On September 7, Symantec launched Norton AntiVirus and Norton Internet Security 2012, which are designed to improve on their already industry-leading benchmarks for protection and performance, while enhancing the overall user experience.

Key technologies of Norton Internet Security 2012:

• Online identity protection
• Antivirus
• Antispyware
• Parental controls management
• Social network protection
• Browser protection
• Phishing protection
• Smart firewall
• Network mapping and monitoring
• Antispam
• Worm protection
• Rootkit protection

Norton Internet Security delivers fast and light online threat protection. It guards your PC, network, online activities, and your identity with innovative detection technologies optimized to combat today’s aggressive, rapid-fire attacks. Norton Internet Security makes online shopping, banking, and browsing safer and more convenient than ever.

The improved Norton Protection System features multi-layered security technologies. They work together to provide the comprehensive protection that detects and removes network security threats before they can harm your PC. The Norton Protection System stops online identity theft, viruses, hackers, bots, spyware, Trojan horses, and more without slowing you down or getting in your way.

Parental control, also known as URL Filtering or web filtering software, is a term for software designed and optimized for controlling what content is permitted to children, especially when it is used to restrict material delivered over the Web. As rule, Parental control determines what content will be available for children in accordance with restrictions applied by a parent and helps parents to monitor the Internet activities of their children.

The motive is often to prevent children from viewing harmful Web content like phonographic, violation, drug, gambling and more. Some Parental control software includes time control functions that empowers parents to set the amount of time that child may spend accessing the Internet or playing games or other computer activities.

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As you probably know, the main objective of security software is to protect and ensure the safety of information, computer systems or computer networks from theft, vandalism, damage, loss and other potential hazards. Of course, security software is not the only solution to protect a computer system, but in my opinion, namely security software plays a crucial role in securing and maintaining the confidentiality of personal computers.

I think the problem is that unlike the corporate computers, personal computers are not adequately protected against Internet threats, since not all users are good professionals in the field of information security, often ignored the rules of computer security and many other security flaws that are not present in corporate networks. And if, in most instances for corporate computers the main threat are insiders, then for personal computers — Network security threats.

As a rule, to protect personal computer against Network threats helps security software, such as antivirus, anti-spam, firewall, anti-spyware and others — as multi-application security suite or standalone software. And despite the fact that this class of programs provides a malware, spyware, phishing, spam and vulnerability protection, they cannot protect against these threats if the user does not comply with the rules of computer security and ignores the recommendations of experts.

Following an industry conference, I find it a good practice for me to reflect back on what I learned and observed and see how I can apply it to my current work. At the conference there is so much to learn and take in, so I find it helps to let it all marinate for a bit of time and then I can start to uncover the new learning once I’m back at my desk and away from the conference buzz. It’s now been nearly two weeks since BlackHat wrapped up and these are the topics and observations from the conference that have been swilling around in my head. I hope to explore these thoughts more with my industry colleagues and find my way to contribute to improving security industry best practices.

The Black Hat Briefings are a series of highly technical information security conferences that bring together thought leaders from all facets of the infosec world – from the corporate and government sectors to academic and even underground researchers. The environment is strictly vendor-neutral and focused on the sharing of practical insights and timely, actionable knowledge. Black Hat remains the best and biggest event of its kind, unique in its ability to define tomorrow’s information security landscape.

In addition to the large number of short, topical presentations in the Briefings, Black Hat also provides hands-on, high-intensity, multi-day Trainings. The Training sessions are provided by some of the most respected experts in the world and many also provide formal certifications to qualifying attendees. Arrangements can also be made to bring Black Hat’s trainers to your location for private and customized training.

The Network Security Map lets you view the details of the computers that you remotely monitor. You can view the following details:

You can view the status of your wireless network in the Network Security Map window. The Network Security Map displays the status of your wireless network as secure or not secure. A secure network requires a strong wireless encryption. If your wireless network is not secure, you can turn on encryption on your wireless router.

The Network Security Map window lists the devices that are connected to your network. You can remove a device or a computer from the Network Security Map. You can purge all devices from the Network Map and create a new list of devices.

For example, you can purge all the devices that were present in your previous network before you connect to a new network. Ensure that you disable Remote Monitoring before you purge the Network Map. Norton Internet Security cannot purge the Network Map when the Remote Monitoring is turned on. Also, ensure that you close the Network Security Map window before you purge the Network Map. You cannot purge the Network Map when the Network Security Map window is open.

The trust level determines the default level of access that devices on your network have to your computer. Any device on your network that is not explicitly Trusted or Restricted uses the trust level of your network. The initial network trust level is set based on the configuration of your computer.

The trust level of a device also depends on the trust level of its network. When you change the trust level of a network, Norton Internet Security assigns the same trust level to all the devices that are connected to that network. However, Norton Internet Security does not change the trust level of the devices that you individually trust or restrict.

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You can view the details and change the name of your network in the Edit Network Details window.

You can change the name and category of a device that is available on the Network Security Map. You can select the categories such as Generic Device, Laptop, Media Device, or Game Console.

You cannot change the category of the device that you added manually. By default, Norton Internet Security displays the category of the manually added device as USER DEFINED.

The Network Security Map window displays different icons, depending on the category that you select. Icons help you to identify the devices that are listed in the Network Map.

You can find a computer's IP address in various ways. On Windows 2000/XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 computers, you can use Ipconfig to find the IP address of a computer.

Ipconfig reports the IP address of its local computer only. You must run this program on the computer that you want to identify.

You can manually add a computer or device to the Network Security Map.

The Network Security Map finds any computers that are connected to your network. However, you can add the computers and the devices that are currently not connected.

Norton Internet Security adds to the Trust Control network all the devices that you manually add to Network Security Map. You can select the Trust Control network in the Network Details drop-down list to view the devices that you added. You can also edit the name of the device.

When you turn off Remote Monitoring, you stop remote monitoring of the computers that are connected to your network.

You can turn off Remote Monitoring for the following:

You can set up Remote Monitoring by allowing computers on your network to communicate with your computer.

Norton Internet Security requires a Passkey to set up Remote Monitoring. You must type the same Passkey for all the computers that you want to remotely monitor.

The Network Security Map window provides a pictorial representation of the devices on the network to which your computer is connected. You can view the details of each device before you set up Remote Monitoring.

The Network Security Map window also provides the security status of the following computers:

A home network typically consists of the computers and other devices that share your Internet connection. The Network Security Map helps you view and manage your network.

After installation, Norton Internet Security automatically detects the devices that are connected to your network and lists them in the Network Security Map. You can view devices and customize the Network Security Map to remotely monitor the computers on which a Norton product is installed.