Businesses are engaged in a fierce battle to protect their business-critical resources and systems from threats both within and outside the organization. Information Technology departments are confronted with the task of increasing security at every access point in the enterprise while being asked simultaneously to provide more points of access into the network, improve LAN and WAN speeds and make it easier for users access company resources from any location. Enterprises today must enable ease of information flow despite mounting security threats and regulations mandating control. Through these efforts to meet seemingly opposing goals, network complexity has swelled to include a myriad of technologies for information safeguarding.

Security management is a highly dynamic process. It entails constant assessment of how network changes and new threats affect security overall and taking steps to minimize negative impact. While no single application can protect every aspect of a company’s information and communication technology, ITG has found some excellent solutions that combine to provide a holistic approach to safely and efficiently protect enterprise systems. In selecting these products, we not only looked at the effectiveness and stability of the products once installed, but the product and installation costs, ease of use, customization features, scalability, cost-effective maintenance and, of course, how they affect network performance and access. 

With this in mind, we encourage you to review our summaries of the following products, dive into the vendor websites for more details, and contact us to talk about the best ways to improve security for your business systems.

Juniper Networks for Firewalls
Juniper Networks for Virtual Private Network Access (VPN)
Blue Lane Technologies for an inline patch proxy for enterprise servers
ConSentry Networks for Network Access Control
RedSeal Systems for Security Risk Management