Module 4

Derick B. Peterson

Dr. Junior J. Gentles

Stratford University

Cyber Security Capstone (CIS 595)

May 3, 2015

With the rise of hackers infiltrating companies private information, security is the number one priority in protecting personal and business private information, during this technology era the usage of internet in the last 15 years has quadruple and cybercrime has also risen with the steady flow of the usage of the internet. People not only use the internet to view videos or entertainment they now used the network also is being used to pay bills such as mortgage payments, paying credit card bills, and many other things. Not to mention when you make purchase at these department stores you mainly use your credit card for purchases. Hackers has become so skillful in obtaining private information that securing your information is an everyday task.

The network infrastructure that I chose to for the banking security issue will be the Barracuda NG Firewall provides a powerful and extremely reliable detection and classification of more than 1,200 applications and sub-applications by combining Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and behavioral traffic analysis – no matter if the protocols are using advanced obfuscation, port hopping techniques, or encryption. It allows the creation of dynamic application policies and facilitates establishing and enforcing acceptable access and use policies for users and groups by application, application category, location, and time of day. Administrators can now:

Block unwanted applications for certain users or groups Control and throttle acceptable traffic Preserve bandwidth and speed-up business-critical applications to ensure business

continuity Enable or disable specific application sub-functions (e.g., Facebook Chat, YouTube

Postings, or MSN file transfers) Intercept SSL-encrypted application traffic

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Deep Application Context

The deep application context analysis allows for deeper inspection of the application data stream by continually evaluating the actual intention of applications and the respective users. By this means administrators can gain detailed insight into what a specific application was used for or if a user was trying to circumvent the corporate application usage policy.

Personalized Application Control

On top of the 1,200+ applications that are delivered out of the box and constantly updated, the Barracuda NG Firewall provides a way to easily create user-defined application definitions for best-in-class application control customized and tailored to an organization’s specific needs.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-03-13/target-missd-alarms-in-epic-hack-credit-data

https://www.barracuda.com/products/firewall/features#SUB