Firewalls

How We Can Help

Today's networks are vastly more secure than they were five or even 10 years ago. Thanks to security gradually becoming a topic of conversation among IT professionals, basic protections such as a firewall are commonplace in enterprise networks. These pivotal devices are key to potecting your assets and information and must be managed properly in order to remain effective.

Most people know that a firewall keeps out bad traffic and only lets in good traffic. But do you understand the importance of rule ordering or denying traffic by default? Is your firewall blocking inbound traffic but allowing everything out to the Internet?

Like a car, a firewall needs care and maintenance if you expect it to perform and last. Let our professionals work with you to ensure your firewall is properly maintained. Some of the tasks we perform include:

• Hardware and policy design, installation and configuration
• VPN setup, management and troubleshooting
• Patch management
• Support contract maintenance
• Rule autiting (Contact us for a free firewall audit and report)
• Monitoring
• Hardware upgrades
• Configuration changes
• Network planning
• Performance and availability
• Custom reporting
• Incident handling
• Log review

How We Can Help

Management

It's a common scenario where over the years, rules have been continuously added with little regard to modifying existing rules. This is primarily due to carelessness or trying to get too much done in too little time. If that sounds familiar, don't worry - you are not alone. We can help you for a one-time engagement or you can free up resources by allowing us to provide continuous management of your firewall infrastructure.

If you can't answer the following questions it may be a good time to contact us for assistance:

• Is your firewall overloaded?
• Are the number of rules slowing your firewall down?
• When was the last time you audited your rulebase?
• Is your firewall fully patched?
• Do you have a current and valid support agreement for your firewall?
• Are you blocking outbound traffic by default?
• Would your firewall prevent a worm from spreading?
• Are you using your firewall logs to watch for suspicious activity?

Monitoring

Most people are surprised to hear about a little known benefit to having a firewall: They are treasure troves of information. That is, provided it is properly configured for logging. Antivirus and intrusion detection systems heavily rely on signatures. What about an attack that doesn't yet have a signature? With firewall logs, a trained eye can detect a zero-day exploit running its course or an attacker trying to brute force a loing a login. Our seasoned and certified analysts can provide you with this insight at a fraction of the cost of the nearest competition, guaranteed.