Security, monitoring, auditing, and privacy
As an IT Professional, one of your most important responsibilities is to ensure that your environment is a secure one in terms of protection from known vulnerabilities. To many organizations, this often means just making sure patches are applied. That is necessary, but patching alone isn’t the complete answer, many problems are not resolved by patching. Critical security issues can be the result of accidental or negligent misconfigurations of some system component, poorly coded applications (especially web applications), the result of some past malicious activity, or any number of other factors.
Scanning and Security services
WSC can accurately scan, diagnose, and continually monitor your network using any number of tools. WSC is rated at the expert level or above on the following tools and methods:
- Nessus Vulnerability Scanner: security and auditing
- NMap: network scanning and auditing
- Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer: security and auditing
- Cacti: Bandwidth usage and monitoring
- Nagios: Continual monitoring, notification, and escalation
- Wireshark: Network sniffer and packet analysis
- Snort: Intrusion detection
- Metasploit: Scanning and testing code for possible exploits
- Operating system upgrades and patching
- Custom complies of base operating systems
Security consulting and hardening
Furthermore, WSC has deep experience in the securing of the standard suite of OS-level applications from attack, including the hardening and securing of Apache, IIS, Tomcat, sendmail, postfix, qmail, and many other applications. We can advise our clients on how to appropriately patch their existing codebase to prevent Denial of Service and other attacks, can secure firewalls, and configure networks for optimum, secure performance.
Monitoring services
WSC also operates a monitoring service for our clients: Let us know what servers, services, and ports you wish to have monitored–or ask us to find out for you–and how frequently you wish these services monitored (from 15-second to much longer intervals) and who you would like notified when there is an issue, and we’ll handle it for you. We’ll even take over the initial triage when something does go wrong and be your first responders. Using the industry-standard Nagios monitoring application, plugins, and custom bolt-on additions to Nagios, there really isn’t any kind of monitoring situation we cannot handle from our secure datacenter.