IT-security outsourcing

IT security is a set of solutions and measures that prevent unauthorized access to an organization's data, such as computers, servers, networks, and data. This ensures the integrity, availability and confidentiality of information by blocking hackers’ access.

Recently, the approach to information security outsourcing has changed dramatically. Companies are no longer ready to dive into the level of technical tools and individual settings buying information security outsourcing now they need information security as a service.

Previously, we talked about supporting individual solutions, now we are about complex tasks that may require a whole set of technical means and measures. For example, web application protection is considered not only in the context of Web Application Firewall support, but also a whole range of measures, including protection against DDoS attacks and attacks at the application level, services for analyzing web code for vulnerabilities, continuous monitoring of information security incidents with simultaneous control of loading and operation of all application services.

Business is more and more represented on the Internet and communication systems. It is necessary to explore the customer's business processes for its reliable protection. Our cybersecurity specialists look deeply inside client business and its processes.

Operation of an information security system is a routine and laborious process. It is necessary to constantly analyze and improve the efficiency of protection tools: adapt policies for new information security threats, when the protected resources and business processes change, minimize false positives, add exceptions, etc. The more complex the system logic, the more difficult the debugging process, and involved specialists qualifications should be higher. The workload is huge, especially in large organizations where thousands of nodes must be scanned and hundreds of fixes made on a regular basis. Therefore systems that need complex analytics and continuous tuning are outsource transferred.

Qwerty Networks is ready to take on all of these challenges and offers the right information security management services.

On-premises IT security solutions

The transfer of cybersecurity under the control of our team will significantly unload your own resources and free up time to address more global and strategic issues.

Operation of an information security system is a routine and laborious process. It is necessary to constantly analyze and improve the efficiency of protection tools: adapt policies for new information security threats, when changing protected resources and business processes, minimize false positives, add exceptions, etc. The more complex the system logic, the more difficult the debugging process, and involved specialists qualifications should be higher. Therefore, first of all, they outsource systems that need complex analytics and continuous tuning, for example, IPS / IDS, Anti-DDoS, WAF, SIEM, Anti-APT, EDR and others.

Even easy-to-use solutions can generate a huge amount of work too. For example, firewalls, especially in large distributed organizations, can require dozens of changes per week, so it is also advisable to outsource their administration.

A routine operational task that can be outsourced is vulnerability management. It is very important, but due to lack of resources, it is often overlooked.

The difficulty is that the scanning process is closely related to the installation of patches and updates (Patch Management). It is not enough to identify a vulnerability but the main goal is to quickly eliminate the problem. Here often arises a conflict between the information security and IT units. The IT service often opposes the installation of patches and updates, since it is necessary to coordinate technological windows and there is a risk of unstable operation of systems after updates. Therefore, before forming the final recommendations for the IT service, it is necessary to analyze the scan results in detail and highlight only those vulnerabilities that require elimination.

To do this, you need to study the features of the infrastructure, the criticality of each node and the existing protection measures. These factors affect the availability and vulnerability of the network.

After installing the patches, you must rescan to verify that vulnerabilities are closed. For hosts where updating is not possible, compensatory measures need to be developed with the IT service.

Our team of professionals is ready to do all this difficult and time-consuming work for you.

• Server security. Our experts will conduct a deep audit of your server for possible security problems. Based on the data received, we will propose a set of actions to modernize the server's security system. We can support the server for the period agreed with you after completing the necessary steps.
• Network security. We will analyze your computer network for possible security and access control problems. Based on the data obtained, our experts will propose a set of measures to modernize the security of the network infrastructure and access points.
• Desktop security. You will give us administrative access to your hardware. Our specialists will remotely connect to your workstations and perform the necessary operations to identify and eliminate security problems. After that, we will be ready to take your computers for maintenance for the specified period.

Cloud security

If your company wants to reduce capital costs and not buy security solutions then it makes sense to consider our cloud services.

In this case, Qwerty Networks will provide information security tools according to the MSSP (Managed security service provider) scheme from the cloud and their expert services.

The most common are services based on Anti-DDoS (protection against DDoS attacks), WAF (web protection), MDM (control and protection of mobile devices), Sandbox (detection of complex targeted attacks), Vulnerability Scanner (external vulnerability scanning). And, of course, cloud SOC services have been in high demand in recent years.

The main advantages of cloud services are quick start, flexible scalability and a convenient payment mechanism based on the “pay as you grow” model, when only the actual consumed volume of services is paid.

On-premises and cloud services can effectively complement each other. For example, to protect against DDoS attacks we recommend using both local and cloud filtering, as it is difficult to fully protect traffic locally from attacks aimed at overloading channels. For improve the efficiency of setting up information security systems and response processes we recommend to use external threat information services (Threat Intelligence).

IT security engineer outstaffing

If you need to temporarily close a specific role, for example, for the duration of a search for a specialist in the state or a project, it is worth considering the option of outstaffing.

In this case, we will provide a specialist with skills, experience and qualifications defined in the requirements, or a whole team. Only general job responsibilities may be indicated in the contract and specific tasks will be set in the process of project implementation.

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