Qwest's Managed Firewall Service (MFS) safeguards internal networks and systems from unauthorized access and hostile activity, protecting your Agency's critical data from compromise and tampering.  It is the first line of defense between your Agency's trusted internal networking environments, Demilitarized Zones (DMZs), and external and public networks. Qwest's MFS inspects traffic according to your Agency's set of defined security policies, blocking all traffic not meeting your Agency's criteria.

Features
Qwest's MFS provides an extensive list of features, including but not limited to the following:

• Perimeter protection designed to mitigate unauthorized access
• Perimeter protection designed to limit unauthorized outbound traffic
• Real-time activity log analysis
• Robust Security Information Management (SIM) System for correlating and detecting security threats
• Combined suite of technology, processes and trained security engineering team necessary to implement, monitor and manage your Agency's defined firewall security polices from a 24x7x365 Security Operations Center (SOC)

Benefits

• Backed by a Qwest team of certified data-security professionals
• FISMA (Federal Information Security Management Act) compliant
• Rapid response to information security changes through firewall rule sets and system configuration changes
• Activation and management of secure remote access (when incorporated in the firewall)
• Backed by a Qwest team of certified, data security professionals
• Early warning threat mitigation combined with real-time network statistics alerting
• SIM Agent enables correlation of multiple security devices and a near real-time dashboard with drill down capability for improved security monitoring