Endpoint security software has evolved from traditional antivirus software to protect corporate desktops and laptops from malicious code that can be introduced into the network via email, removable media such as USB drives and web browsing. With the industry's leading security vendors now detecting in excess of 450,000 new instances of malware per year, no manufacturer now relies on pattern-based scanning technology alone to protect your company workstations. Instead, a combination of measures are deployed to provide protection against both known and unknown malicious code including:

• Pattern-based scanning - To identify all "known" malicious code.

• Application aware personal firewall - To prevent password stealers and keyloggers from passing confidential information back out through the company firewall.

• Intrusion Prevention - To protect against network worms and known browser exploits.

• "White Listing" of known good applications - Notifies the network administrator in the event that unauthorised applications are discovered on a workstation so that a remediation process can be triggered and / or Network access policy enforced

• Control of peripheral devices - that may be connected to prevent users plugging in non-approved USB drives, Smart Drives and MP3 players.

Through our relationships with the major security companies, we are able to offer you advice and assistance on implementation of a number of the major endpoint security suppliers' products.