Security
The business world is becoming more interconnected every day. The internet and global telecommunication services enable worldwide connectivity for employees, supply chain vendors and customers. As functionality increases, organizations rapidly become dependent upon them to such an extent that a fault or failure can have an immense impact on the organization’s financial viability. Even without a technical failure, faults with policies and procedures that cause breaches in security of customer, vendor, or private corporate data can devastate a firm and lead to years of litigation or worse.
"A Security breach can take a viable firm into crisis in a matter of minutes"
In order to stay competitive, however, entities need to adopt new technologies and ways of doing business. At the same time, they also need to identify and assess the risks facing them and take proactive and continual steps to mitigate them.
The backdrop is that new security issues and attacks on commercial and government networks are the daily norm.
- Spyware
- Security holes in Browsers & eMail Clients
- Patches that patch previous patches
- Denial-of-Service Attacks
- Unauthorized Access by former employees
- Confidentiality Breaches
- Lost or publicly disclosed private customer information
- Viruses in ever-newer stealth forms
- Identity Thefts
Intranet and Internet security have taken a front seat in the average IT manager's list of worries. Furthermore, keeping up with the necessary best practices and technologies requires a team of specialists, something that only the largest of entities can afford on a fulltime basis. In addition, increased governmental regulations both in the US and abroad mandate that companies pay serious heed to security issues
L4 Networks understands that having well thought out security policies and procedures along with solid technology platforms are absolute necessities. This will also help ensure that your enterprise is protected against the liability that can arise from misuse of the organization’s data.
Security Capabilities at-a-glance
- Security Vulnerability Assessments
- Security Policy & Procedures
- Penetration Testing
- Enterprise Firewalls
- HIPAA Compliance
- Training
- Anti-virus Software
- Anti-Spyware Software
- Anti-Spam Solutions
- Workstation Firewall Software
- Mail Server software for Windows, Linux and Unix
- Firewall & VPN Router Appliances
- Secure VPN Firewall Routers
We are often asked about Sarbanes Oxley. Here is an interesting quote:
Sarbanes Oxley seems wholly focused on the accuracy of a company's financial records and controls around these records, so where does IT security come into the picture? …. The thing to remember about SOX is that it is primarily focused on the accuracy of financial reporting data. IT security is important under SOX only to the extent that it enhances the reliability and integrity of that reporting. To the extent that SOX provides an incentive to companies to do that which they reasonably should be doing anyway, by all means feel free to use it to convince with senior management. The better reason to have good controls over IT and IT security, however, is not because it will make you SOX compliant - but because it will make your business more efficient, enable you to better utilize your data, and allow you to trust ALL the data, not just financial reporting data. If it takes a few senior executives going to jail to achieve that, so be it. Source: Sarbanes Oxley for IT Security?, Mark Rasch, 2005-05-02