Archive for January, 2010
Barrier1 Provides on board Network Analyzers to Identify and Trouble Shoot Root Cause
Network Trouble Shooting with Barrier1 Brings Fast and Accurate Results
When it comes to maintaining performance and speed in today’s networks, visibility to both the inside of your network and the carrier is crucial. All play a role in delivering quality service. Each party must provide honest troubleshooting and share the results. Telco’s and ISP’s must be up front with their customers.
Barrier1 has included network sniffers for that reason. Barrier1 customers, with the help Barrier1 tech support, can find the root cause, Thus eliminating the finger pointing. This speeds up the discovery process and is what the customer is really asking for. After all, they just want to find the problem and then fix it.
Over the years, Barrier1 has identified issues that were originally thought to be the firewall but in fact turnout to be the upstream ISP or Telco. Barrier1 has identified such issues as bad DSL modems, faulty switches, faulty interfaces on the T-1 muxes, Telco or ISP routing issues, and even hijacked IP address from an ISP. In all of these cases without the help of on board network sniffers, finding root cause would have taken days and would have added to the frustration levels.
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PCI Compliance
PCI Compliance
The later part of 2009 PCI Security Stands Council issued a set of new guidelines. This version 1.2.1 does bring clarity to a couple of previous gray areas.
The gray area for compliance was using a 3rd party for payment processing. Of course 3rd parties were subject to standards. The question was if the organization performing the work or service and accepting payment via credit would be exempt. It now clearly states that “ALL SYSTEMS COMPONENTS, SYSTEM COMPONENTS ARE DEFINED AS ANY NETWORK COMPONENT, SERVER, OR APPLICATION THAT IS INCLUDED IN OR CONNECTED TO THE CARDHOLDER DATA ENVIRONMENT. THE CARDHOLDER DATA ENVIRONMENT IS THAT PARTO OF THE NETWORK THAT POSSESSES CARDHOLDER DATA OR SENSITIVE AUTHENTICATION DATA. NETWORK COMPONENTS INCLUDED BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO FIREWALLS, SWITCHES, ROUTERS, WIRELESS ACCESS POINTS, NETWORK APPLIANCES, AND OTHER SECURITY APPLIANCES. PCI COMPLIANC ALSO IS REQUIRED IF THE PAN NUMBER TRANSITS ANY PART OF THE NETWORK.
Barrier1 with its comprehensive inspection including Web Application Firewall is PCI compliant. In additional steps, Barrier1 includes 1 complete network vulnerability assessment with yearly licensing and support renewals.