Network Security is an organization’s strategy and provisions for ensuring the security of its assets and of all network traffic. Network security is manifested in an implementation of security policy, hardware, and software. For the purposes of this discussion, the following approach is adopted in an effort to view network security in its entirety:
Confidentiality - involves the protection of assets from unauthorized entities
Integrity - ensuring the modification of assets is handled in a specified and authorized manner
Availability - a state of the system in which authorized users have continuous access to said assets.
The concept of defense in depth is observed as a best practice in network security, prescribing for the network to be secured in layers. These layers apply an assortment of security controls to sift out threats trying to enter the network:
Providing CIA of network traffic flows was difficult to accomplish with previous technologies. Traditional firewalls were plagued by controls that relied on port/protocol to identify applications—which have since developed evasive characteristics to bypass the controls—and the assumption that IP address equates to a user’s identity.
Cloud for Network provide UTMs and Next Generation Firewalls, deliver enterprise-class network security with stateful inspection firewall, VPN and IPS, offering the Human Layer 8 identity-based controls and Layer 7 application visibility and controls. Cloud for Network ensures high levels of network security, network connectivity, continuous availability and secure remote access with controlled network access to road warriors, telecommuters, partners, customers.
- Policy
- Enforcement
- Auditing
- Policy
- Enforcement
Confidentiality - involves the protection of assets from unauthorized entities
Integrity - ensuring the modification of assets is handled in a specified and authorized manner
Availability - a state of the system in which authorized users have continuous access to said assets.
The concept of defense in depth is observed as a best practice in network security, prescribing for the network to be secured in layers. These layers apply an assortment of security controls to sift out threats trying to enter the network:
- Access control
- Identification
- Authentication
- Malware detection
- Encryption
- File type filtering
- URL filtering
- Content filtering
Providing CIA of network traffic flows was difficult to accomplish with previous technologies. Traditional firewalls were plagued by controls that relied on port/protocol to identify applications—which have since developed evasive characteristics to bypass the controls—and the assumption that IP address equates to a user’s identity.
Cloud for Network provide UTMs and Next Generation Firewalls, deliver enterprise-class network security with stateful inspection firewall, VPN and IPS, offering the Human Layer 8 identity-based controls and Layer 7 application visibility and controls. Cloud for Network ensures high levels of network security, network connectivity, continuous availability and secure remote access with controlled network access to road warriors, telecommuters, partners, customers.