Securicom's diversified artillery offers complete protection against IT threats

With the decisive expansion and diversification of its artillery over the past two years, IT security specialist, Securicom, is one of only a handful of South African technology companies to offer a complete, end-to-end range of fully-hosted and managed IT security services.

Its holistic suite of services provides comprehensive weaponry and proactive defence against the host of threats that afflict businesses today.

“Our end-to-end range of security solutions is fully-managed and hosted by us upstream, where they are monitored 24x7x365 by our team of security experts. We are the only provider to offer end-to-end, managed IT security in the cloud,” says the company's Operations Director, Dries Morris.

Securicom offers its services on a subscription basis so there is no capital outlay for clients. Because its solutions are hosted offsite, there's less risk to client networks. Attacks and malicious content are intercepted and blocked long before they reach the subscribing company network.

Securicom's arsenal extends from an advanced Web-based security scanning service, Securi.Scan, which performs regular vulnerability assessments of Internet-facing infrastructure to detect vulnerabilities, and its advanced e-mail hygiene and archiving service, ePurifier, right through to its robust Managed Firewall service and the powerful Web security service, WebSecure, which inspects, filters and cleans inbound and outbound Web traffic to combat browser-based threats such as bots, phishing, and other malicious active content.

All Securicom's solutions utilise world-leading technologies, which are innovatively packaged together for their individual strengths and combined with Securicom's expertise, to deliver comprehensive protection against known and emerging threats.

“Over the last five years, the ways and means of attacking data have become more sophisticated and continue to evolve at an alarming rate. We've made it our mission to stay ahead of these advancements, constantly improving our knowledge and developing our weaponry so that we can meaningfully assist companies in their defence,” says Morris.

According to him, there is a big move towards adopting a managed IT security services model among companies of all shapes and sizes.

“Companies are realising that the IT security environment is rapidly and constantly changing as information systems evolve, Internet usage grows, workforces become more mobile and cyber criminals become more sophisticated. New vulnerabilities crop up every single day. Many organisations, even bigger ones, are just not equipped to keep up.

“You have to eat, drink and sleep security in order to fully understand it, recognise the vulnerabilities and put up a meaningful defence. This is what we do, and by doing so, we take the burden off organisations that simply do not have the necessary resources in-house to do so,” he says.

Although Securicom has what its team of specialists considers to be a complete, end-to-end solution to the plethora of IT security challenges facing companies today, Morris says they're not complacent.

“We know that IT security is a continuously moving target. We've got our eye on it and we're agile and flexible enough to add to our artillery in order to meet new challenges,” says Morris.

In line with this mentality, there are a number of other services already on the roadmap for 2012 to further enhance Securicom's position as the leading provider of end-to-end managed security services. Some of the services on the roadmap are Managed Network Access Control, DataVault cloud storage, on-premise Vulnerability Assessment services and Managed Endpoint service.

“Cyber crime is a scourge of modern day business and just one isolated attack can bring a company to its knees. Organisations need to understand where they are vulnerable and have the necessary security mechanisms in place,” concludes Morris.