The implementation of "defense in depth" is critical in today's interconnected enterprise, particularly with the amount of data that must inevitably flow in the course of conducting routine business with customers, business partners, service providers, and suppliers. The challenges to IT security increase exponentially as we add more people, processes and technologies to the mix. A reliable system of checks and balances must be implemented throughout the network enterprise to ensure appropriate controls, effective configuration management, activity logging and anomalous event alert and notification.
Intrusion Detection and/or Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS) generate enormous amounts of data. Although the data contains valuable information to health and security of networks and hosts, this information is time consuming to extrapolate and analyze. Further, the majority of these data and events are intentional and necessary to daily business operations making it even more difficult to ascertain when something inappropriate has occurred. Knowing what to monitor, what are "normal" behaviors for your network, how to gather information and how to react to that information often requires personnel resources beyond that which most can allocate. Unfortunately this leads many organizations to disable their IDS/IPS solutions or simply allow them to run, sub-optimized and poorly-monitored.
CynergisTek offers an IDS/IPS Remote Management Program to assist clients in achieving the ROI on this investment and realizing real operational value on a daily basis. Unlike traditional managed security service providers (MSSP), CynergisTek offers a program predicated on 8x5x260 service levels. For many of our clients, 24x7x365 is more intensive service than they need or can operationally support, and it is simply too costly. CynergisTek's monitoring or management programs are customized to a service level and budget that is more practical and realistic for many of today's enterprises. |
