Managed security service packs a lot of protection into one box
As more and more critical applications and services move to the cloud, organizations are increasingly receptive to the idea of using a managed security service to protect their network and information assets. The number and types of external threats to a network are growing uncontrollably, and unless a company has a dedicated and highly specialized team devoted to network security, it's hard to keep up with the rapidly changing threat landscape. After all, the threats of the Internet are the same for every company regardless of its size.
We recently spoke to Network Box, a company that says it has the only fully managed unified threat management (UTM) device on the market. A customer would place this device at the edge of its network and let Network Box host, manage and analyze a range of fully integrated security functions that complement each other. For example, Network Box has three IDP/IDS applications running inline with the firewall to provide what the vendor calls zero latency. Every packet that passes through the device is scanned and analyzed. This technique allowed Network Box to catch and stop the slammer worm a few years ago when other companies not using Network Box's services were being attacked.
