Never Let a Threat Pass By: How Immediate Warning Can Help your Firewall Monitoring

Introduction

The need for cybersecurity is more important than ever, with the hyper-connected business landscape of today. A single breach can mean exposure of confidential data, it could impact customer confidence and potentially significant financial loss. Firewalls are your first line of defense against those incursions…but frankly, firewalls work best in tandem with immediate notifications. Whenever an incident is detected, alerting notifies IT teams to take actions immediately and helps prevent problems from causing further negative impact. This blog post will cover the value of real-time notifications in firewall monitoring, and showcase what P J Networks have developed as well as a full setup guide on how to use those alerts.

What Does Instant Notifications Mean?

First and foremost, at their most basic level, instant notifications are the alarms that go off on your phone whenever any nefarious events or attacks have been intercepted by your firewall. The messages can be delivered via several channels such as SMS, email and even with specific applications. Such fast communication catalyzes the teams efficiently, thereby minimizing the time frame where it is vulnerable.

Instant Notifications — Overview

Real-Time alerts — Notifies within seconds of detection

• Custom Alerts: Ability to set alerts according exact criteria or the severity of a threat
• Diverse Delivery Methods: Select how you would like to receive your notification, through SMS or email etc.

Why They are Important in the Context of Firewall Monitoring

Speed of Response

Time is of the embodiment in cybersecurity. Your company’s ability to respond quickly and not let a minor threat spiral out of control into an actual scandal. The instant notifications also let your IT team know the very second of any suspicious activity in order to take swift action.

Minimizing Damage

It also assists in damage control as an instant alert enables immediate countermeasures. For example, an entry of a breaking through can be to block the certain IP address (separate part of network being compromised) etc.

Regulatory Compliance

Types of Industry Have Stringent Cybersecurity Requirements Another compliance requirement is timely notifications, and this necessitates the ability to detect a potential violation as quickly as possible in order for an alert be generated.

Proactive Cyber Threat Management

You can be proactive in cybersecurity because you get instant notifications. This allows IT teams to find and address vulnerabilities before bad actors can exploit them.

P J Networks Notification System

Well, P J Networks knows that to rent firewalls or server switches and all the routers for them is an inexpensive method of getting your business online. By using our rental products and alerts you can have an early warning system of threats.

Features of P J Networks System

• Rental Device Integration: Compatible with the rentals of our firewalls, servers and routers.
• User Interface: A simple dashboard to ease the configuration and customization of alerts
• Scalability: Owned by businesses of all sizes, right from small startups to big enterprises

Why Choose P J Networks?

Expert Support: Get expert advice about setting up and configuring notifications from our team of cybersecurity experts.

Customize: Customize notification settings according to your needs and the threat that materializes in this part of the detection coverage.

Light on the Pocket: Get better security measures, without spending a fortune buying equipment.

Case Studies

Case Study #1: Retail Business

The firewall and server were rented by a mid-sized retail company from P J Networks. A global customer got home over the weekend and were alerted in record time by our instant notification system that an IP was trying to breach their database. This quick action headed off a potential data breach, thereby preventing the business from enduring expensive financial and reputational damage.

Case Study 2: Financial Services Firm

Case: A financial services firm had problems achieving regulatory compliance and they decided to rent our firewall and router. A strange sequence of failed login attempts triggered our real time notification system for their team. This immediate response also meant that the financial data at PHI Central had never been vulnerable to attack and had remained compliant with regulatory standards.

Step 4: Set Up Instant Alerts

Using P J Networks to configure instant notifications is pretty easy. Take action to protect your business.

Step 1: Go to your Dashboard

Sign in to your P J Networks account with control panel access.

Step 2: Go to the settings of Alert

Identify and click the Alert Settings tab from within your dashboard.

Step 3: Select your Notification Type

Choose how you’d like to receive notifications It is then automatically verified by being sent to an SMS, email or even a specific app.

Step 4: Alert Criteria Mode

Set the rules for what will trigger an alert. Some choices you could be thinking of include threat levels:

• Intrusion attempts
• Out-of-the-ordinary data transfer volumes
• Multiple incorrect logon efforts

Step 5: Configure Escalation Plans

This way you will establish an escalation protocol guaranteeing your team receives its critical alerts on time and doesn´t miss them. This could mean several layers or stages of alerts from the IT team up to higher management if not resolved in a timely manner.

Step 6: Test the System

Before you go live, please test it to make sure the notifications are functioning properly.

Step 7: Review and Update Regularly

This ensures the notification settings remain in-time with even a changing threat landscape, and evolution of their business.

Conclusion

Cybersecurity is at the top of every organisation’s list in this day and age. Timely response to threats can be the difference between a secure network and an expensive breach. The availability of instant notification ensures rapid response, mitigates potential loss and most importantly helps meet mandatory compliance. Our notification system is compatible with P J Networks rental firewalls, servers and routers so you get a top-class solution at an affordable price. This is how you can keep your business protected all the time and never be unaware of a threat that comes your way.

A sound notification system is more than just a best practice—it’s something you need if your sharpening cyber skills. P J Networks allows you to rent the technology required, backed by an alert system which keeps informed about potential threats before they are capable of endangering your business.