Jon's Network

eEye had a good story to tell on their webinar this morning. It looks like Blink is their flagship product that professes to be the ultimate desktop security client. It is quite compelling. The hard drive on my Windows box got fried a couple of weeks ago, and Dell hasn’t responded to my support request, so I won’t be testing Blink anytime soon, but based on what I know now, I would encourage anyone stuck in Windows to look at Blink.

    <h4>The Problem</h4>
    According to eEye, the typical company will install seven different security clients to protect from viruses, spyware and other intrusions.  This is expensive in terms of licensing costs and management.  And it isn't working.  Using the reactive, filtering type of technology against the steady flow of attacks is a constant game of catch-up for the vendors.  What is the best approach to get out of this mess?

    <h4>eEye's Solution</h4>
    <p>Blink is the "single ubiquitous client for Windows".  Instead of looking just at signatures, or even just how applications behave, Blink looks at the method of attack.  I don't know what that entails.  I do know that eEye looked at 7000 different attacks and grouped them into 301 different methods.  They defend against those methods.  Because of this approach, eEye has not needed to update their HIPS in two years.</p>
    <p>Proving an ROI is rather easy.  Instead of buying and managing seven different agents, which eEye said would cost $193 per machine per year for AV, client firewall, anti-spyware, anti-phishing, HIPS, application firewall, and buffer overflow protection. Blink gives you that and more for only $60 per year. </p>

        <p><a href="http://www.eeye.com/html/products/Blink/index.html" title='Endpoint Security | Host-based Intrusion Prevention | Enterprise Network Security'>eEye Blink</a></p>