Firewalls and edge services

The IT industry used to typify hackers as teenagers with a with to gain notoriety. This is no longer the case as organised crime has taken over as the primary source of security breaches.

When you add theft from employees, virus outbreaks and sensitive data leakage, it becomes very difficult to create and maintain the physical and logical protection and also the culture and formal policies needed to mitigate any possible threats.

Firewalls and Edge (sometimes know as perimemter) security servers and devices are amongst the most important areas of your network infrastructure and yet are often under funded, incorrectly implemented and maintained or just overlooked altogether once they are installed.

Traditionally firewall s and edge security were almost exclusively linked to large and often publicly accessible networks to keep the hackers out. We've all seen the films Wargames and Hackers right? Times have changed and now almost every machine in your company is hooked up to the internet one way or another and as such becomes in theory, publicly accessible. With this in mind it's now more important than ever that these machines and your networks, are equipped to protect themselves and whatever else is connected from malicious attack.

Let us ask you one question. When was the last time as an Administrator you were alerted by email or any other method that your company firewall was being attacked? Over half the people we ask that question to tell us that they don't receive those alerts at all. They simply work on faith the box is 'doing what its meant to'.

An entirley reactive approach to firewall management can leave you exposed in a very hostile environment. We can help you design and more importantly test secure systems that won't let you down.

We've partnered with the best security providers available and we've tested their products until we're completely happy that they'll withstand a cyber onslaught, to ensure our customers networks are secure and can provide solutions to the ever changing landscape of IT security.