
How does a Firewall protect your network?
Many have compared firewalls to the front door of your network. For modern workloads, the traffic demands are so great we need to think much bigger. The firewall is more like an enormous suspension bridge for a superhighway that connects your island (your network) to the mainland (the internet). The internet is filled with suspicious and malicious characters that want access to your network, but it's also filled with necessary and extremely helpful resources your organization needs to access. Traffic is constantly flowing between your network and the internet and the firewall is the first point of security to keep unwanted traffic out. It discerns who should access the network and who shouldn’t. Even when traffic is permitted it goes through multiple levels of inspection to try and ensure only safe traffic is allowed to your network.
How do we help?
NSI brings decades of firewall expertise to help organizations design, configure, and optimize the firewall to your environment. Our team sizes and selects the right models, configures to best practices, and builds tailored policies for access control, intrusion prevention, malware defense, DNS protection, identity enforcement, and security intelligence. We also enable the encrypted visibility engine, which inspects encrypted traffic without compromising privacy. Finally, we integrate the firewall with compatible tools such as supported endpoint and NAC security tools. The result is a firewall deployment that provides strong protection.
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Our email security solution is built on Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense, a platform designed to protect against today’s most advanced email-based attacks. By leveraging Cisco Talos, threats are identified all around the globe, day and night, and turned into protections that keep your environment safe.
Most email security products capture telemetry based on email only, but Cisco adapts information from a full stack of security controls – including firewalls, EDR, web security, DNS security, and a host of other sources. This allows rapid policy creation that blocks threats and prevents malicious actors from ever reaching your users.
NSI has extensive experience and certification in configuration and management of Cisco Secure Firewalls.
A Modern Approach to Security
Email Security is a powerful security tool on its own, but its capabilities are put to even greater use when working alongside and in-tandem with other solutions.
We recommend you create a unified defense system through integrations that provide complimentary insights and controls such as firewalls, endpoint protection, and threat intelligence. NSI follows a simple assess, protect, and detect/respond model to quickly categorize and discuss your digital assets and the tools you have in place to keep them secure.
Engage with NSI for a free interview-style assessment to follow a standardized approach to network security.
Consider a Bundle
Ready to jump in? Consider a bundled solution. Cloud Protection Suite gives you the tools you need to protect the edge of your network, data center, and cloud instances. User Protection Suite gives you the chance to protect users wherever and whenever they connect with a streamlined experience so they don’t get bogged down figuring out the how. Lastly, level up your monitoring with the Breach Protection Suite to ensure you can detect and responded as needed.
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How it Works.
1. Schedule a Consultation
Let’s isolate specific challenges in your enterprise-level network infrastructure with a Free Gap Analysis that clarifies the path forward.
2. Receive a Comprehensive IT Solution
Close the gap and kick off a digital transformation to meet the needs of your team, infrastructure, and business objectives.
3. Gain Peace of Mind in Your Infrastructure
Feel confident in your best-in-class enterprise network management and reap the benefits of a secure, high-performing environment.
What Our Clients Are Saying…
NSI has been a valued partner over the years. Their staff is top notch in providing the project support and solutions we need to make our business operate smoothly and efficiently. They go above and beyond just being a value added reseller by exhibiting the WHY they do business at every interaction.
Three Rivers Federal Credit Union
NSI performed a concise, informative, and easily discerned wireless survey. We were able to clearly see our strengths and weaknesses in our wireless signal. NSI gave us specific recommendations for changes to our wireless network with clear directions on how to make those changes.
Logansport Memorial Hospital
Every experience with NSI is beyond our expectations. The technical expertise, professionalism, and dedication to customer satisfaction is exemplary, in a world of diminished service.
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