Firewall Management
Firewalls are a key element of your Defense-in-Depth. A disturbing trend with many security providers is to drop a firewall into your system, using a default configuration. This technique is designed to make managing the firewall easier on the provider, not secure for the client. Control Point knows that to be effective, security equipment MUST be tailored to the environment it is securing! This means spending more time configuring and managing the equipment, advising you on potentially high-risk conditions, and helping your IT staff understand the security implications of what they do inside your environment. But alas, a firewall can only control traffic that is passing through it...
Please see Intrusion Detection Systems.
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