Specialist Services to keep your Network Safe Outsourcing your IT security to Virus Defence Bureau provides a means for the organization to tighten and maintain continuity of security systems maintenance and monitoring using the experience of skilled security specialists at a fixed overhead. Virus Defence can take responsibility for the configuration, management, and monitoring of all key Security software including Firewalls, IDS /IPS systems, Email and Web Content filtering software, Anti Virus, Quality of Service, Vulnerability assessment and remediation tools.

Trends in Enterprise Networks Security

There are three main issues which is making network security an increasingly strategic imperative for enterprises. These are:

Issues to Consider in Maintaining IT Security

• Maintaining and monitoring IT Security across a network has become a demanding, time consuming exercise in some cases representing many hours of an IT Administrators time.

• With the ever changing and developing nature of threats it becomes increasingly difficult to have the necessary defences in place to counter these in time.

• It is also a challenge to keep up to date, with and to find time to fully evaluate, the latest defenses available from the myriad of Vendors and new offerings coming onto the market virtually every day.

• Continuity of IT Security maintenance can be a serious issue if key staff leave, are on holiday or are sick.

• Maintaining network Security has become a critical function and finding and retaining staff with sufficient knowledge and expertise to effectively handle the task on an ongoing basis is becoming a challenge.

• It can sometimes be difficult for an IT department to be objective about an internal security breech and an outside impartial view might be seen as beneficial to IT and Company Management.

• Security must be aligned with business objectives, excessive levels can constrain the enterprises ability to function effectively as a business, and security needs to be applied in a measured fashion to balance business needs with network protection.

• Given the complexities and liabilities involved would there be benefits in passing the responsibility to an outside experienced Security organization?

What are the Advantages of a VDB Outsourcing Arrangement?

The proposal for Virus Defence to take responsibility for IT security provides a means for the organization to tighten and maintain continuity of security systems maintenance and monitoring using the experience of skilled security specialists at a fixed overhead.

VDB can take responsibility for the configuration, management, and monitoring of all key Security software including Firewalls, IDS /IPS systems, Email and Web Content filtering software, Anti Virus, Quality of Service, Vulnerability assessment and remediation tools.

Key Benefits can be outlined as follows:-

Cost Justification

• The investment in VDB providing composite Security Outsourcing is typically less than supporting in house Security staffing or service provision will be at a considerably higher level for similar costs.

• Economies of scale (i.e. one resource, person, and process serving multiple customers) typically offers a lower cost per customer as against maintaining in –house security resources.

Staffing Continuity

• VDB will provide qualified staff to undertake specific regular functions as per the Statement of Work.

• Thus your IT staff leaving, taking holidays, or sickness will not impact the IT Security functions

• Also because the IT security functions are being maintained externally, existing IT staff will be freed from these time consuming tasks, allowing them to perform other beneficial activities of importance to the organisation.

VDB Staff Skills and a Quality Security Solution  

VDB Security staff are dealing with security as a full time process, and as such are involved with multiple security incidents across a wide range of clients every day. This expertise will be available to your organization to allow more experienced, tighter control of Security with the ability to take a broader view of a problem and a potentially more effective remediation.

Objectivity and Independence  

On many occasions issues and incidents that arise relate in some way to internal functions or an internal Security breech, and it could be seen as beneficial to have an experienced impartial outside party to make a considered recommendation on a resolution to particular issue.

IT management can obtain peace of mind in knowing they have passed responsibility to an outside party to look after their Security.

Security Awareness

VDB staff spends time on a daily basis keeping up to date with new vulnerabilities, new hacking tools, security products and new software releases and this expertise is available to the outsourcing client, in terms of recommendations for additional protection and future security strategies.

Security Service Improved effectiveness

Security Solutions such as Firewalls, Intrusion detection and preventions systems (IDS, IPS) work much more effectively if they are managed and monitored by professionals. For example when an intrusion is attempted VDB can immediately set up blocks against future attacks and speedily resolve any issues caused.

Ensuring software is always up to the latest patch or revision that blocking, filtering rules are properly configured and that vulnerabilities are quickly identified and patches installed will minimize the organizations susceptibility to attack or compromise.