eEye Digital Security®, a leading developer of unified client security and vulnerability management tools, today announced that its flagship Blink endpoint security product has long included antibot and antibotnet protection to its users since the product's market introduction in 2005.
(ALISO VIEJO, CA) July 20, 2007 — eEye Digital Security®, a leading developer of unified client security and vulnerability management tools, today announced that its flagship Blink endpoint security product has long included antibot and antibotnet protection to its users since the product's market introduction in 2005.
"The solution to prevent the spread of bots and botnets is freely available today and has been for some time," says Marc Maiffret, co-founder and CTO, eEye Digital Security, "Unlike our competitors, our endpoint security technology Blink has long included antibot technology at no extra charge."
A botnet is a collection of networked computers that interact to accomplish some distributed task. Although such a collection of computers can be used for useful and constructive applications, the term "botnet" typically refers to such a system designed and used for illegal purposes. Such systems are composed of compromised machines that are assimilated without their owner's knowledge. The compromised machines are referred to as 'drones' or 'zombies', the malicious software running on them as 'bot'.
Keylogging is likely the most threatening form of botnet feature, targeting an individual's privacy and personal data. Bots can watch for keyboard activity and report the keystrokes upstream to be used at a later time to gain access to confidential information and account details belonging to both individuals and businesses.
"At eEye we do not take advantage of our customers by forcing them to buy new and extra security features; our products simply work at protecting corporate networks and consumers from the attacks of today and tomorrow," continued Maiffret. "Many security vendors nickel and dime the public by marketing separate antispyware, antivirus, and antibot products. We at eEye provide it all in one, integrated, lightweight package for $59 for businesses and under $25 for personal use. You can’t beat that."
Blink® Personal and Blink® Enterprise editions immediately identify system and application flaws that currently go undetected and unpatched despite using Microsoft Windows Update. Blink offers multiple protection layers built into a single lightweight agent protecting systems and confidential information with:
- Intrusion prevention and system protection from remote attacks including botnets - preventing computers from morphing into zombies or bots;
- Multiple antivirus engines, including protection from unknown 'zero-day' attacks;
- Spyware and adware detection and removal;
- Antiphishing and identity theft attempt prevention;
- System and application firewalls to control remote access to your system;
- Detection of missing patches for applications and the operating system;
- Detection of configuration issues that lower system security.
A study by the University of Maryland's Clark School of Engineering, noted for being one of the first to quantify the near-constant rate of hacker attacks of computers with Internet access, found that computers are being attacked every 39 seconds on average, for an average total of 2,244 times a day.
The number of active botnets can fluctuate daily from 1,000 to 2,000 and above. Many lie dormant until pressed into commercial service to activate a spam campaign or for malicious purposes to launch denial-of-service attacks. Infected zombies number in the millions. Trade weekly Network World reported that about 3.5 million bots are used to send spam daily.
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eEye Digital Security® is pioneering a new class of security products:integrated threat management. This next-generation of security detects vulnerabilities and threats, prevents intrusions, protects all of an enterprise’s key computing resources, from endpoints to network assets to web sites and web applications, all while providing a centralized point of security management and network visibility.eEye’s research team is consistently the first to identify new threats in the wild, and our products leverage that research to deliver on the goal of making network security as easy to use and reliable as networking itself. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Orange County, California, eEye Digital Security protects more than 9,000 corporate and government organizations worldwide, including half of the Fortune 100. For more information, please visit www.eeye.com
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