Smarter Way To Protect Your Network
The business environment today is changing and IT executives are confronted by a range of security challenges. It is essential to understand each of these challenges in order to build an effective IT security infrastructure.
Opportunistic Predators:
For many people, the most visible and alarming threats are the Internet-borne worms. These attacks, while not specifically targeting your organization and systems, cause widespread disruption to business processes.
Targeted Attacks:
Targeted attacks are designed to compromise a specific organization with the goal of stealing intellectual property or disrupting business operations.
Regulatory Mandates:
Government agencies are defining acceptable and unacceptable uses for corporate information and imposing penalties when organizations fail to adhere to these rules.
New Mobile Technologies:
Mobile devices are an important part of the security spectrum and have changed how IT departments distinguish between trusted and untrusted devices. The issues are growing more serious with the widespread use of wireless handheld devices such as PDAs, Smart Phones and Blackberries.
The 5 C's Of Network Security
A true network security architecture addresses these challenges by embedding advanced security technologies within the network infra-structure.
- Continuity: A secure network provides uninterruptible and predictable business communication and includes the ability to withstand Denial of Service (DoS) attacks and adds self-protection mechanisms. Continuity is especially crucial for converged networks where a sustained attack could cause loss of both voice and data traffic.
- Context: A secure network understands the context of packet flows traversing the infrastructure and how these flows relate to normal and expected behavior. With sophisticated contextual awareness, the network can recognize harmful traffic and make decisions to protect the business services it delivers.
- Control: A secure network differentiates and controls the many traffic flows that traverse it, distinguishing between relevant business communications and malicious or unauthorized activities.
- Compliance: Governments and regulatory agencies increasingly dictate the acceptable uses for corporate information. These rules impact how IT departments handle digital information and transactions.
- Consolidation: Networks must be able to accommodate a diverse set of communications types and flows and also adapt to support the consolidation of applications, users and locations.
Access Communications offers a unique approach to enterprise networking that integrates advanced security and management features to automate control of the entire network infrastructure. Our solutions assure business continuity while aligning the infrastructure with the goals of your organization.
