Horizon Network Security

Horizon Network Security specializes in inexpensive Linux-based Spam and Virus filters, hardening Linux servers, including web, mail, DNS, and file servers, conducting network and system security audits, doing Linux system administration for systems around the world, and Adaptive Firewalls with Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs), and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) for mixed-OS networks, network and system security.

We provide 24x7 monitoring and support of Firewalls, IDSs, networks, and web servers for health, attacks, and defacement and provide immediate response by a security expert.

Our Cracker Trap™ Adaptive Firewalls detect Cracker attacks and probes automatically and lock them out permanently in milliseconds, before they can do any damage. We can provide virus, URL, and content filtering with our Firewalls.

We have provided Firewall/VPN solutions with automatic Failover to a backup ISP connection when the primary ISP connection fails and automatic Failover to a backup Linux-based Firewall in case the primary one fails (even though this is a rare event). We have recovered compromised systems (removed Trojan horses and other damage from crackers of systems that we were not asked to harden) and created Disaster Recovery plans for companies, educational institutions, and government agencies around the world.

The number of flaws reported in Firewalls have skyrocketed by nearly 50% over the past four years because System Administrators do not know how to configure them.

Don't fall for an "easily configurable by the client" proposal that does not protect you. This includes Cisco, Windows, Linux, and appliance "solutions". Configuring your own firewall is like doing your own surgery with a "How to" book -- if you're not trained to do it, good luck!

Most of our security audits of sites with Firewalls find that Firewall configuration errors make them almost useless. Our Firewall prices include detailed configuration by a security expert to your requirements. (We also can conduct inexpensive Security Audits to see if your Firewall is doing its job and can adjust the configuration of some so that they do their intended purpose.)

Gartner says that IIS has a much worse security record than competing web servers, such as Apache, and recommends that organizations replace their IIS servers with a more secure alternative. We can help you migrate to a secure Linux Apache web server. Linux is immune from virtually all viruses and worms, unlike Windows.

We offer our CAVU (TM) reliability:
Computer Access and Viability Unlimited.