Solutions

Network Monitoring and Management

Your Firewall guards your digital perimeter…but who guards your Firewall? Who ensures your anti-virus solution is up-to-date, carefully analyses your IDS log files, proactively guards against emerging threats and responds when things go wrong?

Far to often the answer is “nobody”, and even when already stretched IT staff are assigned to a digital and information security, they frequently don't have the time or training needed to build and maintain an understanding of this complex and frequently changing field.

What's more, unless you operate round-the-clock it's also likely your IT department work normal office hours too, yet a new virus emerges every hour and the average time from vulnerability exposure to exploit code is now less than six days. The bad guys don't work nine-to-five…can you afford to?

Time isn't the only thing an in-house security team needs. Effective network management requires effective facilities, and few organisations want to invest heavily in monitoring hardware and software - simply to monitor the hardware and software they've just invested heavily in.

Failure to address these issues causes problems in three critical areas:

• Quality of service is drastically reduced as staff try to juggle security responsibilities with user or network support, and struggle to deliver in either area.
• Even after security hardware and software has been purchased, capital outlay is significant and ongoing costs are unpredictable.
• Necessary upgrades and maintenance are frequently neglected, and threat monitoring becomes something that only happens during an attack.

Evolution can help you overcome these challenges by providing a fully managed security service, monitoring and maintaining your digital perimeter twenty four hours a day, every single day of the year.

Evolution engineers monitor your network perimeter around the clock, testing for vulnerabilities, patching known holes and scanning for the smallest sign of attack or infiltration.

All Firewall, anti-virus and IDP solutions are linked directly to our Global Command Centre (itself backed up by several regional NOCs), ensuring any attack is detected and responded to instantly, no matter what the time of day. Permanent links between our GCC and your network also ensures upgrades and patches are rolled out on an hourly rather than monthly basis, with all changes being applied by a certified professional, in a controlled fashion.

Outsourcing security management services from Evolution can also deliver huge cost benefits. The expense of acquiring, training and compensating security specialists is removed, and existing IT staff are freed up to concentrate on bringing better communications to the organisation and better value to stakeholders.

Due to our close ties with all leading vendors we can also offer capital spending strategies that are in line with your organisational goals. Leasing options are available, and a single, predictable cost can replace question marks about recurring license fees, upgrade costs and so on.

If you'd like to know more about how we keep our client's networks secure please contact us to arrange a no-obligation consultation .