Alcatel Automated Quarantine Engine User Manual

Automatic detection and containment of viruses

Automated Quarantine Engine

Automatic detection and containment of viruses

Do you long for the time when the biggest demand on your IT department was from

users who needed help retrieving forgotten passwords?

While IT life may never be quite that simple again, Alcatel's Automated Quarantine

Engine (AQE) can help you eliminate your biggest headache – security issues from

worms and viruses. Alcatel's AQE identiﬁes and locates the infected network devices

and automatically creates the policies necessary to quarantine the infected devices –

and does it in seconds without impact on other devices!

Sound expensive? Actually, it will save you money because:

•There's no additional hardware required on Alcatel switches

•There's no additional software required on Alcatel switches

•It's fully interoperable with other vendor switches

•It cuts network downtime keeping employees up and running

So how does this work? A good analogy is the travel industry's check-in process. A few

years ago when you arrived at an airport, you would get in a check-in line that wrapped

endlessly because ticketing and check-in was a labor and time intensive operation. By

ofﬂoading labor to an automated check-in process, stafﬁng costs are reduced and

passenger waiting time is reduced.

Today, travelers walk up to an airline's kiosk, insert an identiﬁcation card such as a driver's

license, select a seat, and get a boarding pass in less than a minute and are on their way.

Problem passengers are isolated and required to check-in via an agent saving the business

money, and most customers a great deal of time. Your network security should be this

automated and fast!

The network is the heart of a defense system. Security appliances are good, but inadequate

since they are too costly to be widely deployed, most of them only detect, and those that

can act only act locally. Only the network can act everywhere, and in particular, at the

source of an attack. Cooperation of appliances and the network is the key – appliances

detect or act locally while the network acts and punishes at the source of the problem.

Table of Contents

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Page 1 Do you long for the time when the biggest demand on your IT department was from users who needed help retrieving forgotten passwords? While IT life may never be quite that simple again, Alcatel’s Automated Quarantine Engine (AQE) can help you eliminate your biggest headache – security issues from worms and viruses.
Page 2 Typical virus containment solution Automated Quarantine Engine To address these security issues, Alcatel offers the Automated Quarantine Engine (AQE). AQE is a combination of hardware and software, which provides an automated mechanism that denies access to an endpoint that is not secure to the network infrastructure, including wireless devices.
Page 3 Automated Quarantine Engine entire Alcatel network infrastructure so that the user cannot get access to any sensitive resources even if he moves and changes his physical port. Once in the quarantine area, the infected device still maintains network connectivity for remote remediation. After remediation is completed, the AQE will let the network administrator move the “cleaned”...
Page 4 Product speciﬁcations contained in this document are subject to change without notice. Contact your local Alcatel representative for the most current information. Copyright © 2004 Alcatel Internetworking, Inc. All rights reserved. This document may not be reproduced in whole or in part without the expressed written permission of Alcatel Internetworking, Inc. Alcatel ®...