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After implementing a security system
like a Firewall, many companies cease to invest time
and resources into the ongoing process of security.
Ideally your company would have a staff of Internet
Security Experts who respond to critical threats to
computer security and pro-actively patch and upgrade
your systems. The reality is that IT staff is more often
a collection of generalists or no one is responsible
for the Internet Security at all. Even if there is an
ample IT budget, qualified professionals are always
hard to find or those budget resources are best spent
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| Why Choose a Managed
Firewall? |
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No Internet Security
Specialists on staff. |
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Reduce load on current
IT Staff. |
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Third party validation
of critical security systems. |
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Outsourcing your firewall
management to NDP Managed Security gives you a staff
of qualified professionals that pro-actively secure
your firewall from vulnerabilities, make any necessary
changes as requested, and monitor the Intrusion
Detection System. |
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NDP specializes in monitoring and managing the Mercury
Managed Firewall System. With a Mercury Managed
Firewall System, our staff will monitor your critical
alerts and logs in real-time and proactively respond
appropriately to incidents or respond in a timely
manner to service requests from the customer. NDP
will apply all critical software
updates (patches) to mitigate new vulnerabilities
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| Benefits of a Managed
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Software patches and
product updates. Most software needs to be patched
and updated over the course of its life, and hardware
devices require new drivers. NDP updates all necessary
software within a response time proportional to
the critical nature of the update. |
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Configuration changes.
Whenever changes need to be made to the firewall
to accommodate the dynamic nature of the Internet,
NDP will make them for you within a pre-defined
time-frame. |
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Virtual Private Network
Administration. Growing businesses can have dynamic
needs to add and remove business partners from secure
areas of their networks. The growing number of telecommuters
in the workforce today also requires dynamic changes
to any VPN implementation. |
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Monitoring. To get the
most out of your Internet investment, you need to
verify that your assets are up and functioning at
all times. NDP uses custom software to monitor the
uptime of the firewall. |
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Intrusion Detection System
(IDS). NDP includes the SNORT Intrusion Detection
System (IDS) with the firewall. NDP will also monitor
the output of this system and update the IDS signature
files as needed to verify that there are no hacking
attempts that don’t get logged, reported,
and responded to. |
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Security Vulnerability
audit of all network devices on a set schedule analyzed
by NDP experts with recommendations attached when
potential vulnerabilities are discovered in your
systems. |
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