Investing in an effective network security system is no longer a preserve of the large and well-established companies. Even small retail shops consider investing in a good IT security setup as a key factor in business success. At ORACO Kenya, we offer tailor made IT security solutions to large corporate organizations with branch offices spread across the region. We also support small businesses with standalone office locations; whether in retail or professional services. The IT security solutions we offer are flexible to the changing IT security landscape and the evolving business requirements.
Below, we highlight some of the features of a good network security firewall for a business in Kenya
Automatic response to threats
The firewall has inbuilt capability to identify any active threat and automatically blocks it before it gets spread across the network. By blocking more attacks upfront means less resources used to fire-fight incidences. Even so, all attacks identified, that is, from simple attacks to the most complex of attacks, will get neutralized before spreading across the network. This protection feature ensures the corporate network remains safe from attacks through the gateway or the endpoint.
Optimized for performance
The network firewall being the gateway to the company network, it comes optimized for performance and protection. Therefore, with the architectural design, the firewall has been elevated to do more by working faster while consuming less bandwidth resources. The unified threat management (UTM) firewall has been designed to outmatch new hardware performance requirements. The software also optimized to receive and rollout critical updates.
Integrated remote working technologies
Remote access technologies such as the Software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) and zero trust network access (ZTNA) come already built into the firewall. For instance, the ZTNA technology provides secure access to company resources to all remote workers as defined by the policies. Equally, SD-WAN technology ensure branch offices can share common services from the head office using the virtual WAN architecture.
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Centralized management
The central management console provides visibility across the entire network. The admin console can be accessed through the web browser which means that the network administrator has easy secure access from any device. This flexibility ensures that all devices can be managed from one console. All devices such as the computers, IP PBX phone system, smartphones, Wi-Fi devices, CCTV cameras, and all IP enabled devices can be viewed from the web-based admin console.
Zero-day threat protection
For better network security, UTM firewalls come built with a highly improved IPSec VPN throughput. The IPSec VPN is a firewall feature that ensures networks remains protected from all encrypted threats. Furthermore, the IPSec VPN feature offers protection against zero-day threats.
Still, malicious file encryption can be stopped in real time and roll back can be performed on all affected files. Moreover, at the time of deployment, endpoint protection usually come with pre-configured exploit mitigation policies that help protect against file-less attacks.
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High speed connectivity
The firewall device being the main interfacing appliance between the internet service provider and the local area network. Hence, these appliances come designed with high speed connectivity interfaces. The CAT6 Ethernet ports have been optimized for multi gigabit speeds. And the SFP port ports can be give 10G speeds. Thus, network users can experience gigabit speeds both on wired network and the wireless connections.
Endpoint protection
The main reason for deploying an endpoint protection solution is to prevent breaches and stop ransomware attacks. Be that as it may, computers today experience are severely exposed to sophisticated attacks. The end result is malware attacks leading to massive data loss.
For this reason, it is important to partner with a trusted IT security vendor who can assure users of unparalleled protection. Installing a powerful endpoint protection software not only provides extended detection and response but also incorporates intelligent tools that aid investigation and remediation.
The firewall easily integrates with endpoint protection solution to provide an airtight security. The endpoint protection software has the ability to detect attacks. Following a successful remediation process, the endpoint protection software automatically does roll back of affected files to original state.
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Also, there is anti-exploit feature that provides protection against file-less attacks on endpoints such as computers, servers and smartphones. Zero day exploits usually get executed using advanced techniques that can only an equally advanced endpoint security software can match. All in all, stopping the adversaries on the attack chain have been implemented easily using the anti-exploitation technology.
Value added features
Besides the key security modules, network firewalls offer value add features. Key security modules offered by a unified threat management firewall include network protection, intrusion detection and prevention. Also, anti-spam, application security, web protection and web server protection. And the value-added features include centralized management, zero touch deployment, and an extensive reporting dashboard.
For example, the Web protection feature protects users from accessing phishing websites and other malicious websites. Hence, users will not fall for suspicious websites links that have been specifically shared to gather sensitive user data. Still, the web protection feature does application control and web filtering thereby minimize by a big margin the attack surface.
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