If one is supplying management features in the form of service packages a
ISP might offer, far too often companies get pigeon holed into a 'one size
fits all' offering. Specialty items are going to require greater
expenditures on support and engineering folks and certainly cost...
Thanks,
Ron DuFresne
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Bill Royds wrote:
> 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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