Akibia Delivers a Total Network Security Solution

It is Akibia's approach to take a holistic view of a company's network security environment, to gain a thorough understanding of their unique needs, and to design and implement a total security solution. Although firewalls today provide perimeter security, and the first line of defense against potential threats, they represent only one key component within a network security architecture.

Leveraging our partnerships with industry-leading security vendors, Akibia offers a portfolio of network security solutions to mitigate the risks and threats IT managers and security officers must contend with on an ongoing basis. While Akibia's approach to designing a security solution is a multi-layered one, it is also modular, with all modules interacting with each other as necessary.

As the cornerstone of a company's network security architecture, an enterprise firewall serves as the primary control mechanism between internal corporate assets and the Internet. By effectively filtering traffic at the edge of the network with an optimal firewall solution, significant cost savings result by preempting the need to repair infected systems.

Whether a customer is looking to implement a new firewall or optimize their existing solution, Akibia will help them evaluate best-in-breed products and ensure they have the right firewall solution to meet their specific security requirements. In addition to firewall design and implementation services, we also offer firewall help desk technical support and training.

Businesses today must be able to detect unusual network behavior within their perimeter defense system. Akibia works with companies to design and implement an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) to detect anomalies in network traffic, including malicious threats, and alert the appropriate IT staff to these changes. A properly configured IPS will distinguish between genuine attacks and false alarms and is a highly effective means of protecting against internal threats.

In order to protect against unauthorized user access and given that simple user names and passwords can easily be compromised, Akibia recommends strong authentication and advanced access controls as integral components to a company's overall security strategy.

Many businesses face the challenge of effectively managing employee and partner remote access, ensuring that all remote users have access to the necessary corporate applications and data they need to do their jobs. An optimally designed Virtual Private Network (VPN), leveraging encryption, authentication and clientless technologies, provides secure, cost-effective access to network applications.

Akibia helps clients plan, design and implement the right remote access solution for their environment and business needs - taking into consideration the number of remote users, expected application usage, roaming access needs and the level of security required.

Content Management

With the impact of spam on bandwidth and employee productivity and the need to protect against viruses and worms, companies today must address the issues of web and mail content management as well as anti-virus and email security. Controlling employee web behavior and effectively logging and managing Instant Messaging traffic are just some of the challenges facing many of Akibia's clients.

Akibia offers a complete content management solution that provides full visibility and control over inappropriate Web surfing, and effectively manages Web and Email content, ensuring a secure email gateway.

With businesses looking to reduce the administrative burden and costs associated with manually monitoring the event logs of their security systems, and ensure regulatory compliance, there is a heightened need for comprehensive security event management.

As part of Akibia's total network security solution offering, we work with customers to design an event management solution that enables the collection and correlation of security events and the translation of that data into actionable, meaningful business intelligence.