Perimetral Security Appliances

By Daniel Grijalva

What's that?

Perimetral Security

refers to the integration of

mechanic and electronic systems to protect physical perimeters e.g. intrusion attempt detection or disuasion techniques at sensible facilities.

Radars, surveillance cameras, fences, sensor cables, microwaves barriers, infrared cameras are some of the methods used.

As an example:

The access to a Data Center is equipped with all the measures described earlier. So, the technologies used for securing the facilities can be...

• Firewalls (Traffic Filtering, Content Filtering, AntiSpam, Intrusion Detection & Prevention Systems)
• Application Firewalls (Applications Control, Service Quality, Traffic Priority)
• Distributed Denial of Service Attacks (DDoS Attacks)
• Event Correlation (Application, Security and Systems Event Management)
• Traffic Balance and Optimization
• VPN/SSL Access (With/Without Strong Authentication)

Services and platforms

• Secutatis solutions
• Cisco ASA
• IBM's IT Perimeter Security

Conclusion

Due to the exponential advancements in technology, it would be irresponsible for a company not to consider protecting its information against many attacks or exploits. Monitoring the activity within its servers and facilities can improve the security of its employees, value and data. Nowadays there are several tools that adapt easily to the company and its processes, so it's just a matter of interest in security to start protecting the business.