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Security Architecture and Design Solutions
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VeriSign Security Architecture
and Design Solutions focus on network architecture to help prevent many
attacks from occurring and minimize the impact and contain the threat
if an attack occurs.
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| The Purpose | Develop an architecture and design that support your business. Build in performance, flexibility, and scalability. Be better prepared for both internal and external threats. |
| Value to You | An architecture that's designed to be more resilient if attacked. An infrastructure that's easier to manage. More insight into potential threats - and the risks they pose. |
| How We Work | Measure your architecture against your business objectives and standards of good practice. Help develop a design that clarifies the technical requirements needed to meet your objectives. |
| The Results | Heightened network security and a consolidated, more manageable infrastructure. Recommendations based on knowledge of your enterprise and your cost and effort limits. |
| Why VeriSign | Consultants who have developed network and security architectures for the industries we serve. The ability to make vendor-independent recommendations. A broad exposure to architecture and design in a wide range of industries, armed with unique understanding of current threats. |
| Learn More | To talk with us about security and your business, call 650-426-5310 or submit your inquiry online.
Or, see the Global Security Consulting Services Overview. |
The Purpose
Architecture and Design That Supports Your Business Goals
Good network security starts with architecture and design. Your architecture
must minimize the risk of attacks. Attacks will occur nonetheless. So
your architecture must also help you contain and recover from a successful
attack. To help you meet these ends, we look at your architecture and
design to pinpoint how you can improve them. But security isn’t just
about vulnerabilities—it’s about the consequences of a security breach
on your business. So, more importantly, we look at your architecture
and design to make sure they’re serving your business goals.
Architecture is strategic. We help you to develop
an architecture that supports not just your immediate goals but your
overall business strategy.
Design—or assessment of design—is tactical
rather than strategic. We focus on identifying the technology that’s
available now to solve the problems at hand. Technology, of course,
changes—often rapidly. So we reexamine your design frequently to make
sure it’s up to date.
Resilience, Flexibility, and Scalability
Resilience, flexibility, and scalability are the foundation of good
architecture and good design.
Implementing a standard on your current architecture
may not be possible. Most security solutions operate in the application
layer of your system. But if the lower layers of your system aren’t
performing properly, they won’t be able to support the solution. We
make sure your architecture accommodates a solution in the best way
so that it performs effectively.
The growth of your business may be difficult
to predict. But you need a system that scales as easily as possible.
If your organization is global, we can show you how to create an architecture
that is adaptable worldwide. We provide you with a solid architecture,
a rule set, and a design based on that rule set to give you the flexibility
you need to scale efficiently.
Intrusion Detection Engineering and Support
VeriSign Intrusion Detection Services (IDS) Engineering and Support
draws on our 24x7 managed IDS security expertise. We help you design,
deploy, and tune IDS implementations. We educate you on the proper review
process for alerts. We assist with IDS training and response planning.
We review reports with you as needed and supply organizations with a
list of high, medium, and low threats as they arise. We can also simulate
attacks to test and validate your IDS technology and response capability.
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Value to You
Protection and Containment
We help you design an architecture with two goals. First, it
helps prevent many attacks from occurring. Second, when they do occur,
it minimizes the impact and contains the threat to a select group of
systems.
Manageability
Ultimately, you get a network with a more secure design, better equipped
to detect security breaches, and consolidated so it’s easier to manage.
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How We Work
- We scope the work.
While some technical
security assessments can be limited to vulnerability testing and penetration
testing, incorporating the design and architecture of your network can
provide a more comprehensive view of your risks, We work with your security
and information officers to define the scope of the work you want us
to undertake. We can also work with other companies if you’ve outsourced
your security services.
- We learn your goals and analyze the current state of your security.
First and foremost,
we make sure we understand your business goals. We want to make recommendations
that are not only technically sound – but the best for your business.
We look at your current policies. We review your network, technology,
and security device architecture. We evaluate your disaster recovery
practices. We focus on whether everything is consistent and complete.
- We analyze data flows.
We examine the
inputs, throughputs, and outputs of your network, and specifically how
data traverses it. We look for points of ingress and egress for
employees, customers, and business partners. Our experience encompasses
performing reviews of the most complex networks for the largest companies
and government agencies.
- We assess your risk.
Networks—which
have many components and segments—are very porous. We look at how you’ve
configured your network and how you’ve placed key security technologies
such as firewalls, proxy-filters, and intrusion detection systems (IDS).
We can also measure your network’s resilience to denial-of-service attacks.
- We measure your architecture against your goals.
We interview executives
and managers to determine if your architecture is on target with your
business goals and strategy. We also determine if your design is representing
the architecture efficiently.
- We translate the goals into technical requirements.
We develop a long-term
strategy that maps the architecture you have now to what you need for
the future.
We can implement the strategy for you. Or we
can work with you on a pilot project to transfer to your staff or a
third-party the knowledge they need. In addition, we can easily
deploy our Managed
Security Services into your architecture, if you want to
outsource the management of your devices.
How Long It Takes
Analyzing and developing a plan for the entire architecture and design
of your system can take from three to six weeks.
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The Results
An Improved, Secure Network Design
A good solution is the right solutions for you only if it fits your
system architecture. We give you the right architecture for your business
and security goals—and make it possible for you to take advantage of
the best possible solutions.
Enhanced Event-Detection Capabilities
Our thorough probing of your system provides you with both a better
understanding of your vulnerabilities and a better ability to identify
the first signs of an attack.
Resilience
If your business requirement is 99.9% secure uptime, you need the marriage
of good architecture, good design, and strong controls to achieve it.
Design takes into account not just technology—but principles, policies,
and standards. Architecture gives the instructions for creating the
design. Realizing the design requires not just a knowledge of security
technology on our part—but an understanding of your business goals and
an appreciation of your organization.
Tailored Communications
We tailor our recommendations to speak clearly and effectively to the
people they affect. We provide executive summaries for decision makers
- and the specialized details that give your technical staff the information
they need to fix the problems we uncover.
Tailored Recommendations Ranked by Cost and Effort
We rank our recommendations. We know everyone has a limited security
budget. We identify the improvements that are best for your business—-and
rank our recommendations accordingly. We help you prioritize your spending:
we do a cost-benefit analysis of each recommendation and identify which
are easiest and least expensive—and will produce the most effective
results.
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Why VeriSign
Our recommendations are vendor independent
to give you the freedom to implement the solution that suits you best.
Read about Our
Approach—the foundation for all our work.
We have a wide variety of customers in a broad
range of industries. That exposes us to the need for many different
architectures, designs, and solutions. Read Industries
We Work With to learn more about our experience in your industry.
Many of our consultants are IT security professionals
who’ve worked in Fortune 1000 companies or in the financial, healthcare,
life sciences, retail, and manufacturing industries. Read about Our
Expertise.
We handle billions of Internet transactions
every day. That gives us unique intelligence about the most current
threats—and the experience and foresight to maintain a level of safety
that’s second to none. Read about The
Value of VeriSign.
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