Firewall Management

Your company firewall is your first line of defence against an external hacker. It is important that it has the appropriate assurance level for the data it is protecting. There are free firewalls that can be downloaded from the Internet and there are military-grade systems that can be very costly. The main difference is the assurance level, and therefore the confidence that the firewall is doing its job correctly, namely keeping your secrets in and hackers out.

As well as the assurance level, the other key issue with firewalls is miss-configuration. It frequently occurs that an expensive firewall, whilst effectively blocking one type of attack, is wide open to another. This is usually because of their complexity and the difficulty of understanding all the interactions of the firewall commands.

We can advise on and supply the best type of firewall for your organisation. In addition we can

• Manage your firewall, taking responsibility for its configuration and ensuring that its patches are up to date, leaving your IT team to deal with the day-to-day user issues.
• Test your existing firewall configuration, to highlight its weaknesses, ensuring that it is correctly configured.
• Undertake penetration testing with appropriate approval from your senior management team.
• Assist in the analysis of firewall logs

To discuss your requirements in detail please contact us.