Cyber Security Partner

Cyber attacks are not just limited to business hours. In order to defend networks and devices against malicious threats and abnormal user behavior that might be indicative a data breach, our Security Operations Center (SOC) operates continuously 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. We have invested heavily in ensuring the right technology and the right staff work in conjunction to keep your data and, by extension, your business safe.

Security Monitoring and Compliance

The costs surrounding a cyber attack or data breach are continually growing. In 2017, Cyber attacks targeting businesses nearly doubled, and cyber crimes cost businesses over $600 Billion. Given the recent trends in 2018, this cost is expected to rise. Many small-to-medium enterprises simply cannot afford the potential cost an attack could have. US’ National Cyber Security Alliance found 60% of small businesses that are compromised are out of business within 6 months of an attack. For those who remain in business after an attack, if it is found that the organization did not adhere to regulatory legislation, the cost may rise drastically due to fines and legal costs. Security monitoring of your system can potentially save your business millions of dollars and ensure regulatory compliance. The Nerds That Care will not only prevent costly attacks but save you money.

our Experts

The experts who staff our 24/7 SOC are responsible for four tasks that help ensure not only our ability to detect and respond to threats, but our consistency to evolve in the face of an ever-changing threat landscape. Including:

• Applying threat intelligence from the automated detection programs

• Monitoring user behavior to detect inside threats

• Understanding how threats attack, preferred vectors of attack

• Ability to hunt new forms and methods of attack

Identify, Block threats + Become compliant:

• Port scans, host scans, denied scans, sudden change of traffic between certain IPs or anomalies in traffic
• Network server/device and admin log on anomalies– authentication failures at all times and unusual IPs
• Network access irregularities from VPN, wireless log ons and domain controllers
• Account lockouts, password scans and unusual log on failures
• Rogue endpoints, wireless access points
• Bot-nets, mail viruses, worms, DDOS and other “zero day” malware identified by cross-correlating DNS, DHCP, web proxy logs and flow traffic
• Abnormalities in web server and database access. Become compliant with most regulations such as: PCI-DSS, SOX, GLBA, FDIC, HIPAA
• Full Log management: long term storage, archival and retrieval
• Raw log storage, archival and retrieval
• Event Log Correlation and Threat Intelligence
• Log and alert analysis
• 7 year log retention policy
• Infosec incident report
• Executive Summary and Compliance report • 100% US based • SOC 2 Certified

Managed Security and Firewall (MIDPS)

Managed Intrusion, Detection & Prevention Services are integrated into a security appliance, and responsible for detecting anomalous, inappropriate, or other data that may be considered unauthorized on your network. MIDPS enables the Nerds Technical Assistance Center to capture and inspect all traffic and detect, alert and block for security threats including; volumetric DDoS attacks, enumerative IP scanners, remote application privilege escalation, SQL injections, automated exploitation tools, and other application attacks.

Dedicated Managed Firewall & VPN

Dedicated firewall appliance/configuration
24x7x365 management & monitoring
Routing, ACL, VPN, DHCP, DNS, and NAT
Ongoing firewall customization
Up to five VPN connections
Up to 50 customized firewall rules
ACL, NAT, dynamic rate limiting, Layer7 mitigation rules
Additional professional services hours available
Additional VPN connections

Managed Firewall – Intrusion Detection & Prevention

All features of dedicated firewall,
IDS & IPS management, alerting, and remediation
WAF capabilities with Layer7 Security/DDoS protection
Built in mitigation rules for OWASP top 10, and multiple 3rd party feeds
East/West traffic monitoring for internal networks, and DMZs
Anomalous traffic pattern detection – Dedicated Palo Alto firewall appliance

DDoS Monitoring & Mitigation

24x7x365 monitoring of volumetric DDoS
10 global scrubbing nodes with private cross connects to Nerds network
Automated attack mitigation up to 600Gbps with clean traffic routed through to production
Customizable profiles for monitoring & mitigation based on applications, traffic, and packet rate
Customizable Email, SMS, and More
Does not require any additional network integration

Nerd Alert: RED FLAGS

Before you become the victim of a cyber security attack, there are very clear red flags, you can look for, to protect your data and organization from falling for email scams. As mentioned, even with all the advances in technology and as sophisticated as hackers can be, the number one way cyber attackers are successfully infiltrating a business’ system, is through user error and clicking on malware links. These are just some of the red flags to look for before clicking on a potentially dangerous link.

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