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Cisco Security/VPN Consultants: Help from CCIE and CCNP Certified Experts
Cisco's security solutions for small to mid-sized businesses offer a complete range of manageable security products and technologies to help safeguard your wired and wireless network infrastructure. Cisco's extensive product line for security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions includes routers, switches, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and VPN access concentrators.
VPNs
Cisco offers several options for implementing a VPN solution, so you can choose the approach that best fits your business requirements. You can implement both remote access and site-to-site VPNs with Cisco IOS Software, through software and Advanced Integrated Module (AIM) hardware encryption cards, or with hardware appliances, such as a VPN concentrator, router, Cisco PIX Firewall, or dedicated VPN server for dial-up services. Cisco VPN solutions are easy to manage and provide the flexibility to evolve with changing business requirements.
Products Included in Cisco's Security Solution
Cisco has a comprehensive line of products aimed at preventing information theft, virus and worm outbreaks, Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, and other threats to your network. Categories and products include:
Secure Connectivity
  • VPN appliance (Cisco VPN concentrators and clients): Dedicated hardware or software device for setting up and managing VPNs
  • Switch based (Cisco Catalyst switches): Identity-based features integrated into switches
  • Router based (Cisco routers): VPN features integrated into routers
  • Extended perimeter security
  • Firewall appliance (Cisco PIX Firewall): Dedicated hardware or software device to permit or deny access to the network or applications
  • Router based: Firewall functions integrated into routers
Intrusion Protection
  • Network-based appliance (Cisco Security Agent): Dedicated hardware or software device for detecting intrusions on the internal company network
  • Host-based software (Cisco Security Agent): Dedicated hardware or software device for detecting, mitigating, and reporting intrusions on hosts
  • Firewall sensor: Sensor within a firewall to detect and report intrusions at the network perimeter
  • Switch sensor: Sensor within a switch to detect and report intrusions at the switch
  • Router sensor: Sensor within a switch to detect and report intrusions at the router
Identity Services
  • Cisco Access Control Server (ACS) using RADIUS and TACACS: Centralized user access control framework for user authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) from a graphical Web interface
Secure Management and Policy
  • CiscoWorks VPN and Security Management Solution (VMS v2.1)
  • CiscoWorks Small Network Management Solution (SNMS)
  • Embedded device managers for security devices such as PIX Device Manger (PDM)
How Synesis Can Help You with Cisco Security Technology
Synesis can provide a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) or Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) to help you select, deploy and support Cisco security technology. Our CISSP and CISM certified security consultants can advise you about how to design security into your business processes.
Synesis can help you develop a written security plan to establish clear security policies, install scanning and auditing software, define and implement a secure network architecture that implements products from diverse vendors, provide Microsoft ISA Server consulting, and recommend procedures to optimize the safety of your network. Our security expertise is available to help you configure a firewall, set up secure remote access to email and data and implement virtual private networks.
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