Which would you rather have watching your network security?
Your local IT jack of all trades who spends most of her day recovering deleted Word
files?
or
pay a professional IT security guy to watch your network connection (and 100 others
to catch patterns) 24x7.
For anything under a government department or Fortune 500, that is your choice.
A good Managed Security Provider will work with a client to develop a security policy,
establish the security needs and procedures, and provide the personnel support to
achieve this. For some companies, it might mean a regular staff person during working
hours who handles policy and local support, with a MSP providing management outside of
office hours, installation and hardening and installation of patches and monitoring
of alerts.
A firm should be able to work out a service contract that fits the firms needs. Most
firms are not in the IT business, so the security expertise is certainly not in-house..
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Zachary Uram
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 17:59
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Ron DuFresne; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Managed Service Providers
i don't understand what someone would rely on an outsider to
manage their security structure?
it seems this is best handled on the inside (with firewalls, IDS,
etc..). and if you are just one of many customers won't you get
less intense/frequent scrutiny than if you had your own dedicated
security staff person whose job is to manage your network
security?
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