Student: School: Course: Instructor: Term: Date:
Richard.Railey Tarrant County College ITSY-2401 Firewalls Charles Deassure Spring 2013 May, 1, 2013
Overview Current Situation
Main Security Concerns: As a rapidly growing business that primarily utilizes IT resources for intranet company communications between and among a single home office and three satellite offices; internal network access controls and remote employee user’s access controls seem to be of primary importance. Priority number one should be hardening and the safeguarding of access and data integrity of the Oracle database servers housed as the main office in Reston, VA. And separately at the San Diego satellite office A comprehensive security policy will be developed and approved by management that will detail the specific guidelines administrators must follow when allowed admin access to company IT resources and services, and when and how those permissions should be denied or allowed. Additionally, auditing and logging of critical events should be implemented utilizing a reliable SEIM (Security Information and Event Management) system. Moreover, control of user access from remote sites via the company intranet via VPN’s and remote access via RADIUS should be strengthened and monitored for both qualitative and quantitate analysis and measuring. Cryptographic techniques will be enhanced and login and password requirements will be strengthened. Of significant importance is the company web presence and corporate access to its knowledge base portal within the company intranet. The company web presence is of vital importance to allow customers to access information concerning the company’s products and services. The knowledge portal is vital for company employees to have access to propriety information while protecting their confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the data. We will separate and hardened both the web server and the knowledge portal via