Internet usage policy, or get protected with eSafe, the only solution to deliver complete, real-time protection by working across multiple layers to

• Deliver real-time identification of anonymous proxies by analyzing and correlating their behavior (not just by their URL, IP or port) revealing disguises and blocking tunneling efforts.
• Identify SSL-encrypted anonymous proxy sites, decrypting them for further inspection by the additional layers.
• Provide advanced URL filtering that supports policy and productivity and blocks access to known anonymous proxy sites, and unrecognized sites, whitelists, and blacklists

It May Be Fun for Them

When employees or students use anonymizing tools and services, their misuse of organisational resources turns into a threat. The worrisome surge in malware, estimated at a 1,300% growth during the past year, is not just about annoying viruses.

Malware can be used to steal information and damage computer systems – and who knows what the next generation of viruses will be able to do?

Added to the fact that anonymizers can be used to access illegal Web sites, and considering new regulations affecting network security like CIPA and SOX, your potential liability is about much more than an unproductive employee. All it takes is one successful malware penetration to void your security efforts and investment.

eSafe – Dynamic Enforcement of Anonymous Web Surfing Policy

eSafe Anti-Anonymizer is the only solution that completely defeats anonymizer technology, protecting your investment in security and limiting your liability due to employee resource abuse. eSafe Anti-Anonymizer uses three layers of protection to prevent anonymizer use:

• eSafe Web, a URL Filtering Solution that blocks access to known anonymizers and unrecognized Web sites.
• eSafe Applifilter, which enforces authorized proxy use while blocking tunneling efforts.
• eSafe Web SSL, which enforces policy on SSL encrypted anonymizer sites. It can proactively identify and block unknown anonymizers as well as block self-signed SSL sites (“homebrew anonymizers”). eSafe Web SSL has the ability to validate certificates, policies, issuers, revocations, etc.

Between these three steps, eSafe detects all efforts to use anonymizers. Aladdin's Content Security Response Team (CSRT) blocked 100 percent of anonymizers in repeated lab tests, keeping computers free from viruses, spyware, worms and other malicious threats. Competitive solutions did not stand up to proxy threats and allowed users to leave the protected network.

Want to learn more? Contact Matrix IT today to learn how you can defeat anonymizer technology and protect your enterprise security. Please call Chris Gallagher on 01274 588600