Intel Packet Protect is designed to protect the confidentiality and authenticity of IP traffic on your LAN.
Intel Packet Protect can assist you in creating a departmental solution for your security concerns.
Many data compromises are attempted from within a company firewall. Unless you protect information as it travels on the network, it can be received by unintended users.
For example, employees retrieving confidential designs from a Research & Development department server use Intel Packet Protect to encrypt the information while it travels on the LAN. Encryption protects the confidentiality of the information. Each employee's system can also verify the integrity of the information upon receipt.
Intel Packet Protect enables you to:
If you need to protect data stored on a system, use operating system features combined with Intel Packet Protect. Intel Packet Protect protects data traveling between systems, not while it's stored on a system. Use your operating system features or network infrastructure element to provide access control to certain areas of the systems on the network.
Implementing an IPSec solution can increase processor utilization for systems that use the IPSec software. This is common when implementing any IPSec solution because of the intense computation required to encrypt, decrypt, and validate packets. However, there is a way to offload security tasks from the processor.
You can combine Intel Packet Protect with the use of an Intel PRO/100 S Management or Server Adapter to reduce processor utilization. This frees processor utilization for other tasks, while reducing the impact to network performance.
Intel Packet Protect is available in two versions:
Intel Packet Protect help can be found in the Help directory on the product CD-ROM.
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