Secure Systems

 

COMPUSEC
Computer Security (COMPUSEC) involves protecting computer systems against penetration, eavesdropping, data alteration, or disruption by unauthorized persons. BESTEQ works with our clients to specify your security requirements. Although public awareness of the need for security in computing systems is growing rapidly, current efforts to provide security are unlikely to succeed. Current security efforts suffer from the flawed assumption that adequate security can be provided in applications with the existing security mechanisms of mainstream operating systems. In reality, the need for secure operating systems is growing in today’s computing environment due to substantial increases in connectivity and data sharing.

BESTEQ’s technical personnel are certified to assess the threats to your computer systems, identify the possible outcomes of a security breach, and assess the likely costs consequent to a breach. BESTEQ’s technical personnel focus on real threats rather than theoretical threats. We identify proven and effective security techniques that include both physical computer systems access and physical environment access that can be implemented quickly and inexpensively.

Computer Systems Access
Security in a data communications environment means different things to different people. In contemporary computer network environments there are four fundamental objectives that BESTEQ closely works towards with our clients:

  1. Confidentiality - ensuring that computer systems are not disclosed or revealed to unauthorized persons. This is often known as low probability of detection (LPD).
  2. Integrity - preventing unauthorized access to the system, sometimes referred to as low probability of interception (LPI).
  3. Availability - ensuring that legitimate users are not unduly denied access to resources.
  4. Legitimate use - ensuring that resources are not used by unauthorized persons or in unauthorized ways.

Physical Systems Access
In addition to the computer systems access that is required for a secure environment, physical access to buildings, offices, and laboratories is required. BESTEQ develops leading-edge security with the use of Smart Cards and physiometrics (sometimes known as biometrics) that measure a physical characteristic such as a fingerprint to ensure the identification of the person accessing a facility or a network.