BOUNCER by CoreTrace:  Federal, State, and Local Government

Federal, State and Local Government Solutions from BOUNCER by CoreTrace

There are few environments in which security is of more concern than within government agencies. Highly publicized breaches of sensitive data, including social security numbers, have lead to intense levels of scrutiny. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800-53, entitled "Recommended Security Controls for Federal Information Systems", details security standards for low, moderate, and high impact information systems.

With malware threats proliferating at an exponential rate, already over-taxed agencies are burning the candle at both ends just trying to stay abreast of all the latest security patches and updates from antivirus vendors using outdated blacklist technologies. Traditional antivirus and anti-malware solutions rely on continually updated blacklists that compare applications launched on an endpoint with a list of hundreds of thousands of known-bad exploits. All this really accomplishes is slowing down systems to a crawl and keeping IT staff jumping deploying patches.

BOUNCER by CoreTrace takes a different approach — application whitelisting. Residing in the kernel of the operating system, BOUNCER quickly compares applications against a much-shorter list of approved programs — those applications that are required for the user of the computer to do their job, period. If the program isn't on the list, it doesn't run. This simple, effective, low-impact method has a host of advantages:

  • Zero-day protection
    There's no lag at all between the release of a new exploit and the protection of your endpoints against it.
  • Unauthorized applications
    Not only do unauthorized applications fail to run, an alert is generated every time there is a policy variation, no matter how the application made its way onto the system. This not only prevents malware, but stops users from loading productivity-reducing applications.
  • Minimal impact
    The BOUNCER client typically takes up less than 20 MB, and uses less than 2 percent of the CPU.
  • Put an end to patching
    Regain valuable IT personnel assets by breaking the endless chain of security updates an patches. Update only what your agency deems important, and ignore the rest.
  • Reduction in help desk calls
    Controlling the configuration and whitelisting applications results in fewer help desk calls and more productive end users and IT staff.

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