Next-Gen Cybersecurity Solutions to Mitigate Risk & Maximize ROI

Absolutely! Cyber threats are not size-discriminatory. Even small businesses hold valuable data – customer information, financial records, intellectual property. In fact, small businesses can be particularly vulnerable due to limited resources for cybersecurity. Copper Digital offers scalable solutions to fit your specific needs and budget, ensuring your business stays protected.

Cybercriminals are constantly evolving their tactics. Common threats include:

• Ransomware: Attacks that lock your data and demand a ransom for its return.
• Phishing: Deceptive emails or messages designed to steal passwords or sensitive information.
• Malware: Malicious software that can damage your systems or steal data.
• Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks: Attempts to overwhelm your systems with traffic, making them unavailable to legitimate users.
• Supply Chain Attacks: Exploiting vulnerabilities in third-party vendors to gain access to your systems.

Compliance with industry regulations like PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) or HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) is crucial for businesses handling sensitive data. Copper Digital can help you understand the relevant regulations, assess your compliance posture, and implement security measures to ensure you meet regulatory requirements.

Absolutely! Cloud security is a vital aspect of our services. We understand the unique challenges of cloud environments and have expertise in securing cloud-based data and applications. We can help you configure your cloud environment securely and monitor it for potential threats.

Yes! Our Managed Security Services (MSS) program is designed for businesses like yours. We act as an extension of your team, handling the ongoing monitoring, threat detection, and response for your cybersecurity infrastructure.

Firewalls like software applications need to be constantly upgraded to close loop holes with increase attack surfaces. Firewalls have evolved over time and have kept pace with change in intrusion patterns.

Firewalls are broadly four types:

1. First Generation Firewall: Packet filter/Stateless firewalls primarily are focused on attributes related to source and destination network addresses, protocols and port numbers.  The firewall policies are in a list with the last policy either allowing or denying the packet based on implicit or explicit policies. If the packet matches the firewall policies, its passed. However if the packet does not match the firewall policy, then its either dropped or blocked. The challenge with stateless firewall is that it needs additional configuration and additional return traffic policy. Additionally Packet filter firewalls open random ports such as FTP and use “one size fits all approach” that exposes it to rogue packets as intruders can bypass the policies.
2. Second Generation Firewall: The stateful firewall offsets the short comings of the first generation firewall by monitoring traffic over a period of time based on the 5 tuple check and the connection state. In case the connection between the end points does not behave as intended or the return traffic does not match the incoming traffic,  the firewall blocks the connection. Additionally, any packet that neither matches a know conversation or does not match the fire wall policy, its blocked! Even with this evolution, the stateful firewall cant block rogue packets considering the proliferated use of HTTP by web applications, E-commerce sites, file hosting sites as they all use the same port numbering. This makes it impossible to recognize legitimate traffic by the firewall. Hence a network administrator has to manually approve or deny the request!
3. Third Generation firewall: Third generation stateful firewalls are better evolved to looker deeper in the data payloads and also understand the application layer policies through application layer filtering and decipher protocols like FTP, HTTP and DNS. This helps identify traffic through the HTTP protocol such as web browser traffic, VOIP, Email, file sharing, ecommerce and even blogging. The UTP firewall also provides antispam antivirus capabilities in addition to Intrusion Protection System to detect malicious activity. Virtual Private Network strengthens protection by encrypting the connection with the remote network.
4. Next Generation Firewall: Next generation firewalls provide heightened level of protection that previous generation of firewalls don’t cover. NGFW is based n rules based engines that check packet and grant permissions. Next generation firewalls conduct deep packet inspection to check for malicious code and network usage. It can issue alerts, block, reroute and log action followed by sandboxing the content. This implies a change in the era of firewall applications which are now proactive, and control applications based on classification or users. NGFW induct segmentation to align suers and devices that are for specific business needs there my eliminating a single point of entry. State of are AI/Ml model are executed to enforce security policies.

NAC stands for Network Access Control/Network Admission Control based on IEEE802.1X standards based on the client device, authenticator and the authentication server. The purpose is to regulate the use of BYOD and IT end points and protect the every increasing attack surface. NAC ensure that devices that are compliant and have the required permissions can enter the corporate or the private network. Through NAC, guests devices and user devices are provided access based on the security policies and are restricted to the specific applications and resources.

The most effective way is to deploy third generation Sandbox, in order to isolate application and detect unknow vulnerabilities. Earlier generation sandboxes have limited to no capability on detecting unknow vulnerabilities. The third generation Sandbox technologies are rigged to other security sharing  technologies to updated threats detected based on the MITRE proposed ATT&CK framework.

Edge firewall is now considered a legacy technology. Next generation firewalls are power by Web Application Firewall to protect against SQL injection, cross site scripting file inclusion and security misconfiguration. WAF is powered by AI models that is further bolstered by additional capabilities to block DDoS attacks. It has built in capabilities of an Antivirus, Data Loss Prevention and IP inclusion.