INTRUSION MANAGEMENT
To counter these threats, many companies
have spent the last five years aggressively building out their Perimeter
Security (Protection) strategies with Firewalls, Anti-virus and Proxy
Gateways, to name but a few. To effectively safeguard against threats or
intrusions, you need to build a Detection and Response strategy to complement
a Protection strategy.
A holistic strategy should:
- Enunciate and addresses the threat
against your company and its risk liability;
- Include a mechanism for enforcing this
policy (Protection Strategy);
- Include a mechanism for auditing the
enforcement of this policy (Detection Strategy); and
- Include a mechanism to respond to
policy violation (Response Strategy).
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By taking a consultative business-led
approach, Dimension Data helps to mitigate the threats posed by virus and
worm attacks and reduces the ongoing costs relating to patch management.
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Dimension Data’s Intrusion Management
Architecture (IMA) Framework underpins our Protect, Detect and Respond
Security approach by protecting against, preventing and actively responding
to intrusion activity. We provide you with a collection of various security
technologies, combined with our professional consulting services and
intellectual capital that can be implemented in a phased fashion to provide a
layered, defence-in depth threat management solution.
The IMA Framework is a comprehensive
14-module framework that covers areas such Best Practice Assessment, Risk
Assessment, Vulnerability Management, Threat Response, Internal Security,
Host Integrity Assurance, and Forensics, among others.
The benefits are:
- Reduces the cost of dealing with malicious
code attacks
- Can reduce the cost of patch and
signature management
- Helps organisations to move away from
reactive patch management to a proactive process
- Should eliminate the zero-day gap
- Can reduce the quantity and improve the
quality of messages from existing IDS systems
