Recent rumors circulating in newspapers and on social media regarding PTA’s tender for acquisition of next generation and web application firewalls are for monitoring and controlling of national internet and social media are inaccurate. It is clarified that the tender is meant for acquisition of firewalls intended for sole use on PTA’s internal IT infrastructure. The procurement is aimed at enhancing the security of PTA’s internal systems and will be used exclusively at PTA’s primary datacenter and its Disaster Recovery (DR) site.
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Specifically, PTA has issued a tender for the acquisition of four Next Generation Firewalls and two Web Application Firewalls. This move is to ensure robust, layered security for PTA’s internal network and applications only.
