Proventia Desktop Endpoint Security

Helping to secure your desktops with multilayered protection

Service detail

The endpoint is the new perimeter, and threats to endpoints—the desktops and laptops that are the lifeline of your organization—are rapidly evolving with profit-driven cybercriminals launching attacks that are undetectable by legacy security products.

Highlights

Reduces risk from both known and unknown types of attacks

Provides multilayered security in a single agent

Helps to ensure compliance and simplify management

Helps prevent the type of attacks that lead to data theft

An integrated, single-agent endpoint security solution, IBM Proventia® Desktop Endpoint Security, is designed to automatically protect desktops and laptops against known and unknown threats, hackers, and other intrusions that can cripple your business.

Addressing the threat

Your desktop environment is a prime target for malicious attacks which can result in widespread system outages and data loss. When a breach occurs, not only is your business productivity impacted, but you also face the grim possibility that sensitive business information may be compromised. Like many companies and organizations, your challenge is that your existing security solutions are not able to keep pace with rapidly evolving, profit-driven threats. What you need is an integrated and affordable desktop security solution that will provide preemptive, ahead of the threat protection.

IBM Proventia® Desktop Endpoint Security is designed to stop intrusions and attacks before they happen. We can help you prevent downtime and costly data loss, mitigate known and new threats, ensure security compliance, and lower your total cost of ownership. With multilayered protection, we help you fight threats regardless of attack mode. Our solution combines personal firewall, antivirus and anti-spyware with innovative preemptive technologies like vulnerability-centric intrusion prevention and the IBM Internet Security Systems™ (ISS) patented virus prevention system¹—all in a single agent that also supports the Microsoft® Windows Vista™ 32-bit operating system.

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Reducing risk from known and unknown attacks

Backed by cutting-edge, continuous security research, IBM Proventia Desktop Endpoint Security is designed to preemptively stop both known and evolving threats. We combine innovative, behavior-based protection technologies with conventional, signature-based technologies to help identify and block new attacks before they happen. And our comprehensive support helps you fight both network-based and application-based threats.

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Providing multilayered protection in a single agent

Unlike other security solutions, IBM Proventia Desktop Endpoint Security delivers comprehensive protection in a single product, from a single vendor. Designed for easy integration with your existing infrastructure, we combine a personal firewall, intrusion prevention, buffer overflow exploit prevention, application protection and virus prevention in a single agent. This multilayered protection includes a combination of technologies: