Hi, I’m working in a company as a programmer. Recently the company had been having some problems on their security so I decided to propose the installation of another server which didn’t run on our LAN so the security problems could be fixed. They accept my purpose but now I’m dealing with another problem. My knowledge in computers is very good, I have installed networks before but never entered in the security setup. I know how Firewalls work but the company I think needs more than a simple Firewall.
The company recieves important information from various sites and this information have to be secured. Some sites don’t have their own servers or can’t install a VPN connection with us.
As soon as the information reaches our server we have a permantent connection with our LAN Server which processes their information. The connection established with our LAN Server is secured and also the information running through this connection is encrypted. But if somebody else could get inside this new server could also get inside our LAN Server. So we have two issues the first one is that the information from the sites come secure to this new server. Second nobody else from a list of sites could have access to our server.
I’ve been thinking of installing a Firewall but I don’t know is this is the best solution. If so which should I look for. Another idea was to send certificates to the sites connectiong to us so we could authetify them before they enter our server. If this could be done how could I do it.
Please if you could help me up I would really appreciate it.
Thank you
Best Regards