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Network Security

Safeguarding your network is a critical aspect of securing your business in today’s digital society. Content Security will help protect you, your data and your reputation with a range of network security solutions.

What is Network Security?

Today's corporate network architecture is vast and complex, requiring protection from the core to the edge

Network security refers to the many hardware and software solutions designed and implemented to protect the integrity, confidentiality and availability of your network and data. Ultimately, this range of security tools work to keep your network and data accessible and protected from the many cyber threats in today’s evolving business landscape. We can help secure your network with a range of security solutions, such as Security Information Event Management (SIEM) and Security Operations Centre (SOC), as well as Extended Detection and Response (XDR).

Why is network security so important?

These days, no network is immune to cyber attacks and security incidents – no matter how big or small your business is, or the industry you fall under. A compromised network can put your business at risk of failure and faulty security systems can seriously impact the integrity of your organisation. Taking the necessary precautionary measures to protect and maintain a stable and efficient network security system is of the utmost importance, helping to protect your data, clients and reputation.
SIEM

Expert design, deployment and configuration for a range of technologies

As an IT security integration and consultancy firm with over 21 years in the industry, we’ve worked with a vast array of technology partners

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Our team is filled with seasoned professionals, each brandishing a myriad of qualifications and product knowledge certifications. We’re able to deliver in-depth support for a wide range of systems, devices and platforms, reducing the overall cost of planning and implementing your security architecture.

Our engineers follow global and vendor best practices for all projects, maximising the value of your security solutions from initial deployment and allowing you to achieve a better security posture. We tailor our implementations to your unique business and industry needs, ensuring the solution is scaled to your profile and allows for flexibility.

We deliver a range of Network Security solutions

We're able to deliver network protection in an ad-hoc or managed approach

We know there’s no one-size-fits-all in cyber security. We also understand that as a trusted partner to many, we have the responsibility to provide well-informed, consultative services backed by unbiased market and brand research. That’s why we always scour the full marketplace and tailor strategic solutions to each business’ needs, partnering with the top technology vendors to deliver the best possible outcomes for our clients. We partner with a variety of technology vendors to deliver the following solutions at the network level: 

Extended Detection and Response (XDR)

Extended Detection and Response (XDR) can be seen as an evolution of EDR, taking a more proactive, holistic approach. XDR broadens the scope of detection beyond endpoints and analyses the data across your endpoints, networks, servers, cloud and more.

  • Enhanced – or extended – protection, detection and response capabilities across a variety of domains.
  • Consolidates all data and threat information under a single view for deeper and more cohesive visibility.
  • Enables your security team to expose threats across any security layer and analyse how attacks happen.

Firewalls

Firewalls refer to security applications that defend the boundary between a private and a public network. They prevent unwanted and suspicious data from entering the network by scanning and examining each data packet. Benefits of firewalls include:

  • Monitor incoming and outgoing traffic, with detection and protection against malicious content.
  • Prevents keyloggers from stealing PINs and passwords.
  • Detect and prevent trojan attacks,

Multi-Factor Authentication

Multi-factor authentication (MFA), also referred to as two-factor authentication (2FA), is a security technology that requires multiple methods of authentication to verify a user's identity. It combines something you know, with something you have and something you are. For example, MFA may require a password in conjunction with a SMS-token. Benefits of MFA:

  • Minimises the risks associated with poor password hygiene.
  • Helps you comply with the Essential Eight.
  • Increases security with third-parties and within your organisation.

Network Forensics

Network forensics is a subset of Digital Forensics that is concerned with the collection and analysis of network traffic. It is particularly important in the event of a cyber-attack, as it allows you to monitor and investigate activity across network-based applications like email, instant messaging, web browsing and more.

  • Captures forensic evidence to help streamline your Incident Response process.
  • Assists forensic investigators in determining the type of cyber attack occurring, and further tracing attackers’ steps.

Network Access Control

Network Access Control (NAC) technologies enable organisations to implement policies for controlling access to corporate infrastructure via user-oriented and IoT devices. NAC can deny network access to non-compliant devices, place in them quarantined areas or give them restricted access to computing resources. Benefits of NAC include:

  • Increased and centralised visibility across your network.
  • Enhanced network performance.
  • Reducing cyber threats, especially those relating to IoT and BYOD.

Privileged Access Management

Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions help to condense your organisation’s attack surface and minimise the risk of both internal and external attacks. They provide you with control over privileged access and permissions for a variety of users, accounts and processes. Benefits of PAM include:

  • Allows you to restrict privileged access to your critical data, assets and credentials.
  • Enables your organisation to meet compliance requirements by actively managing access and permissions.

SOC and SIEM

  • A Security Operations Centre (SOC) is a centralised facility that houses an information security team. This team is responsible for monitoring and analysing enterprise systems, defending against breaches and proactively identifying and mitigating security risks.
  • Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) is the foundational technology of a SOC. SIEM software collects log and event data from your applications, devices, network, systems etc. to draw analysis and provide a holistic view of your IT security

SSL VPN and Secure Application Delivery

A Secure Sockets Layer Virtual Private Network (SSL VPN) enables remote users to access an organisation's web applications, network, client-server apps etc. without the need for specialised client software. They allow for safe communication across all device traffic, including public and private networks. For thick applications, we recommend Security Application Delivery. These appliances run the application on-premises in virtual machines. Sensitive data never leaves the corporate network and the application remains quick and secure. Attackers on a compromised device can’t tunnel back into the corporate network.

Virtualisation Security

Virtualisation security (also known as security virtualisation) refers to software-based security solutions that are designed to work within and protect a virtualised IT environment. It encompasses a broad range of security technologies and processes, such as monitoring workloads, applications and access to virtual machines. Benefits of virtualised security include:

  • Improving physical security by reducing the number of hardware in the environment.
  • Allows you to isolate VMs and applications, thus minimising the spread and impact of an attack.

Web Filtering

Web Filtering technologies, like secure web gateways (SWGs) stop users from viewing certain URLs or websites and prevent their browsers from loading pages from these sites. These solutions are an important first line of defence against web-based attacks and help monitor user web activity. Benefits of web filtering include:

  • Minimising the risk of malware infections.
  • Protection against exploit kits.
  • Restricted access to social media leads to increased staff productivity.

Looking to understand the effectiveness of your existing controls? We’ll help determine the gaps you need to close in order to improve your security posture

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Think of our security controls review as a technical gap analysis, highlighting opportunities for improvement within your security solutions

Our security controls reviews provide you with the necessary visibility to truly understand the state of your current controls and where more attention is needed. Once we identify gaps in your existing technology, we take a practical, cost-efficient approach and finetune it prior to suggesting additional investments.From there, we are better suited to making prioritised recommendations, helping you to reduce risk while building defence-in-depth.

Is a solution you’re looking for not listed above?

There are so many security technologies available today, and the market only continues to grow. We work with dozens of security vendors to deliver a wide range of tech, but with ever expanding product toolsets, a few solutions might’ve slipped through the cracks.

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