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Denial! - Call PBM IT at (888) 233-6471The Cisco Secure Network Foundation helps small and medium-sized businesses control costs in two ways: first, by avoiding the unnecessary costs associated with security breaches; and second, by using multifunction, affordable integrated security components that grow with businesses as their needs change. Integrated security simplifies network management and maintenance costs, reducing the total cost of network ownership. Network security breaches have both obvious and hidden costs. For example, many security breaches, such as relatively innocuous viruses, cause little damage, and the obvious costs associated with them are the time and resources spent cleaning them off infected business systems. Costs rise with the number of infected systems, making protection and quick detection a money-saving endeavor. Less obvious costs include work time lost while employees’ infected computers are being cleaned. Examples of hidden costs include lost opportunities, lost customers, diminished business reputations, or legal costs associated with security breaches. These costs, while less common, can be very large. Last year online crime cost British business. The Cisco Secure Network Foundation solution helps businesses avoid both the obvious and hidden costs associated with security breaches, reducing business risk, and increasing credibility and customer confidence. Small and medium-sized businesses do not have the staff resources or capital budgets to deploy and maintain complex security solutions. The Cisco Secure Network Foundation is secure, reliable, and simple, reducing their total cost of network ownership so organizations can focus on their business, not on their networks. It easily adapts to changing business needs and security conditions, making sure costs stay in line with business growth. Cisco Integrated Security on the Next-Generation ISR (1) Delivers suite of built-in capabilities, including firewall, intrusion prevention, VPN, and content filtering, (2) Promotes integrating new network security features on existing routers, (3) Provides additional protection without adding hardware and maximizes network security, and (4) Decreases ongoing support and manageability costs by reducing the total number of devices required. VPN Services for Cisco ASA Series (1) Provides remote end-user access for up to 10,000 SSL or true IPsec connections, (2) Supports applications and functions unavailable to a clientless, browser-based VPN connection, (3) Allows users to connect to IPv6 resources over IPv4 network tunnels, Nd (4) Facilitates creating user profiles and defining names and addresses of host. The data diddler is likely the worst sort, since the fact of a break-in might not be immediately obvious. Perhaps he's toying with the numbers in your spreadsheets, or changing the dates in your projections and plans. Maybe he's changing the account numbers for the auto-deposit of certain paychecks. In any case, rare is the case when you'll come in to work one day, and simply know that something is wrong. An accounting procedure might turn up a discrepancy in the books three or four months after the fact. Trying to track the problem down will certainly be difficult, and once that problem is discovered, how can any of your numbers from that time period be trusted? How far back do you have to go before you think that your data is safe? Message replay involves the re-use of captured data at a later time than originally intended in order to repeat some action of benefit to the attacker: For example, the capture and replay of an instruction to transfer funds from a bank account into one under the control of an attacker. This could be foiled by confirmation of the freshness of a message. Ensure that security policy accurately reflects the organization needs. The policy must be used as a baseline for comparison with testing results. Without appropriate policy, the usefulness of testing is drastically limited. For example, discovering that a firewall permits the flow of certain types of traffic may be irrelevant if there is no policy that states what type of traffic or what type of network activity is permitted. When there is a policy, testing results can be used to improve the policy. Ensure that system and network administrators are trained and capable. Security testing must be performed by capable and trained staff. Often, individuals recruited for this task are already involved in system administration. While system administration is an increasingly complex task, the numbers of trained system administrators generally has not kept pace with the increase in computing systems. Competent system administration may be the most important security measure an organization can employ, and organizations should ensure they possess a sufficient number with the required skill level to perform system administration and security testing correctly. A one-time password (OTP) is a password that is only valid for a single login session or transaction. OTPs avoid a number of shortcomings that are associated with traditional (static) passwords. The most important shortcoming that is addressed by OTPs is that, in contrast to static passwords, they are not vulnerable to replay attacks. This means that, if a potential intruder manages to record an OTP that was already used to log into a service or to conduct a transaction, he will not be able to abuse it since it will be no longer valid. Deploy Comprehensive Network Security: Cisco adaptive security appliances integrate industry-leading firewalls, unified communications security , VPN technology, intrusion prevention, and content security in a unified platform to (1) Stop attacks before they penetrate the network perimeter, (2) Protect resources and data, as well as voice, video, and multimedia traffic, (3) Control network and application activity, and (4) Reduce deployment and operational costs. he Cisco Works Network Compliance Manager (NCM) is a possible solution for Cisco based network (commercial, not free). NCM tracks compliance with a broad variety of regulatory, IT, corporate governance, and technology best practices. It has a sophisticated search capability. |
