Web based services can often contain information that is deemed sensitive or private. Data protection is also a major consideration these days.

So when we were asked to design and build a high availability web solution involving sensitive information security was the main concern, especially since the system was accessed via the Internet.

We designed a secure web portal with the following features.

• Security Screening Routers with ACLs
• Various brands of firewall
• RADIUS / ACE authentication and accounting
• Resilient Internet access using BGP4 routing
• Remote out of band management platform
• NTP time on all devices
• Content switching for global site selection
• Local load balancing across servers