HP Sygate Security Agent User Guide
logs: Files that store information generated by an application, service, or operating system. The information is used to track the operations performed. Sygate Secure Enterprise provides extensive logging capabilities that track events such as security violations, changes to security policies, network traffic, client connections, and administrator activities.
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MAC address: A vendor’s Media Access Control hardware address that identifies computers, servers, routers, or other network devices. See also
MAC Spoofing: Intruders use a technique called MAC (media access control) spoofing to hack into a victim’s computer by using the MAC address of another computer to send an ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) response packet to the victim even though the victim did not send an ARP request. The victim host renews the internal ARP table using the malicious ARP response packet. See also
multicast: Sending a message simultaneously to more than one destination on a network. See also broadcast, unicast.
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NetBIOS protection: An option on the Management Server that blocks all communication from computers located outside a client’s local subnet range. NetBIOS traffic is blocked on UDP ports 88, 137, and 138 and TCP ports 135, 139, 445, and 1026. See also subnet.
network adapter: A device that connects a computer to a network.
network interface card (NIC): A device that is installed in a computer that provides the ability to communicate with other connected devices on the network.
network settings: Settings that determine the Location of an Agent attempting to gain access to the network. Network settings can check by MAC or IP address, DNS server IP address, WINS Server IP address, IP range, Sygate Management Server connection, and type of connection (VPN or
ntoskrnl.exe: NT Kernel & System, a standard Windows service that initializes the kernel and drivers needed during a session.
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