Network Security
As an organisation, your company information is your number one asset. To survive as a company you must make this information accessible to your employees; perhaps your partners, sometimes your customers.
Unfortunately, by making it accessible to the people you trust - you can also make it accessible to those people you don’t trust.
Ex-employees, hackers, fraudsters, business competitors, virus writers, blackmailers – all these people will want access to your most valuable company data, and thanks to network communications, the Internet and the explosion in remote working, all these people have more opportunity than ever before to get at your information.
Particularly combined with traditional surveillance techniques and intelligence, untrusted parties can now gain unprecedented access to your most valuable commodity - information. Hackers can plant remote “bots”, wreaking havoc with your company’s information & corporate image. Are you 100% sure that an ex-employee couldn’t get his or her hands on your sales forecast for the next quarter? Going further – are you sure a hacker couldn’t get the same information and then sell it to your competitors? What if one of your management team lost his or her PDA or laptop and it got into the wrong hands – do you know your risk then?
As a Sophos report on data security trends states in July 2006: “...this has been over compensated by increases in other types of malware, as cyber criminals (now) turn their attention to stealing information and money...” (http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2006/07/secur ityrepor tmid2006.html) Don’t think this isn’t happening – it is. How do you really KNOW how safe your organisation is? How do you KNOW where your real risks are? Has your IT Team made SURE that there are no gaping holes in your company’s network?
Talk-Safe, the UK’s leading counter-surveillance specialists, are able to offer a complete package of data security countermeasures, including:
- Network vulnerability-scanning
- Network penetration testing
- Secur ity strategy review
- Architecture design
- Physical security & social engineering testing
- Solution recommendations
Combined with an industry-leading approach to more “traditional” security, we are able to validate your data’s security and inform you of weaknesses - should any of the following circumstances apply to you:
- If an event suggests you have been compromised
- If you believe an event makes it more likely you will be compromised
- You are worried that specific individuals or agencies may attempt to access your data
- If you are worr ied about non-specific individuals attempting to access your data
- If you are worried about viruses, Trojans or bots, how they could be used and what damage they could do to your corporate data
- If you simply want to identify & resolve general vulnerabilities across your IT infrastructure
Talk-Safe’s approach is to meet with you, at no cost, to ascertain the rationale behind your worries. This will dictate the scope of the exercise, the methodology to be used and the results you wish to look for.
Once the scope of the exercise has been agreed, a CISSP or similarly accredited consultant will review the areas of concern. Using a wide variety of tools & techniques, our consultant will carry out exercises as required, including full penetration testing and social engineer ing if necessary. As well as these, internal vulnerability assessments can include:
- Impartial reviews of secur ity product design & configuration
- Host vulnerability checking
- Reviews of secur ity procedures and systems
- Network security architecture review
Our extensive knowledge of the data secur ity industry – products, services & best practice – allows us to give you the peace of mind that once we have reviewed your security infrastructure and made our recommendations, it is highly unlikely that your vulnerabilities will be exploited.
However – beware the company that informs you that everything is 100% safe – it never is! If someone is determined enough, they will continually try to compromise you. As well as this, the ever-changing landscape of threats, vulnerabilities & methods of attack means that what is secure today is insecure in 6 months time.
It is for this reason that Talk-Safe also offer these services on an ongoing basis, as and when our customers need them. We offer bi-annual, quarterly and even monthly contracts aimed at keeping your valuable data secure.
If you feel that you would like to know more, please contact talk-SAFE UK* at any time for free confidential advice.
*Be sure to call us from a phone line/area that you feel is secure
