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Design. Configure. Integrate. Manage. Multi-layered security systems.

The goal: to protect information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction.

Protecting your assets from internal & external I.T. threats.

• Antivirus / Antispam Solutions
• Firewall Solutions
• Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
• Authentication
• Internal Security such as Authorization

Antivirus software

Provides protection from files that come into the network via email, Internet downloads, floppy disks, etc. The antivirus software is setup to automatically check for newly discovered threats, periodically scan systems for those threats, and also watch in real time while new files are downloaded from the Internet or detached from email messages to make sure nothing unsafe gets through.

Firewalls

Provides an important line of defense in protecting your network and all of its data by screening the information entering and leaving a network to help ensure that no unauthorized access occurs. Firewalls also help protect your computer against DoS attack, and also against unwittingly participating in one.

Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)

Are vital if you or your employees are connecting to the office network remotely. VPNs secure remote connections beyond the perimeter, allowing for safe communication across the Internet.

Authentication

In computer security, authentication is the process of attempting to verify the digital identity of the sender of a communication such as a request to log in. The sender being authenticated, often referred to as the principal, may be a person using a computer, a computer itself or a computer program.

Authorization

In security engineering and computer security, authorization is a part of the operating system that protects computer resources by only allowing those resources to be used by those that have been granted authority to use them.

Resources include individual files or items, data, computer programs and functionality provided by computer applications. Examples of consumers are computer users, computer programs and other devices on the computer.

inSync designs, integrates & maintains security solutions that navigates the careful balance between security versus access.

On network security, the following quote echoes our President's beliefs:

"The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards - and even then I have my doubts."

Eugene H. Spafford
Director of the Purdue Center for Education and Research in Security

Additional steps to bolster your business’ defense in depth:

Stay up to date on patching
Be vigilant about checking for software updates to take advantage of security fixes and patches for holes that might leave you vulnerable to attack.

Create a security policy
Outline your information assets, and all access rights to that information. Remote access rules should be outlined here also.

Security awareness training
Educate employees so they know their role in maintaining the security of your business.

Restrict and control network access
If you have any temporary or contract workers who need access to your network, be sure to give them only the access necessary to perform their job – and don’t forget to revoke their access entirely once their job is done.

Enforce password management
Ensure that users change passwords regularly, and are careful to not post their user names and passwords out in the open.

Protecting Confidential Informtion

Businesses, today, amass a great deal of confidential information about their employees, customers, products, research, and financial status. Most of this information is now collected, processed and stored on electronic computers and transmitted across networks to other computers.

Should confidential information about a businesses' customers, finances or new product line fall into the hands of a competitor, such a breach of security could lead to lost business, law suits or even bankruptcy of the business.

Protecting confidential information is a business requirement, and in many cases also an ethical and legal requirement. The introduction of new technologies, along with the increasing sophistication of the threats, calls for a multi-layered, in-depth security solution.

Network security consists of the provisions made in an underlying computer network infrastructure, policies adopted by the network administrator to protect the network and the network-accessible resources from unauthorized access and the effectiveness (or lack) of these measures combined together.

In Conclusion: The downside of new technology

Along with increasing reliance on the Internet and email, today’s small businesses are also embracing wireless mobility, instant messaging, and business-to-business applications. This makes good business sense but at the same time you also need to be aware they are accompanied by a certain element of risk.

Every new technology or device presents a new entry into your infrastructure, and could be used as a conduit for attack if steps are not taken to secure the technology as it is introduced.

inSync implements security measures on all vulnerable points on your system, including your servers and desktops, establishing a multi-layered, comprehensive line of defense, or “defense in depth.

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