Avoid Becoming Information Highway Road-Kill.Business Editors AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 18, 2000 Did you know that over $4.5 billion is lost each year due to telecommunications fraud and over $300 billion is lost due to industrial espionage industrial espionage Acquisition of trade secrets from business competitors. Industrial spying is a reaction to the efforts of many businesses to keep secret their designs, formulas, manufacturing processes, research, and future plans. ? Would you bet your job that your network is secure? Spohn &Associates, Inc., a leading provider of data network solutions to Fortune 500 companies, introduces today NetAUDIT. Realizing the cost of security breach, Spohn's information security professionals designed NetAUDIT, a five-step security assurance methodology to provide customized, end-to-end network security solutions to prevent financial losses and network interruption stemming from network security breaches and competitor's prying pry·ing adj. Insistently or impertinently curious or inquisitive: ignored the prying journalists' questions. pry eyes. &uot;NetAUDIT is a methodology that covers all the bases for clients seeking to understand the vulnerabilities and risks associated with their network,&uot; said Phil Cowell, Senior Security Consultant for Spohn Consulting, Inc. &uot;By working with a client, we use the NetAUDIT methodology to provide a comprehensive network security solution and by knowledge transfer leave their staff with the knowledge and skills to effectively keep their security current. NetAUDIT provides a customized solution that meets their network needs and not a boilerplate A phrase or body of text used verbatim in different documents such as a signature at the end of a letter. Boilerplate is widely used in the legal profession as many paragraphs are used over and over in agreements with little modification or no modification. solution.&uot; Gadgets alone don't provide security. NetAUDIT -- which stands for Analyze, Understand, Design, Implement and Train -- offers a proven methodology for securing diverse global networks, firewalls, detection systems, VPNs, PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) A framework for creating a secure method for exchanging information based on public key cryptography. The foundation of a PKI is the certificate authority (CA), which issues digital certificates that authenticate the identity of solutions, intranets, extranets, business-to-business (B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business ) and e-commerce platforms of all types. Spohn &Associates, Inc. is comprised of two business entities: Spohn Consulting, Inc., which provides business and technical consulting and Spohn Training, Inc., which provides technical training and client specific seminars on data networking topics including network design methods, IP security, capacity planning Determining the required future configuration of hardware and software for a network, datacenter or Web site. There are numerous capacity planning tools on the market used to monitor and analyze the performance of the current hardware and software. , Frame Relay A high-speed packet switching protocol used in wide area networks (WANs). Providing a granular service of up to DS3 speed (45 Mbps), it has become popular for LAN to LAN connections across remote distances, and services are offered by most major carriers. , IP, and ATM. SOURCE: DigitalWork ( http://www.digitalwork.com ) DigitalWork.com -- Your Business Workshop |
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