The Customer's problems and needs
- Legacy equipment of the existing corporate data transfer network (CDTN)
- Failure of the existing CDTN to comply with the current performance and resiliency requirements
- Need to upgrade the existing CDTN to meet the critical information infrastructure requirements
- Need to optimize the network architecture of the customer's branch offices
Tasks
- Creating a modern failsafe "transport" network for the CDTN
- Implementing the CDTN cryptographic protection means
Implementing an information security subsystem in the CDTN based on firewalls - Implementing a subsystem for centralized collection and processing of information security alerts from the CDTN equipment
- Implementing a subsystem for centralized authentication, authorization, and audit
- Upgrading the existing CDTN without shutting down business-critical services
Solution
- Full-scale design of a failsafe, secure CDTN
- Project documentation development
- Creating a resilient topology ensuring 100% backup of the CDTN components and communication channels
- Integration of the upgraded CDTN with hardware at the core level of the network connecting the headquarters and branch offices
- Deployment of the server for centralized authentication, authorization, and audit based on TACACS+
- Integration of the AAA server with the customer's domain infrastructure
- Implementing mechanisms for centralized authentication in CDTN hardware of the headquarters and branch offices
- Implementing a system for centralized collection and storage of information security alerts based on the ELK stack
- Migration to the upgraded CDTN without interrupting business-critical services of the customer
Benefits for the Customer
- High-speed access to information within a single information environment
- Significant acceleration of communication between employees of the customer
- Easy CDTN management, scaling, and operation
- Lower spending on the network infrastructure maintenance and operation
- Guaranteed availability of business-critical services thanks to the resilient CDTN architecture
- Automated control and collection of data on the CDTN equipment operation
