Gruve’s Design and Enablement service offering enables your organization to effectively deploy a vast array of cybersecurity products in your network. Our experts can create a design, a test plan, and an implementation plan which can be used by your IT team, supported by Gruve, to deploy the relevant security tools. From a pilot implementation to a complete production deployment, Gruve is available to support you in any way we can.
Identity solutions are foundational to an organization’s approach to cybersecurity. Correctly designing and implementing these solutions is critical to the overall security of the IT infrastructure.
Network Access Control (NAC)
NAC solutions such as, Cisco ISE or HPE ClearPass, act as the first line of defense for users and endpoints attempting to connect to your corporate infrastructure. Utilizing a NAC solution enables your organization to implement additional security features such as least permission access, segmentation, and incident response.
Identity Access Management (IAM)
Solutions used to manage identities such as Entra ID and Okta are a key component of an organization’s security infrastructure. When configured correctly these solutions will ensure effective enforcement of the your security policy.
Multifactor Authentication (MFA)
Multi Factor Authentication is now a requirement for most applications accessed by users. Effectively enabling an MFA solution will facilitate a smooth user experience and will only further your organization’s security posture.
Endpoint security concerns which endpoints can connect to the network and the detection of/response to malware. Our endpoint security services are focused on designing and effectively implementing these solutions to protect your organization against diverse and sophisticated attacks.
Remote Access VPN
Remote Access Virtual Private Networks enables endpoints/users to connect to your corporate network from remote locations.
SSE
Secure Service Edge is the next stage of evolution of remote access. It enables remote users to be continuously secured by your organization’s security policies, whether they are accessing internal or public resources. SSE solutions include the following next-generation features:
Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)
Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)
Firewall as a Service (FWaaS)
Cloud Secure Web Gateway (SWF)
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) 
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
Endpoint detection and response tools such as CrowdStrike and Cisco Secure Endpoint can be used to proactively block and respond to threats directly on user’s endpoints. The functions these tools perform include but are not limited to:
Threat Detection
Forensic Investigation
Incident Response Our design and enablement services offer deep experience in every aspect of network security. Our team of networking professionals can help you identify the desired technology based on your organization’s skills, security requirements, and business outcomes.
Next-Generation Firewalls
Firewalls are the original network security tool. By filtering traffic entering and exiting your network as well as traffic transversing your network, we can limit the surface area of network attacks. Next-generation firewalling, IPS and IDS, systems provide further insights into network traffic, detecting and preventing certain types of traffic which would be allowed by a traditional firewall. Some of the new features provided by next-generation firewalls include but are not limited to:
Threat Intelligence
SSL/TLS Decryption
Malware Detection
Deep Packet Inspection
DNS-Security 
Segmentation
As a network grows, and more devices are onboarded the surface area available to an attacker grows exponentially. By implementing segmentation between devices which do not require communication the blast radius of any individual exploit can be dramatically reduced. Segmentation is the foundation of Zero Trust Network Access Solutions.
Operating a secure network requires security operations tools such as Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and Security Orchestration and Automated Response (SOAR) platforms. These tools are used to identify and respond to security threats. The effective implementation of these tools enables your organization to efficiently meet the required security posture.
Security Information and Event Monitoring (SIEM)
SIEM tools are critical in identifying security threats. By correlating logs from various sources, threats can be identified and then remediated. Gruve can help design and implement these tools effectively, reducing the time your organization needs to identify and respond to threats. SIEM tools perform the following high-level functions
Data Collection
Data Consolidation and Correlation
Apply Data Policies
Notifications/Alerts 
Security Orchestration and Automated Response (SOAR)
Security Orchestration and Automation tools enable remediation workflows to be defined and automated. These workflows can guide your security operations team to respond to threats correctly and consistently, allowing automated threat response when possible. SOAR tools perform the following high-level functions
Threat Intelligence Management
Case Management
Security Automation
Security Orchestration 
Gruve upgraded 208 servers, in the largest ISE environment for wired networks and Remote Access VPN, to the latest Cisco hardware with zero downtime. This allowed the customer to secure access for about 600,000 users. Our change management facilitated new feature implementations, and we set up a pre-production environment with 48 servers for testing. Collaboration with Cisco TAC ensured rapid resolution of critical issues and seamless operations.
