Description

Information is the heart of any business or industry. It provides sustenance to organizational units: empowering and strengthening its users as groups and individuals. It can be used for or against us, naturally concerning us with the safety and integrity of our information. If the nature of our information is to be distributed for accessibility, then so must our efforts to secure it. The distributed computing industry has utilized the International Standards Organization’s (ISO) Open System Interconnection (OSI) Model for better standardization of hardware and software components. Some layers have more impact than others when securing information. Together, they can be used to build a comprehensive solution. This project describes network security hardening at each layer of OSI model in primary level using security mitigation technics. Since high end IPS, IDS and ASA firewalls are not available with small to medium scale organizations, this approach would be the efficient and cost-effective way to secure Information systems from inside and outside network attacks.