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Minimizing Risks to your Network, Users and Data

Managed security solutions are gaining momentum by offering advantages related to…

  • Scalability

  • Availability

  • Extensibility

  • Accessibility

  • Maintainability

Firewalls have been a mainstay issue of IT security for more than 20 years and their primary function, making inbound/outbound decisions on user and application data. Firewalls now offer capabilities that support full protocol stack and policy enforcement/management that is light years ahead of the early days of access control list (ACL) as the primary control.

The Drivers to Outsource Security Management

In recent years, industry research has found a growing interest in outsourcing security management to third parties.

What is driving people to managed security services? Cost is a significant factor, and today's economy will keep this issue top of mind for the next few years. A more significant factor, though, is lack of skills. Even if organizations can afford staff, they often just can't find them. The thought that "we could do it just as well ourselves" is often not the case.

The next most commonly cited driver is availability of 24 x 7 monitoring and support, both a cost and staffing issue.

Techcare's team has security and network operations specialists, with tools and resources that allow them to efficiently update software, monitor logs and tweak rule settings for firewalls and other security devices to continually manage risk by balancing openness with protection.

The Bottom Line

The bottom line is that the lack of internal skills can be the weak link in your security policy. For many smaller organizations, security meant you have a firewall, VPN and passwords. While that may have been adequate in the past, a good security system should be multi-layered:

  1. Inspection

  2. Protection

  3. Detection

  4. Response

Contact Us - and find out how Techcare will manage your existing network and data security and assist you in determining the best security strategy that minimizes the risks to your data, network and users.