Introduction
West Suburban bank has worked hard to protect its customer information and the related data that is provided to the bank in order to business with them. In collaboration with Perimeter E-Security Company, West Suburban bank has excellent network security system that recognizes the threats within seconds and figures out a solution to fix the problem. Perimeter E-Security offers excellent information security and messaging services helping many businesses to secure their data from unauthorized users. West Suburban bank took advantage of the services provided by Perimeter E-Security as well in order to protect the assets of their clients.
There are hundreds of defense methods however for this paper our major focus will be on the six defenses used by West Suburban bank in order to provide best security services to its clients and protect its information. We will be looking at firewalls, data security, Internet security, application security, access control and anti spyware defenses.
Firewalls defense
Firewalls implement security at every layer. Firewalls are barriers between a trusted network or PC and the untrustworthy Internet, it is a network node consisting of both hardware and software that isolates a private network from a public network. On the Internet, the data and requests sent from one computer to another are broken into segments called packets. Each packet contains the Internet address of the computer sending the data, as well as the Internet address of the computer receiving the data. (Turban, King & Lang, 2011, p.361). A firewall will examine all data packets (traffic) that pass through it, like a choke point, and then it will take appropriate action, by accepting or rejecting incoming packets base on the source, destination addresses, and authenticity. Perimeter’s broad security for West Suburban includes gateway defender, allowing the