Data Center Oman

Bahwan CyberTek's Data Centre at Muscat Oman has been designed to be highly robust, modular, and scalable. Security has been a prime-motivating factor behind the design apart from the availability and scalability requirements. The "State-of-art design" incorporates methods to thwart all the different form of attacks that could jeopardize the sense of security.

There are two layers of Packet filtering firewalls that have been incorporated in the design. The front-end firewall is programmed to allow only required traffic. Dedicated VPN hardware accelerator devices ensure that performance is not sacrificed during a VPN connection.

A front-end Intrusion detection system monitors the packets that traverse the DMZ area for any malicious content. A military grade, highly available secure system, " HP virtual Vault", further acts as a deterrent to any malicious activity.

The applications and the database are placed at the backend-militarized zone that is protected by yet another firewall. FTP and SMTP traffic is not allowed into the data Centre, to avoid any malicious intent by way of the loopholes in these services. Changes in the host content are monitored using specialized software which acts as host-based IDS.

Snapshot of Data Centre at Muscat, Oman

• 8 HP 9000 L-Class Servers
• 28,000 transactions per second (tps) performance
• 300 GB data storage, expandable to 1.2 TB
• Redundant servers & software
• Highly qualified personnel
• Established systems and processes
• 7-layers of security through:
  • HP VirtualVault military-grade secure operating system
  • CISCO PIX Firewalls & Intrusion Detection Systems
  • Verisign, SSL 128-bit encryption
  • Application security