Overview

There are various vectors through which cyber-attacks are being performed and understanding their fundamentals is vital to effective prevention. A significant volume of cyber-attacks is reportedly delivered through social engineering.

Phishing is a broad term and has different types, such as, but limited to, email phishing, voice phishing, SMS phishing, and malicious advertisements.

Email phishing is the most common social engineering attack. An attacker generates emails containing a very sophisticated human psyche approach to entice the victim. This phishing email would look like a legitimate email but contains hidden malicious codes. A user who is unaware of phishing attacks may think of it as a legitimate email and, thus, click on the embedded link in the email or open the attachment. Either of these will execute the hidden malicious code and infect the system and/or spread it in the local network.

Overview

Multi-vendor Firewall configuration audits are the most necessary part of cyber security compliance. These audits help an organization achieve compliance with statutes, regulations, and standards. A firewall configuration audit is essential to secure an organization’s network because a firewall is a network, an endpoint, or a user’s first line of defense and security. A fortified firewall reduces risks and compromises.

Why choose Insoft for Firewall Configuration Audit?

• Insoft has expertise in Firewalls with more than 15 years of experience
• Reduced Complexity and costs
• Visibility of the devices, including endpoints in the organization
• Better security by having optimized and improved configuration
• Capability of In-house Engineer performing an operational activity
• Achieving the needed compliance concerning the product
• Customized Subject matter expert solutions
• Improved Network Performance/stability and efficiency

Overview

Endpoint Security is a practice of securing the end user devices like desktops, laptops, mobile, etc., from malicious intrusions. Endpoint security systems shield these endpoints on a network or in the cloud from cybersecurity threats. Endpoint security has evolved from traditional antivirus software to providing comprehensive protection from sophisticated malware and becoming zero-day threats. Endpoint security safeguards the data and workflows associated with the devices connected to your network. Endpoint protection platforms (EPP) work by examining files as they enter the network. Modern EPPs harness the power of the cloud to hold an ever-growing database of threat information, freeing endpoints of the bloat associated with storing all this information locally and the maintenance required to keep these databases up to date. Accessing this data in the cloud allows for incredible speed and scalability.

What is an Endpoint?

Mostly an endpoint is any device which connects to the corporate network that transmits data over the network. Some of the key examples of the endpoints are:

• Mobile Phones
• Ipad
• Printers
• Servers
• IoT devices
• OT devices
• Computers & laptops

Overview

How can an organization ensure that the content delivered from the public shared resources that it owns is legitimate and safe? Protect the distributed content by applying a content security policy. The role of CSP is to reduce and detect attacks that can change the distributed content. By implementing Web application firewalls and IPS engines to detect and prevent such attacks, an organization can be assured that the content delivered to its customer is legit and safe.

On the other side, an organization needs to protect itself from content that might lead any employee to become a victim of an attack. By using our services and safeguarding all core services, like email, web access, file sharing, etc., an organization can protect itself from malicious acts. Content Security includes Web and E-mail security. Web Security Gateways offer protection against online security threats by enforcing company security policies and filtering malicious internet traffic in real-time, on-premise, or in the cloud. A secure web gateway provides URL filtering, application controls for web applications, SSL inspection and the detection, DLP, and filtering of malicious code for internal or roaming users. Email Security Relays offer protection against e-mail threats by enforcing company security policies and filtering spam and malicious messages in real time. An e-mail security relay offers anti-phishing, anti-spam, forged email detection, URL filtering, anti-malware, sandboxing, encryption, and DLP.

Overview

Digital forensics is the “art” of investigation and identification after the event of a cyber-attack or malicious incident. We are applying validated scientific techniques to digital crimes and cyber-attacks to uncover or create a chain of evidence. Our experts collect and examine user activity, logs, and other digital evidence to determine the source of malicious activity.

Our expert incident response team is available to help your IT teams during active incidents. When a security incident is elevated in your environment, we will investigate it and remediate it with no delays so that you can get back to normal business operations as quickly as possible.

As part of the incident response plan, the company should evaluate different attacks that can be performed according to the business, assets, and infrastructure. After that, they create a plan to be executed if an incident is reported; this plan should be tested regularly to provide reports to the accountants named in the Incident response plan and explain the roles and responsibilities.

Overview

What is a Next Generation Firewall?

A traditional firewall works only based on Ports, Protocols, and IP addresses; it decides whether to allow/deny traffic based on the information till the OSI layer 4.

Next-Generation Firewall is an advanced traditional firewall with more capabilities, including Advanced Threat Protection, Application Layer Protection using SSL Encryption/Decryption, Data Leak Prevention, and Centralized Network-based Anti-Virus, Intrusion Prevention System, Web filtering, and Application Control all in a single device. It can perform the role of an Edge/Internet, Internal/Data Center Firewall, or IoT/Industrial Firewall and is the keystone of security architecture. The different landscapes of next-generation firewalls combine to create exceptional benefits for users. NGFWs can often block malware before it enters a network, which was not possible previously.

Why does the organization need NGFW?

The cyber threat landscape has increased due to cloud adoption and remote workers (Work from Anywhere). Traditional firewall organization doesn´t block cyber-attacks because of the limitation of scanning the packets (Scans packets only till OSI layer 4). Mostly nowadays, the attack comes from the payload, and it needs devices that analyze/scan the packet from OSI layer two to Layer 7. Next-Generation Firewall gives all the benefits of the traditional firewall plus additional help in preventing Advanced malware, Viruses, Ransomware, Trojans, and connections from bad reputation IPs/Domains.

Overview

Intrusion Prevention System is a vital security control that keeps the organization at the acceptance level of risk hygiene.

Nowadays, as more digital innovation happens and new devices or technologies come into the market, there are always increased threats from various sources and different threat actors.

Intrusion Prevention does both the detection and prevention of any malicious activity. Intrusion detection focus on monitoring devices and network activities for anomalies. Once an anomaly is detected, a specific traffic will be activated, with agreed-upon actions to block the activity.

How does it work?

It sits on your network behind the firewall scanning the network traffic based on source or destination pair for any malicious activity based on several techniques mentioned below:

• Signature Based: Network traffic is analyzed to see if it matches any signature patterns. If it matches, then the traffic will be treated against the configured action. One drawback of this method is that it will block only known attacks.
• Anomaly-based: This technique works by scanning a packet for any abnormal behaviour, and once it finds the abnormality, the packet is either blocked or quarantined based on the configured action. It comes with more advanced Machine Learning or AI technology that helps in reducing false positives and improving the quality and effectiveness of detection and prevention.
• Policy-based: This technique is less common than the other two because it needs a more advanced product knowledge to set up and configure. This technique requires consistent and regular fine-tuning to achieve optimal detection and protection, which increases the Administrator overhead.

Here is the process flow used when a malicious content or packet is detected by the IPS:

• Send an alert/alarm to the configured notification admin users
• Drop the malicious content/packets
• Block the packet from the source
• Reset the connection from the source

It helps in preventing the exposure of our network to the outsider activities such as:

• Enumeration
• Scanning
• Flooding
• Spoofing
• Detect and Prevent Evasion
• Buffer Overflow attacks
• Fragmentation attacks

Features of Intrusion Prevention System:

• Real-Time detection and prevention
• Automated response
• Policy Enforcement

Benefits of Intrusion Prevention System:

• Improved Security
• Compliance Assistance
• Speed and accuracy to catch the real-time attacks
• Greater network visibility

Overview

What is Web Security Gateway?

Web Security Gateway acts like a military guard who exhilarates all unwanted or malicious traffic to get into the organization’s network.

Internet and scans the content for threats. The Key purpose of the secure gateway is to protect users from accessing malicious websites that bring numerous threats to an organization. It also guarantees that the organizational Acceptable Usage Policy is being monitored and imposed.

Why do we need a Web Security Gateway?

Formerly, organization’s business operations operate primarily inside the company’s network. Nowadays, because of the dependency on remote workers and cloud computing, users are highly exposed to several Security threats. Sometimes the users can access the company resources on Cloud without using the VPN, which brings high-security risks to an organization. Web Security Gateway acts as a proxy with content inspection, hides Source/Destination IP from both sides, and other security features help users keep out of Web trend threats/ malicious websites.

Key Features of the SWG:

• Single connection for each browser session
• IP Masquerade
• Anti Virus/DLP/App Control
• DNS Security
• Deep Content Inspection

Benefits of Using Secure Web Gateway:

• Improved Business Regulations and Compliance
• Blocks access to malicious Websites/Content
• DNS Security
• Improved Remote Worker security by imposing the organization’s acceptance policy or compliance
• The overall Increased Security Posture of an organization

How can Insoft assist you?

Insoft has certified Professional Engineers who are specialized in Deploying, Implementing, and Configuring the Secure Web Gateway for the organization with more than seven years of experience.

Some of the key benefits of the package:

• Better security by having optimized and improved configuration
• Capability of In-house Engineer performing the operational activity
• Achieving the needed compliance about the product

Overview

What is FWAAS

Firewall as a service is a term used for the cloud firewall. A cloud firewall is a firewall like NGFW with all the security features offered by the firewall plus some additional vital benefits, mainly deployed in the cloud.

Nowadays, most organizations move from traditional network architecture to Cloud infrastructure because of the benefits they get from Cloud architecture. Cloud firewalls keep the traffic secure from and to cloud infrastructure. It also offers more benefits compared to the traditional NGFW. It provides most of the security features that the NGFW delivers and additionally, it offers better Deep Packet Inspection. Above all, this is deployed in the cloud and can be adjusted based on the size, configuration, and security needs of the network/organization. It can quickly expand without human intervention based on the growing bandwidth trend and users´ demand.

Why organizations do needs FWAAS

Nowadays, mostly everyone is moving to the cloud infrastructure because of the benefits they get in the cloud. Organizations can quickly expand the scalability of the firewall based on their usage, no need to spend a lot of time and money procuring the physical appliances and configuring them; get someone trained on the product. The cloud vendor takes care of all the infrastructure of the appliance and the organization will pay only for what they use based on the subscription. You don´t need to worry about spending a lot of money deploying hot/cold/warm sites for the Disaster recovery process.

When an organization has multiple locations or branches, deploying one firewall at each unit would be very costly. Cloud firewalls can protect traffic from anywhere. This makes the better option for the organization with multiple branches.

Gartner estimates that FWaaS will go from $251 million to about $2.6 billion by 2025, considering the current remote worker trend. With FWaas, an organization network that spread across the regions could use a single unified firewall that protects each one of the branches in a different area.

Benefits of FWAAS vs. Traditional Firewall

• Reduced Overall Cost
• Better Scalability
• Better Flexibility
• Improved Inspection and Security
• Simplified Deployment and Maintenance
• Unified Security Policy

Overview

One of the foundational defenses in today’s networks is network access control (NAC). NAC began as a highly structured technology used primarily to help determine network access and establish access control for managed devices.

NAC vendors offer the technology evolved to protect new network architectures.

Modern Network Access Control solutions enable an organization to deploy security policies based on the threat and vulnerability attributes received from the threat and vulnerability adapters in addition to network attributes. Knowledge of threat severity levels and vulnerability assessment results empowers an organization to dynamically control the access level of an endpoint or a user.

Overview

Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) regulates access to applications. It verifies users and devices before every application session. ZTNA confirms the users and devices if they meet the organization´s policy to access the application. As more users continue to work from anywhere, IoT devices deluge networks and operating environments. Thus, constant verification of users and devices is necessary as they access company applications and information. Network administrators should implement a zero-trust access approach and apply the principle of least privilege (PoLP) to protect networks and applications. Zero-trust access requires strong authentication capacity, robust network access control solutions, and ubiquitous application access policies.

Overview

enetration testing is an authorized simulated attack performed against your IT systems based on the results of the Vulnerability Assessment. Penetration testing is also known as a pen test. It is a process of utilizing weaknesses of the system using different tools and figuring out the security issues and business impact based on the results. After successful penetration testing, we can discover and decide on appropriate patches for the system.

Simulate cyber-attacks

This is used to expose both known and unknown vulnerabilities of the system. There are two types of cyber-attacks using automated tools and manual approaches.

System exploitation

A system exploit is a flaw or code that takes advantage of software vulnerabilities or security flaws.

External & Internal Infrastructure

External infrastructure test targets the assets of a company that is visible on the internet example ­ the company website, email, and DNS.

Internal infrastructure test targets the application and system behind the firewall to simulate an attack by a malicious insider.

Web application

Web application penetration testing helps determine the possibility for a hacker to access the data from the internet.

Cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS, GCP)

Cloud infrastructure pen testing helps organizations to improve their overall cloud security. It is designed to assess the strengths and weaknesses of a cloud system which helps to improve its overall security posture.

Point-in-time test or scheduled testing

This is the best practice to keep an organization´s network secure. Point-in-time or scheduled pen testing keeps all application and software patches updated, so no vulnerabilities remain in the network.