With the volume of traffic the data center processes coupled with extensive consumer and corporate facing services hosted within the data center reaching critical mass and importance; the need to provide 99.999% availability, absolute confidence in a total secure software, platform and infrastructure (the three primary principles of a private cloud) and providing the right security expertise when it comes to telco data center security strategy all played a key role in the selection of DTS Solution.

Having successfully rolled out next generation data center security platforms and architecture across many other ISP’s – DTS Solution brings the knowledge, expertise and vision on how next generation data center security should be designed; ensuring technology longevity, increased user and session tracking capabilities, advanced security through application identification and proactive detection and prevention of anomalous and suspicious activity.

The Next Generation Data Center Security platforms deployed across a multi-tiered security architecture are based on Fortinet FortiGate UTM and Juniper Networks SRX secure platforms that are fully virtualized, integrated into ISP MPLS Core, providing private cloud Security as a Service (Sec.aaS) for all its applications/services that are serving internal and external users – be it employees, B2B partners or consumers.

“Our commitment to deliver the best-in-class security services to ISP customers continues to gain momentum – we at DTS Solution understand the security challenges a typical ISP faces on a daily basis. ISP’s need to shift to the offensive security model as they are constantly subject to security attacks” mentioned Shah Sheikh – Co-Founder and Sr. Security Consultant @ DTS Solution.

“With our experience and expertise – this exact offensive security model can be realized through practical means in next generation data center environments. Furthermore, ISPs are in a unique position to monetize their security investment by providing Managed Security and Hosted Cloud Security Services to their corporate customers – through the same infrastructure. We are delivering this exact capabilities for the ISP we are engaged with, not only are we providing them advanced technology based security solutions, but also providing a complete framework for securing next generation data centers. Our objective is also to ensure that security services are aligned to business needs and marketing trends to help our client stay ahead of their competition.”

Shah Sheikh – 01/11/2012

DTS Solution having strategic partnership with Fortinet; strengthens it footprint of delivering best-in-class security technologies and professional services, demonstrating our vast experience and expertise in the field of information and network security. DTS Professional Services team specializes on Firewall Migration Services – through years of experience of migrating firewalls from one vendor to another in highly critical and complex environments; utilizing a proven methodology as part of the migration steps, thorough iterative validation process, in-house firewall configuration migration scripts, automating configuration validation and ensuring attention to detail, have all played a crucial role in the ISP’s selection of DTS as a partner for this project.

Looking for different options on replacing legacy Cisco PIX IOS firewalls that were no longer under vendor support was a straightforward choice for the ISP – given Fortinet’s reputation on ASIC based firewall technology that provides extreme high performance on firewall services through optimized Network Processors (NP) and Security Processors (SP) custom FortiASIC chipset. Having met performance requirements for the scaling data center and networks the ability to prevent security threats using Anti-X, IPS and Application ID and Control technologies all part of a single solution was also a winning factor. With the technology identified, finding the right partner that has the expertise and experience not only with Fortinet and Cisco but more importantly understanding and developing migration procedures, checklists and ultimately delivering a smooth migration with minimal business impact in highly critical and complex environment was a major deciding factor towards DTS Solution.

To learn more about Fortinet security solutions and DTS Firewall Migration Services contact our sales team (sales@dts-solution.com).

Shah Sheikh – 07/10/2012

Security Landscape and the use of DDoS;

DDoS attacks can range in many different forms;

• Volumetric Attack – flood the network pipe (TCP SYN Flood as an example).
• Dynamic Attack – using DoS as a tool to generate additional DoS attacks – high volume of HTTP requests translates to high volume of SQL queries.
• Asymmetric Attack – initiating an enormous amount of download request from a large network of botnets – i.e. download or stream a particular video stream.
• Application Level Attack – HTTP get requests for particular object files or URL retrieval

DDoS attacks on the rise;

DDoS attacks on organizations have exponentially grown over the last few years as illustrated below; not only increasing in the number of attacks but also in the scale of the attack and now ranging to multi-Gbps of DDoS volumetric attacks.