Secure Network Systems Limited

Profile

Introduction

Over the last few years the IT Security threat landscape has changed from the days of the lone, unsociable male teenager to a fully thriving business run and sponsored by illegal organisations, foreign countries an indeed by some companies against their competitors. These security intrusions are successfully used to steal intellectual copyright materials, identities, customer details and just about anything that can be stored in a digital format on any device that is connected to the Internet.

Even more worrying is that these so called Black Hats now boast to have the power of many tens of thousands of remotely controlled BOT machines that can be sold to the highest bidder and called on at anytime to either cause damage, harvest information or be used as a password cracking network grid without any of the owners even being aware or indeed being logged. The attacks that emanate from these remote Bot Networks can be used to knock out multiple web sites, act as spoof banking websites for phishing scams or collect information with a very long audit trail that is typically International and therefore could take months or years to unravel by which time the perpetrators have long gone, taken revenue and customers away and evolved into the next new threat.

This network of BOT Grids comprise of computers of the business community and home users that have connection to the Internet, some at almost 10Mbps Ethernet rate and are geographically dispersed. The basic firewalls by default are designed to protect at the ingress point not at the egress point and again users are typically unaware that their PC has been infected and have remote control software hidden on them.

The view of SNS is that there should be a government style health warning on all Internet connected equipment, especially aimed at the director/board level:

You and your organisations IT Assets are at constant risk.
Protect your corporate data for all it is worth.
The Data locker in the vault of your IT infrastructure is your Treasure.
Your IT and Network assets need the same consideration as securing your home

At the same time, organisations need to ensure that they do not inadvertently help the attackers by driving down a well publicised security policy from upper management to all users together with a fair use policy whereby users can access certain websites at particular times of the day.

To help with the deployment of the security policy there are a plethora of Universal Threat Management devices or standalone products that have successfully been deployed to counter the past, present and day zero threats and minimise the risk of downtime on production systems, offering cost effective, rapid detection and overall protection with ease of use.

SNS continuously partners with security vendors and the distribution channels to offer the best of breed products to meet with the customers’ Security strategy and budgets for both large and small companies alike to ensure that they have the upper hand when dealing with these and future attacks.

Vinod Patel
Secure Network Systems Limited

Mission

SNS Professional Services

Secure Network Systems approach is to analyse the current IT security, threat landscape and security compliance needs related to your business critical IT infrastructure and then suggest ways of strategically improving their vulnerabilities, either with the use of the best in breed of Universal Threat Management appliances, or just simply by awareness training and good security practices by means of strict adherence to a security policy across the whole organisation and partner companies.

In the eyes of SNS, IT security not as just a conglomeration of firewalls, Spam Filters, Intrusion Prevention, or UTM hardware, as the be all and end all, but as tools for compliance to a well publicised and practiced corporate Security Policy driven down by upper management and supported by the IT Staff and ultimately by the end users.

SNS consultants have a minimum of fifteen years specifically in the IT Industry and have the appropriate level of knowledge, experience, skills and accreditations to deliver complete secure solutions for large multinational corporations all the way through to small and medium organisations. They will carry out a site survey of the environment and the equipment to identify and help in the design and implementation to counter the flaws in the whole Network or indeed in the corporate IT Security policy and practices.

SNS services include:

• Develop the customers’ Corporate IT Security Strategy and regulatory compliance
• Help deploy the Security Strategy and implement Security “Best Practices”
• Help arm customers implement Universal Threat Management devices to detect and react to various attacks, including viruses, spyware, data theft, intrusions, etc.
• Audit, Baseline and carry out Risk assessment of the IT Infrastructure
• Patching servers and clients to the latest levels
• Firewalls and other UTM’s inspection to ensure correct configuration, patches and logs
• Good Password management, including tokens and other tools
• Ensuring that only users that “need to know” have access to secure servers
• Critical files are encrypted with sufficient strength keys
• Similarly that backup software also has some level of encryption and are securely stored
• Ensuring that critical processes aren’t carried out by individuals, but are carried out in tandem
• Create or audit Business Continuity Plan / Disaster Recovery Plan
• Application Assessment and Testing
• Secure Network management and Monitoring
• Network Architecture design and implementation
• Augment existing security staff
• Virtual Lab for demonstrating functionality and proof of concept (via SNS partners)
• Penetration testing (via a SNS Partner)
• Forensic Investigation (via a SNS Partner)

Engineering Support and Training

SNS can supply engineers, either on site or offer a remotely logged in to customers Networks with a view to keep these Networks fully patched and “locked down”. This service can be delivered in a bespoke manner or with SNS Security days when an Engineer is allocated to support the clients for, say every month, freeing the IT department of the need for a security expert to be on site.

SNS and its partner companies can offer training for all of the products in this brochure either with a fully trained and accredited engineer or on an individual basis to ensure in-depth knowledge transfer.

SNS Engineering Support Options

SNS Engineering support services contracts give peace of mind and technical support over the telephone and email support giving unlimited Technical assistance at three levels: Bronze, Silver and Gold.

• Bronze

From 9:00 AM to 5:30PM Monday to Friday excluding public and bank holidays. All calls have an SLA of 4 hours.

• Silver

From 8:00 AM to 8:00PM Monday to Friday excluding public and bank holidays. All calls have an SLA of 4 hours. All calls are strictly acknowledged and an engineer will be available for on-site attendance in some cases after the 4 hours have elapsed. This is flexible depending on the proximity of the problem and the availability of engineers.

• Gold

Gold Support is a bespoke service that is tailored to specific customer requirements enabling SNS to offer bespoke pre-arranged unique response times for onsite engineering support.

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Contact Information

Address:

Secure Network Systems Limited
81, Imperial Drive

Harrow
HA2 7DU
UK

Phone Number:

0208 150 9186

Fax Number:

Email Address:

sales@securenetworksystems.co.uk