Advanced threat protection (ATP) refers to a category of security solutions that defend against sophisticated malware or hacking-based attacks targeting sensitive data.

Advanced threat protection solutions can be available as software or as managed services.

ATP solutions can differ in approaches and components, but most include some combination of endpoint agents, network devices, email gateways, malware protection systems, and a centralized management console to correlate alerts and manage defenses.

There are three primary goals of advanced threat protection: early detection (detecting potential threats before they have the opportunity to access critical data or breach systems), adequate protection (the ability to defend against detected threats swiftly), and response (the ability to mitigate threats and respond to security incidents).

To achieve these goals, advanced threat protection services and solutions must offer several components and functions for comprehensive ATP:

Real-time visibility – Without continuous monitoring and real-time visibility, threats are often detected too late. When damage is already done, response can be tremendously costly in termsof both resource utilization and reputation damage.

Context – For true security effectiveness, threat alerts must contain context to allow security teams to effectively prioritize threats and organize response.

Data awareness – It’s impossible to determine threats truly capable of causing harm without first having a deep understanding of enterprise data, its sensitivity, value, and other factors that contribute to the formulation of an appropriate response. When a threat is detected, further analysis may be required.

Security services offering ATP typically handle threat analysis, enabling enterprises to conduct business as usual while continuous monitoring, threat analysis, and response occurs behind the scenes. Threats are typically prioritized by potential damage and the classification or sensitivity of the data at risk. Advanced threat protection should address three key areas:

• Halting attacks in progress or mitigating threats before they breach systems.
• Disrupting activity in progress or countering actions that have already occurred as a result of a breach.
• Interrupting the lifecycle of the attack to ensure that the threat is unable to progress or proceed.

The IDS is an intrusion detection system, used to identify unallowed access to the network. The SGA Works as a sensor that allows us to inspect in depth the data in transit in the network of the client, thanks to this we can identify attacks, malicious traffic, etc. This type of solution must work together with a Firewall because the IDS does not have the functionality to block an attack, only to identify it.

The validation of traffic occurs by two different methods that allow us to have a very wide panorama of validation, these methods are:

Heuristics: Determines normal network activity, such as the order of bandwidth used, protocols, ports, and devices that are generally interconnected, and generates alert about variations.

Advanced signatures: Scans all packets on the network, and compares them against known, preconfigured attack patterns. These patterns are called signatures. Due to this technique, there is a period of time between the discovery of the attack and its pattern, due to the hardware configuration of the sensor this validation occurs almost in real time.

The implementation of this solution does not imply modification of the client's existing infrastructure configuration.

Our IDS and IPS solutions, based on proprietary and open source solutions, allow for a combination of heterogeneous, synchronized and centrally managed and combined systems as well as integration with traffic reconstruction systems, firewalls, honeypots, etc. In addition, of course, we count on the support of the facilities we have built and the sites and infrastructure that they protect today, being one of the most robust solutions in the market.

With the growing dependence on technology, with more and more information circulating on the network, information of great relevance for organizations such as electronic invoices. It is becoming more and more necessary and essential to have mechanisms that protect this type of information.

Security Gateway Appliance (SGA), fulfills this purpose. It has features that allow you to protect your networks in a comprehensive way. Provides protection to your communications and your equipment from a single device. In addition, we have different models to protect from small networks to very complex corporate networks.