13 Security Essentials

To have confidence in its reliability and effectiveness, Network Security must be much more than a firewall or a one-time, off-the-shelf purchase. Simple, install-and-forget firewall appliances, readily available at many retail outlets, address only a few of the very necessary security essentials listed below (usually Nos. 1, 5, 6 and 9 to very limited degree).

Managed Network Security’s approach strives to manage all levels of Internet security with preemptive strategies. Its perimeter security solution incorporates an Intelligent Perimeter Security Appliance with a sophisticated Security Operations Center and Experienced Security Professionals to deliver the 13 Network Security Essentials below.

  1. Protection – Globally tested safeguards using current, industry-leading tools; patented stateful packet inspection from Check Point Software; the best authentication methods; the strongest encryption; compliance with complete inbound and outbound security rules.
  2. Inspection – Security extension beyond allowing or disallowing communication to pass into or out of your network; this essential security measure intelligently interprets the communication streams, allowing the good and stopping the bad.
  3. Cleaning – Ability to remove bad communication content such as e-mail viruses and SPAM as well as risky website file downloads.
  4. Filtering – Ability to filter undesirable website access by category as well as filter out e-mail content, words, phrases.
  5. Connections – Secure, reliable, flexible connections (VPNs) between sites; from a traveling user to a site, or from a browser to a site.
  6. Encryption – Current, global, industry-standard mathematical methods of encoding and decoding information so that it can be securely transmitted across a public channel.
  7. Management - Centralized control, configuration, updates, licensing, and tracking allowing security professionals the (economies of scale ?) to deliver cost effective, essential performance.
  8. Updates – "The cornerstone of security", the process of keeping ahead of the mischievous with constant improvements and modifications to hardware, software, and configuration.
  9. Logging – Ability to track and record security events from inbound attacks to undesirable outbound communications, e-mail, website interactions, as well as site to site communication.
  10. Reviewing – Meticulous process of analyzing logs for undesirable behavior, process done by credentialed, experienced security professionals.
  11. Reporting – Written synopsis of security behavior to establish baselines, trends, correlate events, meet regulatory requirements, maintain historical records, support incident tracking, and document corrective measures.
  12. Monitoring – 24x7x365 system operational status observation to ensure that all other Security Essentials are functioning properly.
  13. Alerting – 24x7x365 system notification of a critical-event occurrence in order that it can be immediately addressed.