By John McHale
RICHARDSON, Texas - Officials at Intrusion completed a yearlong information security project with the U.S. Army’s Directorate of Information Management (DOIM) Fort Huachuca, Ariz. The project includes Intrusion’s SecureNet Pro network-based intrusion detection and prevention system and a security process management system called the security status review.
“The Fort Huachuca DOIM recognized two years ago that a new approach would be required to respond to the growing scale of our IT security challenges,” explains William T. Doyle, director Fort Huachuca DOIM. “The solution required raising the threat visibility and implementing the necessary [information assurance] personnel training and security management processes to get ahead of the attacks. Once we deployed the Intrusion infrastructure, we gained more situational awareness about security trends and were able to begin signature-based blocking of attacks in order to prevent further disruption to the Army’s IT systems.”
The Intrusion SecureNet system provides deep-packet analysis and application awareness and can deploy passively for intrusion detection or actively for intrusion prevention, Intrusion officials say. The SecureNet System provides intelligence about the traffic on a local-area network and removes much of the guesswork involved in establishing defenses on the external and internal perimeters, Intrusion officials say. SecureNet also includes Intrusion’s new SpySnare signatures to detect and block unauthorized Peer-to-Peer (P2P) traffic and spyware infections, company officials say.
SecureNet sensors have superior coverage and fewer false-positives and provide attack detection on any speed network, company officials say. SecureNet sensors are easy to deploy and are designed around an architecture that provides greater overall network intelligence to the security analyst. Combined with Intrusion’s Security Status Review, multi-site organizations can easily standardize on incident reporting and rapid response handling, Intrusion officials say.
“Intrusion worked closely with the Fort Huachuca DOIM to understand how best to help eliminate worms, viruses, spyware infections, and other malicious network-based attacks,” says Ben Bittle, Intrusion Director of Product Management. “Partnering with Fort Huachuca and several other Army sites allowed us to refine our SecureNet support and deliver a more effective solution.”
Fort Huachuca is home to the U.S. Army Military Intelligence Corps, Network Enterprise Technology Command, 9th Army Signal Command, Electronic Proving Grounds, the Army Information Systems Engineering Command, Joint Interoperability Test Center Communications and Electronics Command, the Army Garrison, and several other Army activities. For more information, visit www.intrusion.com.
