earthwave

Secure Internet Gateway

Intro

The earthwave Secure Internet Gateway (SIG) is the market-leading solution for enterprises seeking outsourced management of their secure Internet connectivity and hosting requirements. By maximising the value of best-of-breed and market-leading technologies in an integrated, easy-to-manage monitoring environment, SIG offers a cost-effective strategy for establishing a secure operating platform for key digital business assets. SIG includes all the hardware, software, maintenance, 24x7 technical phone support, around-the-clock security management, monitoring, reporting and access to breaking security news.

With award-winning products, highly trained personnel, and time tested processes, earthwave delivers a comprehensive SIG solution that provides executives with peace of mind knowing all their critical information assets are secured while also lowering the total cost of ownership for their security infrastructure.

Earthwave's Secure Internet Gateway is a scalable, highly redundant end-to-end secure Internet gateway service enabling both government and corporate enterprises to confidently conduct on-line business.

The service is modular and caters for multiple layers of security and options. Depending on your security posture, risk profile and budget the SIG is further customised, designed, deployed and delivered to meet your specific security needs.

The earthwave Security Operations Centre is the only facility to achieve the internationally recognised AS/NZS 7799.2:2003 security standard as well as the ASIO-T4 and Defence Signals Directorate Gateway Certification "Protected" and "Highly Protected" levels.

The earthwave Secure Internet Gateway offers the following services:

  • Diverse and redundant Internet links with secure BGP Internet peering.
  • Multi-tiered firewall design segregating networks with different security classification. All firewalls are on the DSD EPL list and all firewalls are EAL-4 certified. These firewalls separate the Unclassified, Protected and Highly Protected segments.
  • 3DES or AES IPSec encrypted WAN links from all major carriers.
  • Inbound and outbound Network Intrusion Prevention protecting the SIG and connected clients from traffic traversing the Internet, DMZ, and WAN segments.
  • Distributed denial of service protection.
  • IPSec and SSL remote access VPN integrated with RADIUS or RSA two-factor user authentication.
  • Mail, Spam and Content filtering.
  • URL and Web Filtering.
  • Reverse proxy.
  • Real-time network monitoring and management.
  • Real-time threat analysis and incident response.
  • Secure Mail.
  • Secure hosting.
  • Secure Off-Site Backup.

Features & Benefits

  • Guaranteed connectivity to and from the Internet through multiple carrier, fully redundant infrastructure and environmental systems
  • High bandwidth availability through Ethernet, Fibre and ATM carrier connections
  • Highly secure physical environment allowing only authorised personnel access to client systems
  • ASIO T4 accredited facilities providing redundancy in the telecommunications, environmental and utilities infrastructure
  • DSD certification to connect up to and including highly protected data to public uncleared networks
  • Scaleable gigabit network throughput giving the organisation guaranteed network performance
  • Consistent defence against malicious network traffic through unique infrastructure design and accredited policies, response plans and operational procedures
  • Industry leading data mining, correlation, and external threat verification & response systems, and the largest commercial database of known threats and vulnerabilities in the information security world
  • Incident response by security analysts with significant experience in intrusion detection, systems monitoring and forensics
  • Customised reporting on a range of the organisation's network and security activities
  • Stringent configuration and change control procedures ensuring any requests are properly authorised, and assessed against potential risk to ensure client connectivity
  • Complete service visibility through the earthwave MSS Client Portal as well as service co-management by the customer with controlled management access via portal.