Maintaining your network integrity is number one priority at Global Data Systems. The challenge is to enable your people and your customers to quickly get the information they need, without placing sensitive information assets at risk.
With GDS Managed Firewall Services, you have a powerful, security-enhanced solution for managing digital identities and access privileges. GDS ensures outstanding protection by maintaining your operating system, policy configuration, and network design with the highest degrees of vigilance.
Along with GDS' Managed Firewall Services, we offer a suite of optional features that can be customized to provide a fully integrated security solution. This flexible approach includes URL filtering, security, event correlation and more. GDS' Managed Firewall Services offer industry-leading SLAs and provides benefits such as:
- Proactive 24x7x365 monitoring
- Professional technical support
- Ongoing tuning of firewall configuration and rules
- Maximum availability and reliability
It all adds up to simplified management of user communities across your entire enterprise, improved operational efficiency, and increased productivity. Exactly the kind of powerful benefits you'd expect from GDS.
GDS Managed Firewall Services offer security assurances for the event monitoring and configuration management of firewalls. Firewall monitoring assures that the firewall is not experiencing anomalous behavior, recognizes if it's the victim of an attack, and can be combined with our Security Information Manager (SIM) to define and track baseline statistics for alerting against unexpected deviations.
Firewall management applies GDS' security expertise to firewall design, deployment and configuration. Prior to hardware deployment or acceptance security engineers review all firewall rules. Firewalls are monitored 24x7 to assure their ongoing health and adherence to security policy. As patches and updates are released, they are reviewed by GDS engineers who consult with our vendors to determine if they merit application. When an update is required, GDS provides notification and schedules its applications. a
Very few networks are without perimeter firewall protection. Many have recognized the benefits of firewalls deployed well within the corporate network. Since the purpose of the firewall is to eliminate threats from passing through unnecessary channels, firewall deployment should be considered wherever traffic rules can be tightened. GDS managed firewall customers are often GDS network clients. Due to both our network and security skills, GDS is uniquely able to advise customers in the application of firewall rules regarding the use of least privilege to maintain maximum security while allowing full network and application functionality.
Key Benefits:
- Monitoring only or full management flexibility
- Relieves customer of hiring and maintaining expensive security IT staff
- Reviews to mitigate unintended consequences resulting from configuration changes
- Real-time notification of events
- Event correlation capabilities through Security Information Management (SIM) option
- Review and application of necessary vendor patches and updates