Acme Incs Perimeter Security Proposal

Format:

The format for the project paper is an APA compliant word document file with a minimum of 1800 words in the paper body.

Scenario:  

You are the lead of a Cybersecurity consulting firm called WeSecure, LLC. You have been hired by Acme, Inc to recommend methods and solutions to improve the perimeter security of Acme, Inc, a publicly traded multi-national Acme, Inc. 

Acme, Inc has five (5) locations: 

New York City, NY
Los Angeles, CA
Chicago, IL
Olympia, WA
Paris, France

Using the background information provided below prepare a fully detailed proposal on methods and solutions to improve Acme, Inc’s perimeter security. Your proposal must include: 

• Any new devices (e.g. firewalls) or services (e.g. Managed Security Service) you are proposing
• Summary pricing for a 5-year term of usage
• Any applicable services you are proposing (e.g. penetration test)
• Installation activities/costs
• Training activities/costs
• Justification for your proposed solutions
• Any other information you feel is valuable

Background Information:

Here is some additional information regarding Acme, Inc to help you better understand the problems you are trying to solve.

General Info:

• Acme, Inc is a publicly traded multi-national corporation.
• Acme, Inc sells software to higher education companies. This software runs in geographically dispersed data centers. They must be highly available (99.99%) to support their customer’s uptime requirements.
• Acme, Inc has a history of acquiring different firms over time, however, these firms often have different security solutions employed and different levels of security readiness. Acme, Inc typically has left these acquiring firms IT infrastructure in place as opposed to integrating them w/ the broader Acme, Inc IT systems.
• Acme, Inc is open to reconsidering this strategy. In fact, the Acme, Inc CIO has been considering implementing a centralized IT governance program which it might use to consolidate and streamline how it supports IT throughout the  company.
• Acme, Inc is open to reducing the number of vendors and products it must be trained on. This is costing the Acme, Inc a significant amount of money in training and support.
• Acme, Inc has a mostly Cisco routing/switching infrastructure, however, it does have several sites that leverage Juniper switching/routing equipment.
• Acme, Inc is open to suggestions on new perimeter based security technologies it has not implemented in the past. They are also open to Managed Services models.
• Acme, Inc always buys full support and maintenance from vendors for at least five (5) years. 
  Acme, Inc employs eight (8) Cisco CCNPs or higher, and 15 CCNA’s or higher, as well as one (1) Juniper JNCIE, and nine (9) JNCIA’s who have been with the Acme, Inc for more than 20 years.

Recent Problems:

• Acme, Inc believes it may be recently had one of its data centers penetrated but is unable to confirm this occurred.
• Acme, Inc is highly concerned this will happen again.
• Acme, Inc is severely concerned about increase in spam recently.
• Acme, Inc has employed a variety of different desktop based antivirus solutions but still seems to get infected many times each month – many times at recently acquired firms.
• Acme, Inc has employed Web Filtering software at the Los Angeles and Paris locations, but is not happy with the current web filtering products it has employed (Websense).
• Remote users have complained about it taking a long time to setup and authenticate their remote access sessions via VPN. Remote Users includes those who work from home (non-mobile), a mobile sales force, and remote IT. All remote connections must be fully secure.