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Solutions
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Design and implementation of ids, firewall and vpn's |
Perimeter security |
An organisations perimeter security is the firsT line of defense against external threats.
Sentinel can help provide thorough identification of optimal border security devices, including routers, firewalls, VPN's, load balancing and traffic shaping systems or devices.
Sentinel's commitment to layered security structures provides strong, defence in depth security technology with minimal security management overhead and low total cost of ownership.
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Firewalls |
The selection of IT security products is an integral part of the design, development and maintenance of an IT security infrastructure that will ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability of mission critical information.
It is a decision that should not be made without a firm understanding of the technology, options, or the potential impacts.
With this in mind Sentinel Data Security have developed a frame work which will assist your company in selecting the most efficient Firewall & VPN solution for your business according to your company's information security needs.
Sentinel Data Security takes the following steps in order to guarentee its customers instate the most effective and appropriate solutions.
Identify the company's needs
Prodive the customer with a general understanding of Firewalls & VPN
Determine the customers specific Firewall or VPN requirements
Gain a detailed understanding of the network intended to be protected
Evaluate the suitability of various Firewall or VPN systems
Determine policy and procedures
When evaluating the customers needs and advising on the implementation of a particular firewall or VPN solution, Sentinel consider the following; total life-cycle, support, ease-of-use, scalability, product specification with respect to existing and planned organisational program, policies, procedures, and standards.
Sentinel will also identify security critical dependencies on other products and almalgamate the new product's interface with existing infrastructure.
Sentinel Data Security will consider all aspects of your company's needs and will identify the end user community; the relationship between the security product and the organisations mission; the sensitivity of the data; the organisation's security requirements and security policies and procedures. Sentinel will also take into account operational issues such as daily operation, maintenance and training.
As an independent party with no hardware or software product bias, we can design and implement the best Firewall or VPN solution to meet our customers' needs by selecting from all available options.
Given the extensive analysis undertaken by Sentinel prior to making recomendations, you can expect tailored consulting and solutions provided by dedicated security experts who have broad security experience and a passion for their work.
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VPN's |
As businesses expand a need for site-site connectivity plays a crucial role in productivity via the means of data sharing and centralised service provision. VPN's are a key to secure connectivity between sites and act as encrypted tunnels on unsecured mediums such as the Internet.
Sentinel are able to design and setup all types of VPN's, including: handheld devices, wireless, site to site and anywhere-in-the-world to headquarters secure VPN tunnels.
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Load balancing |
As the daily productivity of organisations becomes increasingly reliant on the internet and inter-office connectivity, ensuring adequate bandwidth control has become crucial.
Sentinel helps organisations determine bandwidth policy, load balancing procedures and scope technology.
This guarentees that business critical network traffic is given priority, and that personal use by employees does not interfere with the delivery of pertinent business related information.
If you provide an Internet based service, turnover will be dependant on the availiability of the web based systems to your clients. Sentinel will assist you in managing your resources to ensure that your systems can cope with the ammount of traffic by balancing the load between multiple systems.
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Traffic shaping |
Traffic shaping is the general term given to a broad range of techniques designed to enforce prioritisation policies on data transmission over a network link.
Sentinel can help your organisation prioritise outgoing or inter-office network traffic, giving more important services such as document sharing or email priority over web browsing or other less critical services.
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Intrusion detection |
The selection of IT security products is an integral part of the design, development and maintenance of an IT security infrastructure that ensures confidentiality, integrity, and availability of mission critical information.
It is a decision that should not be made lightly, or without a firm understanding of the technology, options, or the potential impacts.
With this in mind Sentinel Data Security have develop a frame work to help you select the right IDS solution for your business whilst keeping in mind your information security needs.
The selection of IT security products follows the risk management process of identifying the most effective mix of management, operational, and technical controls.
Once the necessary controls are identified, the most effective IT security products can then be identified to provide for these controls using the framework developed by Sentinel Data Security.
The Sentinel Data Security decision methodology process can be divided into the following steps:
Identify the customer need or requirements
Give customers general understanding of Intrusion Detection Systems
Determine the customers IDS specific requirements
Gain a detailed understanding of the network(s) intended to be monitored/protected
Evaluate various IDS systems compared to requirements
Determine policy and procedures
When evaluating the customers needs and advising on the implementation of a particular IDS solution, Sentinel consider the following; total life-cycle, support, ease-of-use, scalability, product specification with respect to existing and planned organisational program, policies, procedures, and standards.
Sentinel will also identify security critical dependencies on other products and almalgamate the new product's interface with existing infrastructure.
Given the extensive analysis undertaken by Sentinel prior to making recomendations, you can expect tailored consulting and solutions provided by dedicated security experts who have broad security experience and a passion for their work.
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Network intrusion detection systems |
Sentinel are the leaders in delivery of sophisticated Intrusion Detection System architecture deployment, maintenance and monitoring.
Our consultants are experts in all leading IDS packages, including:
Manhunt NIDS (Symantec)
Dragon NIDS (Enterasys Networks)
Intrusion.com NIDS/Taps (Intrusion Inc)
eTrust NIDS (Computer Associates)
Snort NIDS (A customisable Open Source NIDS)
Bro NIDS (A customisable Open Source NIDS)
Prelude NIDS (A customisable Open Source NIDS)
Sentinel will recommend and install the best IDS system on the market.
Furthermore Sentinel continually attempt to evade these very systems in order to ensure that the highest quality security is maintained.
This ensures Sentinel stays ahead of competition and delivers maximum security to all clients.
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Host intrusion detection systems |
Sentinel provides several Host Based intrusion detection systems (HIDS). These alow your organisation to create a solid foundation for an effective, multi-layered security strategy.
Whether the HIDS requirement be change detection or change process auditing, our solutions seemlessly install and 'disappear' onto servers, workstations and some network devices.
Sentinel also provides integration into existing NIDS or 'Intrusion Recovery' systems, allowing your organisation to setup several rings of breach detection and disaster recovery.
Detailed reporting and centralised management allow ease of deployment, administration of your integrity management solutions.
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Honey nets / Deceptive networks & systems |
Honey-nets are an old concept which has only recently been employed in the commercial sector. Honey Nets function by creating decoy or 'honey' systems which keep potential attackers away from your real company network, systems and valuable data. Sentinel can provide the very latest in Honey Ney technology, as well as full monitoring and management.
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Design and implementation of authentication and encryption |
Authentication solutions |
Sentinel provides solutions for strong authentication which can conform to any IT infrastructure.
Should an site require one time passwords, electronic signatures or biometrics, Sentinel can provide an all encompassing solution that allows your company to secure all remote user access with a minimal increase in security management.
These strong authentication solutions extend to extranets, web servers, dial in user services, wireless infrastructure and VPN's using several means, including one-time passwords, digital certificates and tokens.
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Encryption solutions |
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PGP and PKI |
The public key infrastructure solutions provided by Sentinel allow you to cost effectively establish a robust, customised PKI and certificate authority system for issuing digital credentials throughout your enterprise.
This allows your users to safely and securely access e-mail, web-mail, networks, VPN's, extranets, secure web sites, portals and any other network enabled device or system. From creating a trusted certificate authority for your organisation, to enterprise wide PKI deployments Sentinel provides start to finish tailored solutions.
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Email and document control |
The loss of information transmitted through regular e-mail communications can increase a businesses legal liability as well as the risk of private business information being accessed by unauthorised parties.
In order to secure e-mail content, organisations have traditionally turned to standards-based S/MIME solutions. However, due to the complexities associated with deploying the underlying PKI and extending the infrastructure to include external parties, enterprise-wide deployments are rare.
Sentinel provides secure email solutions which allow you to dictate:
Who can read the email, even after it has left the corporate network
Whether recipients can print, copy or save the email
How long the recipient can read that email
Should you decide to alter the privileges or even expire the message entirely, all copies will be altered accordingly, no matter where they are located; on workstations, servers, or backup tapes.
This solution is excellent for short term, contract or new staff who's access to certain information should be limited, as all 'secured' e-mail will eventually expire and no londer be accessible to them.
Today, organisations are under increasing pressure to share their intellectual property and valuable information with colleagues, partners and customers via electronic means.
Typically, organisations implement multiple layers of security such as firewalls, file encryption and authentication to secure information. However, these security approaches do not protect documents once they have been distrubuted beyond corporate boundaries.
Document control allows organisations to lock down any form of document, MS Office, PDF or other, setting restrictions such as printing, reading or modification.
These restrictions can be set to apply to an entire document or on a per page basis.
Both email and document control mechanisms extend to offline status, meaning, if employees take the restricted document/email offsite they will still be restricted to the policy previously set for that data.
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Design and implementation of content security |
Content access control |
Sentinel provides solutions for various forms of content access control.
From restricting network usage to authenticated users, to securing data streams via authentication and encryption solutions, Sentinel will help your organisation to secure your existing network infrastructure.
Sentinel can also protect wireless network access points from abuse by providing authentication user/role determined dynamic firewall policy, usage account and auditing.
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Active rights management for post delivery policy control for email and documents |
Today organisations use e-mail more often than they use the telephone to communicate critical business information with colleagues and business partners.
Sentinel can provide patented Active Rights Management technology to secure e-mail both during and after delivery.
Giving you the ability to decide:
Who reads your e-mail. You can even stop readable copies from being forwarded.
How long recipients can read it.
Whether recipients can print, copy or save your message.
You also have the ability to take back the permission to view a message from anyone, anywhere, even after recipients have accessed your message.
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Content filtering and logging |
Content filtering helps organisations increase productivity and reduce legal and privacy risks by automatically enforcing acceptable use policies while minimising administration overhead.
Sentinel's content filtering technologies allow organisations to set either a strict 'white list' policy, where only the sites in the filter list are allowed to be visited, or a 'black list' policy, where all sites except the ones in the list are allowed to be visited.
The filtering policies can also extend to time-of-day, username/group/password or network segment restrictions, allowing segregated filtering based on the clients role within your organisation.
Several of our clients use such technology to selectively block advertisments, pop-ups, p2p file-sharing and instant messaging therefore reducing bandwidth costs and effectively stopping unproductive resource usage.
Our systems provide comprehensive logging and reporting allowing IT staff to peer into users browsing behaviour, including lists of visited sites, time spent at sites, bytes transferred, top-sites visited (with user/segment list), filtered requests, http error codes and percentage values for the user, server or object in relation to other data stored.
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Virus control |
With evergrowing virus, trojan-horse and malicious code threats, having anti-virus on all workstations and servers has become a necessity.
Sentinel provides complete anti-virus solutions which include policy configuration, virus scan and definition update scheduling, the ability to monitor and view scan histories and intelligent decisions on what to quarantine based on the infected hosts' role within the organisation.
Keeping virus definitions up to date and restricting users from tampering with the anti-virus settings allows you to eliminate the threat of a virus outbreak in your organisation which could potentially cause damage or even loss of valuable data.
Sentinel also provide virus spread recognition, allowing your organisation to quickly identify infected hosts, the rate of infection and affected network segments, allowing you to quickly isolate infected the systems thus preventing further spread.
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Tools |
Self auditing software |
Sentinel has developed a self-auditing system which allows an IT manager to probe, sweep and event simulate attacks against their own network whenever they see fit.
These tests can be scheduled, automated or executed manually, in any case the detailed reports provided by Sentinel allow your business to very quickly assess your existing network and assess the effectiveness of any existing security infrastructure.
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