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Core Networks & Data Center Security

As the leading provider of core network and data-centre security solutions, Computrad have both the Global experience and presence to deliver end to end security solutions across all types of organisations and businesses. We understand the criticality of application security and service availability across our customer’s networks, from simple service point delivery to complex multi-national deployments integrating disparate systems and driving business operations.

Computrad focus on delivering solutions to clients that adopt proven and latest technologies based on best practices.

There has been an increase of 90% of reported web attacks in the last year. Business critical data such as financial records, credit card numbers, social security numbers, customer records, and employee data are all examples of sensitive information that demands privacy and security.

Gartner have stated that over 75% of targeted attacks are now targeted at the application layer level. Therefore traditional firewalls are no longer capable of detecting and preventing such threats.

Most Common Vulnerabilities

The US Department of Defence states that every 1000 lines of code in an application, there is on average 15 critical security defects. A further study by the Pentagon concluded that each security defect takes 75 minutes to diagnose and 6 hours to fix. An average business application has 150,000 to 250,000 lines of code (Software Magazine). Based on these figures the following calculations demonstrate the investment of time and costs to resolve:

15 * 6hrs * 250k/40 = 560 weeks
15 * 6hrs * 150k/40 = 70 weeks

Constant Re-Engineering Not Viable

You may not be able to fix some code
- You do not own some of the code you run
- Legacy applications have been webified
Application security skills vary acorss developers
- Skill sets, personal allocation, human error
"Fixing the code" addresses issues in current snapshot of application

Application Change can introduce new security defects

Sprawl Is Not The Answer

Despite efforts to regain visibility and control by adding more security appliances, most organizations remain stymied – unacceptably. IT security staffs have added a variety of devices around the firewall to attempt to regain control of their networks, including:

Intrusion detection systems/intrusion prevention systems
Proxies
URL filters
DLP devices
Web antivirus devices
IM security devices

Not only do these devices not solve the problem, they drive up complexity and cost – which, in today’s economic climate, is simply unacceptable.

The Challenges:

Provide application layer security
Dependence on mission-critical Web-based applications
Ability to monitor and report on threats and user activity
Prevent business data leakage
Achieve PCI DSS compliance and maintain
Provide granular control of application usage (e.g. Allow Instant Messaging, but disable file transfer)
Reduce surface area for potential attacks
Manage numerous security appliances and products
Reduce IT expenditures while increasing security and performance

Key benefits include:

Provides high availability for any application infrastructure
Protects application availability with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack defences
Intrusion protection blocks Web-based worms and application attacks
Efficient traffic management optimizes server infrastructure
Highly integrated appliance reduces number of data path devices
L4-7 traffic management and security
Buffer Overflow Protection
Recognizes applications regardless of port, protocol, SSL, port-evasiveness
Recognizes users not just by IP address but also integrate with Active Directory
Identify threats such as viruses, malware, spyware, worms, Trojans
Protect your network in real time, at a multi-gigabit level with no degradation to performance
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) protection
SQL Injection protection
FIPS-140-2 Level 2 Compliant models
Low-latency, multi-Gbps solutions
Application Visibility & Control
Simplify PCI Compliance
Data Leak Prevention

Customer Issues

Do you have the Following Issues on your Networks ?

Solutions

Computrad offers the following solutions focused on Application Optimisation, Security and Virtualisation

Services

Computrad offers the full range of services around our specialised and focused niches.

Contact

Tel: +44 (0)208 997 9888
Email: sales@computrad.co.uk

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