The security appliance system.
Technology is one factor that changes within a fraction of time as compared to any other factor around the globe. So, our primary concern is to enlighten all industries and individual businesses about measures to put in place in the current technological state when keeping their essential data security and create security awareness in all vulnerable sectors.
Protection is our primary concern in this field. Following the increase in cybercrime rates among another online bullying, we, as a result of this, take this initiative and focus on securing our clients from unexpected losses resulting from cybercrimes and provide them with more confidence in their network systems.
Currently, the risk of online insecurity is not only faced by major companies. Every company, whether small or big, are all vulnerable to these threats since most of them have not put these policy measures in place.
Every company must ensure that all the organizational data are kept safe in an out of there systems by making sure that reliable security appliances are installed and maintained all through.
More on security appliances.
A security appliance system is a form of server appliance installed on any central data point to secure the organization’s computer networks from malicious attacks or any other unwanted traffic.
Security appliances exist in various forms, and all are responsible for providing outstanding security to your systems in any attempted intrusion or software attacks. The following are the main categories of available appliances.
Active devices: Active devices are responsible for blocking any active unwanted traffic. These are antiviruses, firewalls, and some content filtering devices.
Passive appliances: the main responsibility of passive appliances is detecting and reporting any unwanted traffic. The available appliances of this category are intrusion detection appliances.
Preventive appliances: these are devices that scan the entire network and point out potential security threats. We have vulnerability assessment and penetration testing appliances in this category.
Unified Threat Management(UTM) appliances: UTM appliance operates in a universal way. The devices combine all the security devices features into one system and deliver general protection. The available systems of this category are found with some firewalls, web caching, content filters among some other popular devices.
System auto-update software: system software that is responsible during system updates are very helpful during your data protection. The use of browsers such as chrome and Mozilla are very important since they can notify you about necessary updates and also potential threats.
Security appliance installation and configuration weekly report.
According to the normal system setup routing, the general task is carried out in phases, and our company has been working out its crucial face in system configuration and installation process. From the reports from the technical team, the process has been brought to its conclusion after being marked as a successful phase.
The system configuration process was brought to is summary after the steps of the following simulation.
1.LAN & WAN connectivity: this marked the first step of system configuration that involved WAN and LAN settings, and setting up of reserved IPs for DHCP.
- User admin. Configurations: the administrator’s password was set by changing the default password and introducing a user-passwords.
3.firmware updates: the original firmware was checked for updates, and the new version firmware downloaded. The new firmware was installed then configured latter.
- wireless settings: in this stage, the wireless profile was reviewed, and the security setting updated. The radio settings were also reviewed, upon which the advanced setting was also set.
The last wireless configurations stage was enabling the access point settings and VLAN configuration for wireless options.
System installation.
After configuration, system installation began, and every other component that was well configured proceeded with the necessary handshake, and the system was tested for functionality. Password verifications and security tests were done to prove if the system security features were efficient. The security reliability was to be tested by keying in the wrong system password multiple times to prove its stability.
How does an attack like the one suffered by ABC, Inc. impact consumer confidence in its product?
Normally, consumers prefer using a product from the organizations which are most reputable. New customers tend to be scared of any service from a company that is recorded to have failed before. However, the attack reflected some reluctance from the company, and as a result, most customers were going to lose some confidence with the products.
Why would the company wish to remain anonymous during this process?
Due to the fact that the company was aware of the mess, they wished to remain anonymous, so to remain reputable to those who were not informed of what had just happened.
Which basic user policies would you put in place to make sure employees cannot access each other’s information?
Individual employee data are very crucial to an organization. Most employees have the right to access the organization’s confidential information while some do not. It is very important to consider the security of each and every employee data in an organization through the following ways.
Wireless access control.
Wireless connections are ubiquitous in nature. These connections are vulnerable to attackers if security is not considered as a crucial factor. The attackers can just bypass the data without making any physical visits to your office. An employee should make sure that they do not accept any wireless network from any unknown device since this can be used by the attackers as a trap to luring you for the attack. Also, you can install some useful hardware in your organizational offices to help block strange Wi-Fi networks that show up regularly.
Secure personal computers.
Each employee should ensure that passwords on their personal computers are kept as individual secrets to avoid access by other colloquies.
Use of cloud data storage.
The best place to secure employees’ data is through cloud storage. Cloud storage can hold several collected data that cannot be traced back to its source. Before backing up your data in the cloud, ensure that the data your data is sorted in different categories. More sensitive data must be encrypted before being transported through any network. Ensure that you encrypt your data and assign some digital signature to be used in trusted destinations.
Conclusion.
Cyber-attack is becoming is now common in every sector, following the increase in the number of learned and experienced attackers, and every organization should be aware of this. Modern security devices are required to put your business in a secure state as you introduce some other modern information systems in your organization.