Network Security

The threat to modern businesses from network-based criminals is large and growing. It can come from individuals or groups based anywhere in the world, including in your own offices. They are after your commercial secrets, Customer credit-card details or they are just out to embarrass you. They might try to deny your services to your Customers or use your systems to attack others. Their motivation might be financial, revenge or just thrill-seeking. It still costs you!

Network security is a complex topic. It requires an in-depth understanding of many aspects of computing, including operating systems, network protocols, network devices and applications. Large organisations can afford the continuous training necessary to ensure their IT staff are up to date in the latest hacker attack methods. For smaller companies the costs are often prohibitive so they either ignore the issue or out-source it. We can help by working along side your IT team, to protect your network, or by taking over the complete management of your network systems. Network security is a core competence of Stochastic Systems. We specialise in:

• Firewall management, where we take over the configuration of your firewall.
• Intrusion Detection, identifying if your network has been penetrated and interpreting what data, if any, has been lost.
• Emergency Response, to assist your IT team to recover from a penetration and secure the entry points.
• Virus eradication, where we will assist your IT team to remove any viruses found on your network.
• Auditing, where we review your complete information security posture and produce a non-technical executive summary and an actionable technical report.

To discuss your requirements in more detail, in confidence, please contact us.