New Security standards:

If your internal network runs critical functions, it's extremely important that you not let worms/viruses spread through it. Customers where:

• Billions of dollars of financial transactions ran over the WAN
• Safety critical industrial processes were co-coordinated in real time over the intranet
• Customer care was entirely dependent on the organizational network

If you are in this category, a future worm/virus could put your organization out of business, or even cause major loss.

A worm/virus could:

• Consume all bandwidth and prevent essential traffic from getting through.
• Compromise critical systems and prevent them operating.
• Damage important data, or even essential hardware.

We Can Help

A CNC consulting engagement can look at three aspects of the problem.

• How the organization depends on its networks
• Perimeter defenses to prevent worm entry (IDS/IPS).
• Worm containment measures to prevent a worm that gets a foothold on the inside from compromising the entire network.

We can help you:

• to understand quantitatively how vulnerable your network is to worm spread on different services.
• to understand how your existing internal defenses do or don't help to block worms.
• to put together an action plan to improve your internal worm containment, based on your existing equipment.

The focus of a consulting engagement is to help you understand the situation, as it is today and what you can do with what you already have to make your network more secure.

How do we do it?

We rely on knowing what services are open where on the network, what internal barriers and firewalls there are, and what your address space and network services are like. We scan the network to obtain this information. If it could, we look at what you can do to mitigate that – by Installing IDS/IPS, turning off services, using more VPNs internally, or using the filtering and traffic shaping capabilities of your network hardware.