Security

Yellowstone can provide a variety of security measures to ensure that your data remains safe. These products include firewalls, backup devices, anti-virus toolkits and UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply).

Anti-Virus Software

Yellowstone currently favours Kaspersky Anti-Virus produced by Kaspersky Labs in Moscow. Yellowstone favours this package over other products we have tested due to it's ease of use, high reliability in detecting viruses, ease of update and good network capabilties. We believe it is the best anti-virus product on the market. In conjunction with a close computer consultancy called Computerwise Services, Yellowstone has negotiated a favourable rate on this product for our customers. The cost of the package varies depending on the number of servers and workstations to be covered. The licence is renewable every twelve months and Kaspersky Labs provide free daily downloadable updates to the program, providing you with the most up-to-date anti-virus protection.

UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply)

UPS is an essential complement to any installation involving a server. In the event of power failures, the UPS allows a server to remain running. The UPS uses batteries to maintain the power. In the event of the power not being restored and the batteries becoming exhausted, the UPS initiates a controlled server shutdown. This ensures that the data on your server remains intact and uncorrupted. Yellowstone installs UPS devices made by APC. We will be happy to quote, supply and install a UPS device on your system to ensure that your server stays running so data on it is not corrupted through power loss.

Backup Devices

Yellowstone can supply a range of backup devices and software to provide your system with full data backup security. Depending on the size of your organization, backups should be done anything from once a day to once a week. They should be done using a sequence of tapes in rotation to ensure that you can always recover your data in the case of hard drive failures, hardware theft or accidental deletion.

Our usual backup solution is based on a DAT drive DDS-3 device providing 24Gb of storage. This is controlled through a piece of software called Novabak from Novastor Corporation. However Yellowstone can provide cheaper, or larger capacity systems depending on your needs, as well as other software packages. We can also supply large capacity backup devices such as the Ultrium LTO drives from Hewlett Packard - which hold up to 200Gb on a single cartridge costing under £100. If only the tape streamer itself was this cheap !

Firewalls

    Yellowstone can provide the installation expertise on a variety of firewall products to protect your network from intruders:
  • Personal firewalls (software based only) - e.g. McAffee Personal Firewall (£50)
  • Hardware devices which connect between your network and your router / ISDN modem - e.g. A 3COM hardware firewall (£400)
  • Large PC-based firewall solutions - based on the Check Point Firewall-1 product (about £2000)

Firewalls are 100% essential for leased lines, cable modems and ADSL circuits, and fairly advisable for any particularly active dial-up connections. In our experience a permanent connection to the Internet can attract 300+ outside attacks per day. Without a firewall your privacy may be extremely compromised.

Once these products are supplied they must be set up correctly and periodically tested and monitored to ensure that they are functioning correctly and protecting you from outside attack.

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