Palisades TrendReporter Tracks Network Bandwidth Use in Real Time

Palisade Systems Inc., a leading provider of internal network defense solutions, announced today the launch of TrendReporter, the real-time network bandwidth reporting tool. TrendReporter tracks all activities on the network to allow an organization to identify major drains on network bandwidth in real time.

AMES, Ia. (May 1, 2002) Palisade Systems Inc., a leading provider of internal network defense solutions, announced today the launch of TrendReporter, the real-time network bandwidth reporting tool. TrendReporter tracks all activities on the network to allow an organization to identify major drains on network bandwidth in real time.

TrendReporter offers a unique combination of predefined and customizable signatures to track network activities, making the monitoring and identification of network usage and activities easy and instant.

According to Eric Schnack, Palisades Chief Operating Officer, Many administrators arent certain about which users and applications are consuming critical network capacity. Network users often use higher speeds available at work to download songs and videos, which slows down the network to the detriment of business critical activities."

Schnack said, Using TrendReporter, when connected to Palisades PacketHound, provides an organization with an instant view of all activities on their network. Once TrendReporter has identified users or applications consuming large amounts of bandwidth, the system administrator can take an effective course of action to reduce this usage. This saves an organization money by reducing the need to upgrade network bandwidth. TrendReporter also verifies that all network traffic is related to business critical functions."

About Palisade Systems, Inc. Palisade Systems, Inc. helps organizations in the management and protection of critical network assets against a variety of threats from benign utilization issues to malicious attacks. The companys appliances offer easy-to-implement, proactive approaches to control network level access, filter Internet and application access, and provide decoy" style intrusion detection. The cornerstone of Palisades offering is its new FireBlock appliance, which addresses the single largest source of risk for security incidents on an internal network today -- virtually ubiquitous network-level access to all internal network systems and devices. Since its founding in 1996, the companys products have been installed in hundreds of businesses, schools, and universities across the country. For more information, please visit www.palisadesys.com or contact Palisades sales department at 1.888.824.0720.

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