Establishing and maintaining the enterprise security is a critical business issue that corporations must endeavor to complete. Today's corporations have a myriad of security holes that need to be discovered and covered. These unsecured holes can lead to hacking attempts, virus exploits, corporate espionage, punitive legal actions, profit loss, identity theft, and a public relations crisis for corporations. There are many areas of information security that must be addressed but all these areas are built upon the foundation of access.

Because today's digital information can be easily obtained if not properly secured and be used in ways that can adversely affect the public there are many United States laws and legislation that have been passed or pending, which are forcing corporations to secure their digital information access and delivery mechanisms.

Connectivity Communications Inc. addresses the need to secure digital information flow by focusing on methodologies that are centered around protecting access to the digital information. The protection of the flow of digital information can be simplified to the need to validate and authenticate access at the all entry points within the life cycle of the digital information flow. The life cycle of the digital information flow includes data creation, data movement, and data delivery. The entry points within this life cycle can include digital information residing in a physical location, within an application, on a computer system, within an intranet, within an extranet, or on the Internet.

Connectivity Communications Inc. provides corporations with industry proven technologies, security focused methodologies, and senior level consulting services for the purpose of reducing and eliminating unauthorized access to business critical digital information and complying with current, and pending legislation relating to Healthcare Information Security, Financial Information Security and Corporate Information Security.

Connectivity Communications Inc. is a proven integrator, installer, and solution provider for many industry leading products in the security vendors. Connectivity Communications Inc. has chosen best-in-breed products that complement our security implementation methodology of securing the entry point access with in the digital information data flow. We have endeavored to select vendors that can secure their specialty areas and have demonstrated a track record of exceeding performance and industry expectations.

• VPN
• Firewall Appliances
• Intrusion Detection and Prevention

Today digital business transactions require a secure method of transmitting the data between business partners, customers, offsite employees, and remote offices. One of the most secure ways to transmit data securely across dedicated lines or the Internet is the use VPN tunnels based on IPSEC protocols. Connectivity Communications Inc. specializes in deploying, managing, and monitoring VPN solutions between many vendors. Interoperability between vendors is a significant challenge when managing VPN's because every manufacture implements the IPSEC protocol differently. So choosing a VPN platform that is most interoperable is the best avenue for success in deploying a VPN strategy.

Connectivity Communications Inc. has selected Netscreen as our primary VPN solution partner. Netscreen has been well establish as a firewall and VPN solution platform and its implementation of VPN communication is extremely interoperable with other industry VPN devices.

In simple terms, a Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a private network that uses a public network, such as the Internet, to connect multiple sites from several different areas by using the public network (Internet) and tunneling protocols to send encrypted data from one address through the "tunnel" to the receiving address. Instead of using dedicated lines for connecting such as leased lines, which can become very expensive, many businesses are turning to secure VPN's as their way of linking remote users together. This secure connection is implemented through software called the VPN client on the remote computer and a VPN gateway/termination device (can be part of the firewall) at the main network.

There are two main types of VPN's in use in many corporate networks, remote access and site to site. A remote access VPN - also called a virtual private dial-up network (VPDN) - is a user to LAN connection that allows remote users to connect to the private network from various remote locations using the Internet. When a company needs to establish secure communications with a trading partner then it typically uses a site-to-site VPN. A site-to-site VPN is an encrypted tunnel that is always active, which allows both ends of the tunnel to securely pass digital information through the tunnel.

One of the most valuable uses of broadband Internet connections is to allow enterprises to connect branch offices, mobile workers and telecommuters into the corporate network with high-speed remote access. A VPN allows an organization to securely connect multiple offices, mobile workers and telecommuters over a public IP telecommunication infrastructure such as the Internet by using encryption technologies. A VPN can give a company the same capabilities as a system of privately owned or leased lines at a much lower cost.

• Attack Prevention
  First in-line device capable of dropping the malicious traffic as soon as the attack is detected, eliminating the impact of an intrusion
• Multi-Method Detection (MMD)™
  Combines multiple detection methods in a single device to maximize the types of attacks accurately detected
• Centralized, rule-based management
  Quick and easy to set up, manage and maintain, providing granular control over exactly how the system behaves with visibility into network threats that make it ensure the network is effectively protected
• Enterprise network integration
  Support for advanced networking features, such as VLAN's for logical interfaces and SNMP for network monitoring systems, to integrate seamlessly into the network

Connectivity Communications Inc. has partnered with Netscreen Technologies to leverage its appliances, knowledge, and research & development to secure information security access at all the entry points within the digital information flow matrix. Connectivity Communications Inc. has experience in deploying Netscreen's multifunction appliances within the IT infrastructure for many industries including healthcare institutions, remote medical offices, financial institutions, mortgage brokerage offices, retail stores, etc. The Netscreen appliances have proven to be a securely hardened device that has tremendous functionality and versatility at a reasonable cost.

• Integrated security solutions
• Stateful inspection firewall
• Robust DoS mitigation
• High-performance IPSec VPN
• Reduces the need for expensive add-ons and licensing

The ease of installation and robust manageability of the NetScreen all-in-one security appliances is complemented by its superior reliability and security capability. Without the inherent reliability issues associated with hard disk drives, appliances have proven to be the best long-term solutions when uptime is important. NetScreen appliances only require configuration and management of the firewall, VPN, and DoS features thus alleviating the need to configure separate hardware and complex operating systems. This limits the time required to install and maintain the security device and reduces the number of setup steps where security holes are often created. This also provides the best environment for remote management of the device because the system is not dependant upon hard drive and OS tweaking. This also provides the best environment for remote management of the device because the system is not dependant upon hard drive and OS tweaking.