Internet growth over the last ten years has been phenomenal – driven by the recognition that it could be used as a business tool, rather than simply somewhere to host newsgroups and an infrastructure for the technical elite to communicate. The Internet has transformed the way that we all do business – e-mail communication is as critical as telephony, and immediate access to information is a given. Competitive pressures are driving e-commerce. Business-to-business Extranets reduce costs and time to market by streamlining the supply chain using electronic communications with suppliers and partners. Business-to-consumer applications provide another route to market for products.

Perimeter security addresses the security at the edge of the private network – where it connects to the public Internet. An access control policy is used to protect an organization from security threats by specifying what data can enter and leave an organization’s network. Gateway firewalls are used to enforce this policy. Once the only security deployed by many organizations, today firewalls are seen as a building block in an all-encompassing tiered approach to network security.

Firewall Benefits:

Firewalls protect private local area networks (LANs) from hostile intrusion from the Internet. Consequently, firewall protection allows many LANs to be connected to the Internet where Internet connectivity would otherwise have been too great a risk.

Firewalls allow network administrators to offer access to specific types of Internet services to selected LAN users. This selectivity is an essential part of any information management program, and involves not only protecting private information assets, but also knowing who has access to what. Privileges can be granted according to job description and need rather than on an all-or-nothing basis.

As an end-to-end network security provider, Bentsol is uniquely positioned to offer security solutions that can be deployed at key points of vulnerability across the network. Bentsol understands the security challenges that organizations face today, and empowers its customers to safely engage in business by providing them with best in-class security solutions.

Bentsol Security Solutions addresses all firewall considerations including:

The Research Edge:

Aggressive, in-depth security research is – and always has been – the core of Bentsol and all of its products and services. Our innovative research methods are aimed at the business applications, operating systems, and network operating systems that compromise the evolving infrastructure of commerce.

Vulnerability Assessment:

The first step in protection for online resources is locating where information is stored, understanding the security measures in place that guard that information, and identifying vulnerabilities and suspect configurations that place information at risk. Vulnerability assessment solutions work at the workgroup and enterprise level, providing critical knowledge and advance warning of potential online security risks across network, server, database and wireless operations.  

Internet Scanner:

The Internet Scanner application provides comprehensive network vulnerability assessment for measuring online security risks. Internet Scanner performs scheduled and selective probes of communication services, operating systems, applications and routers to uncover and report systems vulnerabilities that might be open to attack.

Standard Methodology:

Bentsol has developed a thorough Network Security Architecture Design methodology that includes: