It has been said there is no such thing as a totally secure system. This may indeed be true but what is much more realistic is that the amount of unsecure systems and networks out there is astronomical.

A number of our consultants and partners have worked in these areas for many years using various applications, both commercial and open source. At OpenView Consultancy we can provide the tools and training to go a long way towards the goal of the "totally secure system".

The area of security training falls into 2 main categories, Intranet Security and Internet Security.

Intranet Security

Intranet security is dealing with the security of the network and systems within an organisation. Our experience has shown that sometimes administrators can become a little lax in this area thinking that their firewall will protect them from all manner of menace. Indeed, this may be the case, but studies have shown that a large amount of damage is done from within an organisation.

OpenView Consultancy provide advice and training in a number of open source and commercial tools to enhance Intranet security including:

• Securing System Access via the OS
  
• Remote Host Authentication
  
• Securing Network Services
  
• Securing User Accounts
  
• System and Resource Monitoring
  
• Securing Physical System Access
  
• Password Protection Using Crack
  
• Password Protection Using John The Ripper
  
• Application Security Using sudo
  
• Monitoring File Access with Tripwire
  
• Log monitoring Using swatch
  
• Configuring Role Based Access Control

Internet Security

Internet (or Extranet) security is concerned with protecting your organisation from outside access whilst still providing the required network services such as Web servers, FTP servers and email facilities. Normally this involves the use of a firewall, the design and implementation of which is essential for any organisation.

Also data encryption across the Internet is an essential feature for any business to employ. VPN's, secure web, ftp, email and login access are all areas in which OpenView Consultancy have a wealth of real world experience.

Training and consultancy services can be provided around a range of commercial and open source applications including:

• Sun Screen EFS
  
• Checkpoint Firewall-1
  
• IPF
  
• Penetration Testing Using Nessus
  
• Nmap
  
• OpenSSH (Secure Shell)
  
• Secure Tunnelling Using IPSec
  
• Secure Apache Configuration
  
• Secure FTP Access