Automated Anti-Virus Deployment

摘要

NATO Undersea Research Centre (SACLANTCEN), the research establishment of the Allied Command Transformation (ACT) strongly relies on Network Centric technologies and capabilities to improve the effectiveness of its scientific research. This requires architectures for the interconnection and data sharing that are flexible, scalable, and built on open standards, to ensure transparent interoperability between shore laboratories (both NATO and national) and assets located at sea (research vessels, buoys, autonomous vehicles, sensors and acquisition systems), all connected using a wide range of communications media (e.g. SATCOM, wireless at-hoc networks, acoustical undersea communications). In addition, to fulfill its mission, SACLANTCEN has an extensive cooperation program with scientists and researchers, consultants and contractors, civil and military personnel coming from several NATO nations. It is a common requirement for them to be connected to the Intranet and to the external Internet. During at-sea experiments, and whenever a joint research or partnership requires it, computers coming from several external (national and non- national) networks need to be connected to our network, and be able to exchange and share data sets with staff members computers. External collaborators and visitors also need to keep in contact with their home laboratories or institutes, using the Internet to exchange emails or files. Staff members make large use of Internet to perform their daily duties. The use of Internet is encouraged to distribute information to enhance SACLANTCEN business and visibility; the unclassified network, for this reason, is heavily used to exchange data with external world through Mail, HTTP, FTP transfers. Also the use of Internet is necessary to download security patches for CIS systems, and allows the automatic update of anti-virus signatures.