Businesses need different modes and levels of Internet connectivity, ranging from basic access to the Web from a corporate network, to e-commerce applications and services.
The challenge is on network managers to keep an eye on the security of these network infrastructures.

Cognizant Solutions can help. We will manage your perimeter security infrastructure, including devices, protocols, processes and Internet access links.

Firewall Security Monitoring and Management
Proactive monitoring of firewalls is crucial to the security of your network. That’s why we offer up/down automatic and live notification, network help desk, trouble ticket reporting, Web-based system health and performance reporting, threshold alarming, problem identification and isolation, project management, and remote security monitoring services. We also provide configuration management, and remote administration of your firewalls.

Site-to-Site and Remote Access VPN
Provides firewall configuration to terminate site-to-site and remote access VPN tunnels using the appropriate security authentication.

URL Filtering
Do you prefer limiting access to certain URLs? URL filtering refers outbound HTTP requests to a URL filtering server. HTTP requests will only be forwarded to their destination if they are allowed by your corporate policy.

Firewall Logging Server
Significant firewall events are referred to a logging server. You can log in at your convenience to view and manage the event log.

Network-Based IDS Management
This feature ensures IDS availability, and also provides live notification, problem identification and isolation, project management, fault configuration management, change management, and remote security monitoring of your Network-based Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS). Security management functions include attack signature management, and NIDS software maintenance (patches and upgrades) for NIDS managers and agents.

Host-Based IDS Management
This feature provides status and security monitoring of your application servers. Cognizant ensures IDS availability and also live notification, problem identification and isolation, project management, fault configuration management, change management, and remote security monitoring of your Host-Based Intrusion Detection Systems (HIDS). Security management functions include attack signature management and HIDS software maintenance (patches, upgrades) for HIDS managers and agents.