# Intel® Packet Protect

Intel® Packet Protect is designed to protect the confidentiality and authenticity of IP traffic on your LAN.

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 unwanted users.

For example, employees retrieving confidential designs from a Research & Development department server use Packet Protect to encrypt the information while it travels on the LAN. Encryption protects the confidentiality of the information. Each employee's computer can also verify the integrity of the information upon receipt.

Packet Protect is available on the Intel CD in the PktPt folder.

## Packet Protect Features

Packet Protect enables you to:

- Protect confidentiality and authenticity of IP traffic on your LAN using Internet Protocol Security (IPSec), including Internet Key Exchange (IKE).
- Use Entrust Entelligence certificates to manage certificates, encryption, digital signatures, and other security issues on behalf of the user.
- Offload security tasks to an Intel® PRO/100 S Management or Server Adapter to optimize network performance.

## Complete Your Security Solution

If you need to protect data stored on a computer, use operating system features combined with Packet Protect. Packet Protect protects data traveling between computers, not while it's stored on a computer. You should use your operating system features or network infrastructure element to provide access control to certain areas of the computers on the network.

### Hardware Acceleration

Implementing an IPSec solution can increase CPU utilization for computers that use the IPSec software such as Packet Protect. 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 CPU.

You can combine Packet Protect with the use of an Intel PRO/100 S Management or Server Adapter to reduce CPU utilization. This frees CPU utilization for other tasks, while reducing the impact to network performance.

Click to view the Packet Protect User's Guide