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Introduction
Security Brigade's Security Hardening service identifies and rectifies implementation and configuration vulnerabilities within your networks, servers and applications. An in-depth process based on in-house research and development along with out-of-box thinking is utilized to identify and remediate implementation and configuration flaws within your environment.
- Detailed Recommendations focusing on mitigating immediate threats and suggesting best-practice recommendations to prevent future events.
- Easily Identify targeted sophisticated attacks against your organization from external and internal threats.
- Improved Confidence and Security among customers, employees and partners.
- Informative Reports focused on helping you understand your information security posture, in-relation to industry benchmarks and expectations.
- Unique Combination of proprietary in-house and industry-leading security assessment tools, processes combined with in-depth analysis of identified vulnerabilities.
Approach
Security Brigade's Security Hardening Service approach is based on best practices and well-developed methodologies while incorporating sophisticated testing software, methodology and experienced consultants - A blend of best practices and proprietary process. In-addition, our continual innovation through research & development ensures a thorough check of your system and application infrastructure.
Our Approach
Our Security Hardening Service methodology is an in-depth process that has been built through experience and thorough understanding of customer requirements.
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Technical Experience
Security Brigade has had the privilege of working with a large number of customers with varied operational environments. As a result, our consultants have broad technical experience and some of the environments we have worked with are listed below.| Operating Systems: Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008, Redhat Linux, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Open VMS, Novell Netware, Open Enterprise Server, Suse Linux, IBM OS/2, Win NT, SCO Unix, SCO OpenServer, IRIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, OpenSolaris. |
| Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, IBM DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase, Access, SAP DB, Interbase, Ingres, Informix. |
| Firewalls: Cisco PIX/ASA, Checkpoint, Netscreen, Watchguard, Sonicwall, Fortigate, Web Application Firewalls. |
| Intrusion Detection Systems: ISS RealSecure, Cisco Secure, Dragon IDS, Fortinet, Snort, Sourcefire, Checkpoint RealSecure. |
| Network Devices: Routers, Firewalls, Switches, IDS/IPS, Load Balancers, Layer 7 Switches. |
| VoIP Devices: VoIP Routers, IP Phones, PSTN Gateways, ISDN Gateways, PBX Gateways, VoIP Switches, SIP Phones, H.323 Gateways. |
| Wireless Devices: Wireless Access Points, Wireless Routers, Wireless Bridges, Wireless Switches and Controllers, Wireless IPS, Wireless Client Devices. |
| Applications: ASP, .NET, PHP, Ruby, Perl, Python, C#, Java, C/C++, Delphi. |
| Web Servers: IIS, Apache, Tomcat, Netscape Enterprise, Caucho Resin Server, IBM HTTP Server, Lotus Domino HTTP Service, JRun, lighthttpd, Oracle HTTP Server, Sun Web Server, WebLogic. |
| Messaging Servers: Microsoft Exchange, Sendmail, Qmail, Lotus Domino, Blackberry Enterprise Server. |
| Others: Microsoft Sharepoint, SAP, Active Directory, ISA Proxy, Squid Proxy. |
| Mobile Devices: PDAs, Blackberies, Notebook Computers, Netbooks, Pocket PCs, Smart Phones, Tablet PCs, Microsoft Mobile Servers, Blackberry BES/MDS Servers. |
| SAP Systems: SAP R/2, R/3, BOBJ, APO, AFS, BW, BI, CCM, CC, CI, EBP, EL, EP, XI, etc. |
In-House Tools for Security Hardening Service
| sdFinder - Identifies internal hosts on non-contiguous IP ranges. It allows us to detect sensitive information about our clients commercial, intranet and extranet networks. | ||||||||
| webDiscovery - Identifies as many applications as possible on Client web-servers. The applications discovered through webDiscovery allow us to provide a superior web application security testing service than competitive services and products. It allows us to increase the scope of the audit and cover more areas that could be attacked by malicious users; that would not be covered by a traditional audit. | ||||||||
| networkMapper - Network Mapper uses proprietary technology to be able to identify alternative network routes to bypass security mechanisms such as IDS/IPS/Firewall etc. It allows our experts to bypass existing security implementations and gain direct access to the systems behind them. | ||||||||
| webTester - Utilizes our Benchmark Development System to ensure that we can identify maximum vulnerabilities in applications through automated mechanisms. Along with flaws that are known, it uses in-house research to test for vulnerabilities that are not in the public domain. It allows us to automate the process of identifying and testing known and unknown vulnerabilities in web-applications and strike a cost-effective time to effort ratio. | ||||||||
| VA Framework - Integrated solution developed by our security experts that have an expertise in the vulnerability assessment domain. It allows us to integrate the manual and automated testing processes with commercial and open-source software. Our Integrated Reporting Engine allows us to cross-reference information from all the different components and generate a report based on our Client's requirements. | ||||||||
| PT Framework - Integrated solution developed by our security experts that have an expertise in the penetration testing domain. It allows us to integrate the manual and automated testing processes with commercial and open-source software. Our Integrated Reporting Engine allows us to cross-reference information from all the different components and generate a report based on our Client's requirements. | ||||||||
| webSpider - Uses advanced HTML, Java Script, Ajax, Flash and XML parsing engines to identify and map as much of the client applications as possible. This not only assists our automated webTester engine, but also assists in carrying out the manual testing process in an efficient manner. It allows us to attain a cost-effective balance between thorough testing and time required. | ||||||||
sapScan - Security and Configuration Assistant for SAP Security Audits.
| riskReview - General Risk Assessment Tool.
| erpInterrogate - ERP Security and Configuration Assessment and Control Tool.
| Windows Batch Scripts - Windows batch scripts to automate routine server hardening functions and processes.
| Linux Bash Scripts - Linux Bash scripts to automate routine server hardening functions and processes.
| Oracle Security Assessment Scripts - Oracle Security Assessment Scripts to automate routine hardening functions and processes.
| MSSQL Security Assessment Scripts - MSSQL Security Assessment Scripts to automate routine hardening functions and processes.
| Internal Vulnerability Database - Automated vulnerability database that is updated every 15 minutes from over 100 public and 20 private feeds.
| SQL Explorer: identifies vulnerabilities in and retrieves data from MSSQL, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MS Access etc database servers. | |
Case-Studies
 | Security Hardening for a Commodities Exchange Security Brigade provided Security Hardening Service for a Commodities Exchange. This case study highlights the process and methodology implemented to harden their trading environment in-line with best-practices and compliance requirements. |
 | Security Hardening for a Telecommunications Company Security Brigade provided Security Hardening Service for a Telecommunications Company. This case study highlights the process and methodology implemented to harden their critical infrastructure to prevent any internal or external threats from being able to access sensitive information. |
| Security Hardening for a Private Sector Bank Security Brigade provided Security Hardening Service for a Private Sector Bank. This case study highlights the process and methodology implemented to harden their critical internal infrastructure to prevent any internal or external threats from being able to access sensitive information. |
Deliverables
Security Brigade's reporting process is industry-unique and aims to deliver maximum value to your organization and the administrations / developers directly interacting with the security audit. Each report is customer-specific and contains detailed information, proof of concepts, source code examples and configuration details with the aim of educating your IT teams for the long-term. The following are some of the deliverables you will receive on completion of a Security Hardening Service.
Executive Presentation Provides a holistic overview of the entire engagement, detailing the issues from an impact and business risk perspective. The presentation is aimed at helping senior management quantify risks and take an informed decision while aligning security with business objectives. |
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Executive Report Provides a high-level summary of the systems, network and applications covered, vulnerabilities discovered and the recommendations made to mitigate the threats identified through the engagement. |
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Technical Report Provides comprehensive information about all the threats discovered on the systems, network and applications. It will include proof-of-concepts, technical explanations, remediation recommendations, screenshots, exploits, etc. |
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Project Summary Report Provides a detailed summary of the engagement, the vulnerabilities identified, recommendations made and current status of the identified issues. |
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Excel Vulnerability Tracker Simple and comprehensive vulnerability tracker aimed at helping the IT asset owner keep track of the vulnerabilities, remediation status, action items, etc. |
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