A layer 7 (Application) level firewall gives us insight into what applications and services are being utilised by the users & how they flow through the network. Only then can we start making intelligent decisions around the risk factors associated with various applications, whether they’re cloud based or on-premise. It also gives us great insight into user trends & behaviour.

Traditional A/V is reactive by design, with signature based detection only able to detect what has already been seen before. Advanced EndPoint Protection changes this by looking at the actual exploit techniques being used and blocking them before they are successful. Anything it doesn’t already know can be automatically forwarded to a sandbox for safe detonation, the results of which filter to every device worldwide within minutes.

Growth of SSL within organisations has continued to skyrocket year over year. New forms of Ransomware & other malicious activities are using SSL because it’s common knowledge that SSL traffic is bypassed by most security policies. Looking at trends, inspecting SSL traffic within an organisation needs to be a top priority to preserve your data and brand.

The ability to manage and correlate security events across multiple firewalls through a single interface not only reduces complexity but gives you real optics into your environment. Couple that with being able to combine the events from your Advanced EndPoint Protection Suite and you have a fully developed security envelope around your users and data.

How do you protect against the new and the unknown? The answer to that is by building a platform around intelligent decision making & recognising where these threats originate from. Once we can inhibit the source, the chances of becoming Patient Zero are greatly reduced.

How are you made aware of other domains impersonating your brand? Are you aware of your internal users being targeted by cyber criminals with newly created domains? Having this actionable information at your fingertips is essential to protecting your brand. It’s one of the most critical, yet often overlooked parts of a full security profile.

As companies transition towards Software Defined Networking & increasing use of Cloud services, we must develop a platform that moves seamlessly between these offerings without compromising our overarching security policy. Our platform has been built in a modular way with one eye on the future.

As great as features are, they must not inhibit performance. In business, speed is key. Building a platform which has performance capable of exceeding expectations is the key to avoiding bottlenecks and/or expensive forklift upgrades in the future.

When moving to a cloud provider, it’s important to remember that security of your data is your own individual responsibility & not that of the cloud provider. Being able to seamlessly extend & manage your security policies from on-premise to cloud will ensure a level of consistency & comfort in knowing your data is protected to your own standards.