Today, any higher education institution (university, college) is highly dependent upon networking and computing technologies. Higher education institution infrastructure must continue to be protected in order to ensure continuity of services for the core functions-research, education, and business processes required to run the university. It is crucial that any university state and enforce a clear network security policy to protect the students, faculty, and staff from internal and external threats inherent in network usage.

Hackers scan computers accessible to the Internet approximately one million times/day in order to break into them. User' computers in a campus network are exposed to many attacks, such as Install spyware to monitor user key-presses, emails, IMs, or anything else, steal enough information to impersonate users for fun or profit and to delete, change, and/or steal user and university administrative/financial/personal data.

HALONS systems enable educational institutions to secure their networks affordably without sacrificing the ease of access. SafeMedia HALONS deploys several "Intrusion Detection technologies" to help facilitate:

The detection and respond to information security incidents involving computers connected to any campus network or violations of the "Internet Acceptable Use Policy"

To protect campuses and universities computing and information assets, and to comply with information-related laws, regulations, and policies such as Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA).

HALONS is an automated system monitoring and analyzing network traffic and generating "alerts" in response to activity that either matches known signatures or is anomalous or varies from standers protocol behavior. In some cases, alerts trigger further automated processes.

In addition, SafeMedia's HALONS may deploy signatures that allow them to respond proactively to vulnerable computers. For example, security contacts can be notified about computers that don't appear to be applying security updates or may be "leaking" restricted data. Advanced technologies; such as reactive security technology, host-based intrusion prevention, applications of peer-to-peer networks are implemented to facilitated the rapid capture of threats.

Protecting the privacy of the campus community is a very high priority for SafeMedia. For this reason, HALONS provides in-depth forensic data. Security analysts will only examine enough data to determine the validity of the incident and identify the appropriate security contact to notify.

HALONS systems can be deployed at the border of the campus network. HALONS sensors "Probes" may also be deployed deeper inside the network in order to discover compromised systems that don't exhibit any signs of compromise outside of the campus network. Each of those probes has different strengths and customization which makes it ideal for quickly deploying signatures for new threats that students need for effective learning.

• Effective In-Depth Security and End-to-End Network Protection Coverage
• Two Dual Attack Vector Detection Engines & Over 45,000 Global Custom Rules
• Minimal False Positives through Protocol Behavioral Analysis
• Wire Speed Operation through the deployment of multi-threaded in Kernel engine
• In-Depth Risk Detection through Protocol Behavioral Analysis and Resistance to avoidance Techniques
• Maximum Flexibility in Deployment and Configuration
• Intuitive and easy to use Drill-Down Graphic Interface
• 24/7/365 Customer Support & Technical Assistance
• High-Level Customer Investment Protection & Economical Ownership Costs