Supplier Spotlight: Nitel

02/04/2020 12:06 PM By Chuck F

Nitel: Managed Next-Generation Security

Cloud 9 Supplier Spotlight:  NITEL

Explore Four Levels of Security Testing

With cloud, big data and mobile solutions becoming mission-critical to organizations of all sizes, IT teams are struggling to keep up with the adoption and innovation of the latest security best practices, leaving their organizations vulnerable to cybercriminals. And it’s not just large organizations cybercriminals are targeting; smaller companies are just as likely to be attacked. They tend to be easier targets, more likely to pay up in the case of a ransomware attack. They can also serve as a back door into other third-party organizations they do business with.


Although managed security is an investment, many organizations simply cannot afford to not conduct on-going security testing. According to a recent Trustwave security report, 41% of those surveyed feared financial damage to their company in the event of a cyberattack or data breach.


Managed security testing is defined as subscription-based proactive scanning and testing of environment security to identify vulnerabilities. However, a comprehensive managed security solution does more than identify vulnerabilities and weak points.


When working with a qualified managed security provider an organization should not only gain insight into weaknesses, but gain a blueprint on how to prioritize, mitigate and remediate these risks. When your customer engages with a provider of managed security services like Nitel, backed by a cybersecurity Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader Trustwave, they can choose to engage with four levels of testing depending on their budget and business needs, including:
    • Basic threat – Simulates the most common attacks executed in the wild today. This class of attacker typically uses freely-available, automated attack tools.
    • Opportunistic threat – Builds upon the basic threat and simulates an opportunistic attack executed by a skilled attacker that does not spend an extensive amount of time executing highly sophisticated attacks. This type of attacker seeks easy targets (”low-hanging fruit”) and will use a mix of automated tools and manual exploitation to penetrate their targets.
    • Targeted threat – Simulates a targeted attack executed by a skilled, patient attacker that has targeted a specific organization. This class of attacker will expend significant resources and effort trying to compromise an organization’s systems.
    • Advanced threat – Simulates an advanced attack executed by a highly motivated, well-funded and extremely sophisticated attacker who will exhaust all options for compromise before relenting.
Cloud 9 Advisers clientele benefit from Nitel/Trustwave’s crowd-sourced, global threat intelligence through a solution that is scoped to fit their needs. Nitel's intrinsic network knowledge, combined with Trustwave’s highly skilled SpiderLab ethical hacker team, can quickly identify security weak points and guide you to a solution to protect your organization.

Managed Next-Gen Security Solutions

What keps business and IT leaders up at night?
For business leaders everywhere, a data breach is on par with the most damaging things that could happen to an organization. The thought of being the next company to make headlines keeps leaders up at night while IT organizations fight to keep the bad guys out. As threats become increasingly widespread, sophisticated and dangerous, companies look to develop security strategies that protect their environment while staying within budgets that seem to get tighter every year.

Your business is unique, with its own set of needs and priorities. That’s why we offer a suite of security solutions that offers multiple ways for you to protect your business. Whether your business is big or small, whether you value distributed architecture or centralized, you’ll find a solution that fits how you prefer to manage your environment.

ENTERPRISE GRADE PROTECTION

  • Safely enable applications, users and content by classifying all traffic, determining the business use case, and assigning policies to allow and protect access to relevant applications.
  • Prevent threats by eliminating unwanted applications to reduce your threat footprint and apply targeted security policies to block known vulnerability exploits, viruses, spyware, botnets and unknown malware (APTs).
  • Protect your datacenters through the validation of applications, isolation of data, control over rogue applications and high-speed threat prevention.
  • Secure public and private cloud computing environments with increased visibility and control; deploy, enforce and maintain security policies at the same pace as your virtual machines.
  • Embrace safe mobile computing by extending the enterprise security platform to users and devices no matter where they are located.

ROCK SOLID PROTECTION FOR SMB

Our customized solutions deliver next-generation security for every size and type of business. Gain full control and visibility of application traffic passing through your network, even for encrypted traffic, thanks to application detection, user-identity awareness, SSL interception and built-in live reporting.


You benefit from the same critical next-generation security features that large enterprises receive—but sized appropriately for your business. Your business will fend off threats with included next-gen features that take place directly in the data path, including:
  • Firewalling
  • Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDS/IPS)
  • URL Filtering
  • Dual Antivirus
  • Application Control
SECURITY EXPERTISE ON YOUR SIDE

Nitel has partnered with Gartner Magic Quadrant leader Trustwave to complement our managed next-generation firewall service with a suite of security management services. This 1–2 punch creates a comprehensive managed security solution to reduce your business risk and give you peace of mind. With Nitel overseeing your network health, performance and security, you have a single partner working on your behalf to ensure your business operates optimally and safely.

SECURITY INFORMATIONEVENT MANAGEMENT

Achieve more effective identification and mitigation of security threats. You’ll reduce your burden with around-the-clock support from 10 global security operations centers staffed with experts who have in-depth knowledge and experience working with complex network environments for highly distributed organizations.


Our SIEM service collects, analyzes and stores logs from networks, hosts and critical applications. It extends visibility beyond the network perimeter to the application layer, helping you achieve more effective identification and mitigation of security threats, and compliance validation with numerous regulatory and industry standards.


Advantages:
  • SpiderLabs security research utilizing global event data to identify current and emerging threats
  • Industry-leading compliance expertise
  • Solutions tailored to the specific needs of healthcare, financial, retail and more
  • Collects and reviews over 1 billion events per day

Need to maintain compliance with PCI, DDS, HIPAA, SOX, FISMA, GLBA/FFIEC? Let Nitel help. We’ll help you fulfill your requirements for vulnerability scanning, penetration testing and ongoing evaluation of your environments and applications.

MANAGED SECURITY TESTING

Reveal potential vulnerabilities in your environment with thorough penetration testing. Expert “ethical hackers,” armed with the same techniques as today’s cybercriminals, attempt to hack into your network or application to help you identify network-connected assets, learn how those assets are vulnerable to attack and understand what could happen if those assets were compromised.

Contact Cloud 9 Advisers for expert guidance and help with any compliance, risk management, monitoring, edge security and any other cybersecurity issues. We'll guide you to the right vendors, like Nitel, from our Supplier Portfolio

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