Information Technology Security
The protection of company infrastructure is built on a layered approach to ensuring confidentiality, supporting integrity and providing assurance that technology solutions are available.
IT Security requires a multi-faceted approach to securing businesses, each layer protecting individual parts of the organisation, but working together to form a single protection solution. Ativo ICT use a structured approach to protect each part component of the organisation. Our layered Information Technology Security approach is based on assessing the requirements of the business, understanding the business pain points and developing a solution that meets the budgetary needs of the business.
Our Next-Generation IT Security Tools are tried and tested and fully trusted to provide business with the level of protection that management want. Our goal is to reduce wasted business time, improve businesses efficiency and help organisations improve their profitability through secure technology solutions.
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What IT security solutions are essential for small businesses?
This is dependent on the business and budget, as each security solution is layered our recommendation would be implementing of endpoint anti-malware protection and a secure email gateway. Most, if not all cyber threats will be delivered through the email gateway, protecting against these with endpoint protection ensures that the organisation is able to prevent most inbound threats.
How can our business benefit from Ativo ICT’s managed IT Security Services?
Outsourcing the IT Security Services to Ativo ICT offers expert protection and overview without the need for in-house security expertise. The benefits include constant monitoring, proactive threat mitigation, response to incidents backed by Service Agreement times and implementation of security best practices. The use of Ativo ICT’s outsourced services allows the business to focus on running the business while being backed by a professional team.
What are the benefits of using a paid anti-malware product over a paid product?
A paid anti-malware product designed for business use ensures that the organisations devices are centrally managed, controlled and protected through a set of security policies that are effective. The use of free anti-malware products may provide somewhat efficient protection for a home user but lack many of the features and security controls that are important for business.
The use of free anti-malware products further lacks proper support and technical expertise from professionals who would be responsible for looking after these products, further to this, the use of a free product allows the user to be the product and willingly give up their personal information when using a free product (If you don’t pay for the product, you are the product).
What is a Firewall, and why is it important for our business?
A Next-Generation Firewall is a security device that sits on the border of the company network (Normally in place of internet router) and monitors the data traffic passing through. The NGW has several built-in features that protect the network, features that include:
- Anti-malware protection on for malicious traffic.
- Blocking of unwanted traffic such as social media, or non-business websites.
- Prioritisation of internet traffic to guarantee business services such as for VoIP, Email, online CRM or accounting and reducing the available throughput of non-business data to prevent abuse.
- Reporting features that allow management to understand the browsing habits of employees.
- Intrusion Prevention that detects threats and protects the network against malicious traffic.
- Secure VPN to allow remote employees to connect to the company network and work remotely.
What is a Secure Email Gateway, and why is it important for our business?
A Secure Email Gateway is a Software-As-A-Service that bolts onto the Email Gateway and provides protection against the following:
- Protecting and blocking spam before it hits the user mailboxes – Freeing up valuable business time of sorting through emails.
- Malware protection against known and zero-day threats (Based on solution provided).
- URL re-writing with on-click scans to block malicious URL’s delivered through email.
- Email attachment protection.
- Protection against social engineering and impersonation attacks designed to trick employees into giving important information.
- Greymail protection – A security features that protects against phishing type of attacks.
- Reporting on email habits, pairs of users and other critical information that allows management to understand email overview status of the organisation.
