Managed Security Services

Protecting your network, servers and data from malicious attacks and accidental security breaches can be expensive: it’s time consuming, demanding highly skilled personnel and extended coverage hours.

Unfortunately it’s also a vital aspect to your business’s viablility. It’s simply no longer an option to ignore the impact to your business posed by viruses, malware, denial of service attacks, data theft and a myriad of other threats. And, increasingly, legislative and business reputation considerations demand that companies demonstrate clear, auditable, security policies and practices.

The need to be on top of monitoring and responding to threats and alerts 24x7 can be overwhelming. For many companies, patch management alone consumes hundreds of man-hours per month. So, without help, you have a choice: expensively skill up, diverting existing resources away from driving your business; or face the world with inadequate security and put at risk the integrity of your business.

There is another way – by working with Centiq and using Managed Security Services to fill those gaps it doesn’t make sense to fill yourself.

Working with Centiq helps you not only to define the most appropriate security policies for your business (based on your business imperatives, unrestricted by technical expediency) but to implement them via an optimal mix of your own resources and an outsourced Managed Security Service. Backed by IBM’s dedicated security team with its world-leading X-Force(*) analysis service, Centiq’s Managed Security Services deliver 24x7 monitoring and proactive management of your systems: pre-empting and avoiding threats; highlighting and addressing issues as they arise.

Centiq’s security services delivered by IBM’s Internet Security Services, can deliver a truly comprehensive ‘one-stop-shop’ offering. Alternatively we can provide discrete aspects, dovetailing with your own internally resourced processes where that makes most sense for you. This might mean perhaps incorporating existing security schemes and products in our service, or covering those hours when it doesn’t make financial or management sense to do it yourself.

Clients using MSSF experience savings of up to 55% compared with equivalent in-house resourced systems and piece-part third party programs and support.

We recognise that security needs can vary dramatically from company to company, perhaps more than any other aspect of IT, and responsibility spans beyond the traditional IT boundaries.

But to start the journey to see how a Managed Security Service can help you best address your security needs, click the Security Scan tab to learn about, and then request, a confidential Complimentary Security Health Scan (an ‘ethical hack’) of your network. Or click the Request Callback button to begin the discussion right now.

For more details on the Complimentary Security Health Scan please download the factsheet.

(*) The X-Force team is IBM Internet Security Systems’ world-renowned security research organisation, which performs industryleading, proactive research on software vulnerabilities and the attacks targeting them, monitoring and gathering security intelligence from more than 5,000 sources around the globe. The X-Force Certified Attack List includes the most critical security threats and is updated regularly. Since 1996, the X-Force group team has discovered more major software vulnerabilities than all other commercial organisations combined, in close cooperation with other research labs and government agencies.

(**) Money-back protection warranty — As the only security provider offering true pre-emptive protection, IBM Internet Security Systems is also the industry’s only provider that can offer a money-back protection warranty. IBM Internet Security Systems provides companies using IBM’s Managed Protection Service with a cash payment of US$50,000 for any security breach resulting from a successful attack listed on the IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force® Certified Attack List. As a result, our clients rest assured that their security provider has a vested interest in protecting their infrastructure.

As an IBM Internet Security Services (ISS) and Managed Security Services (MSS) partner, Centiq is able to offer its customers a complimentary and confidential Security Health Scan (an ‘ethical hack’)

Identify where risks exist

A critical first step in proactively securing your IT infrastructure and ensuring business continuity is to understand your existing network security vulnerabilities. To help gain visibility into areas on the network which pose potential security risks, IBM ISS is offering customers, through its business partners, a complimentary Security Health Scan. This service allows you to obtain detailed, actionable information about your current security posture:

• Detect network vulnerabilities before they impact business operations
• Identify strengths and weaknesses of current security practices
• Help safeguard the confidentiality of business data, improve business uptime and address regulatory compliance requirements

Information you can trust

Organisations that take advantage of the Security Health Scan from IBM ISS will receive access to the IBM Virtual-Security Operations Center (Virtual-SOC), a Web portal that provides up-to-the-minute statistics and information regarding the current state of an organisation’s security posture in order to:

• Identify security issues found in servers, firewalls, switches and other networked equipment
• Experience first-hand the benefits of IBM ISS preemptive protection capabilities
• Increase internal awareness around potential threats and the need for advanced security intelligence
• Help create justification for future security investments

This limited time offer is for one IP range (up to 25 IP addresses) or up to five individual IP addresses. Addresses will be scanned one time per week for up to four weeks.