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WormScout from ForeScout is designed specifically to protect companies from fast-spreading worms, by use of a patented ActiveResponse technology that sends counterfeit information in response to unknown probes, and then verifies the probe has ill intentions when it tries to use the counterfeit information to take further action. In this way, WormScout positively identifies a malicious worm, then suppresses it and contains it within a network cell set up by administrators.
The product can provide three levels of suppression: first, limiting infected hosts from communication over the specific ports the worm is infecting, ensuring the remaining ports are available; second is to block infected hosts from any communication, quarantining them until they are disinfected; and third is to disable the specific ports the worm is infecting across the entire network, ensuring that the worm can spread no further.
Delivered on an appliance with a hardened Linux operating system, the product has three components: WormScout Server monitors traffic entering and exiting the protected network segment; Management Server is an aggregation device that communicates with multiple WormScouts distributed across the enterprise, collecting their worm activity information and acting as an alert hub; and WormScout Enterprise Manager is a Java-based application that provides for policy configuration, reporting, setting containment actions, and providing a visual overview o the WormScout protection activity. The latter includes a graphic network map that can display the location of worm-infected computer and their IP addresses.
Customers have the option of turning on a learning algorithm that will observe legitimate scans of the network, such as from a vulnerability scanner.
"We could then exempt that if it is operating on a particular IP address," says Timothy Riley, VP of marketing for ForeScout.
The product is priced at $10,000 at low volumes and $5,000 per unit at higher volumes. Annual maintenance is 18% of the purchase price. The appliances do not require frequent software updates, since they do not use a signature-based approach.
Rethinking the Datacenter
Putting the Green into IT
Managing the Modern Network
Evaluating Software as a Service for Your Business
Is Your Disaster Recovery Plan Good Enough? 
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