Strengthen Your First Line of Defense with ETSec's Managed Firewall Services
ETSec reports more than 150 to 250 attempted security breaches on an organization's firewalls, every day. Your production firewalls are the pathway from your local network to the Internet, making them the prime targets for any person or process trying to steal your information and critical assets. That's why you need ETmanage™ Firewall Services.
ETSec, a trusted name in enterprise security, offers its unique ETmanage security service to provide organizations like yours with 24x7x365 proactive firewall status monitoring and management. Your firewall availability is actively monitored to provide your organization with optimal network protection. Plus, ETsec meets requirements by customizing its firewall security policy to meet your organization's specific needs without sacrificing security.
Who Should Use ETmanage Firewall Services?
This service is designed for enterprises with security and elevated protection requirements, without the ability to invest additional resources in headcount, training, patch management, troubleshooting or hardware integration. It is also ideal for organizations with remote offices that wish to secure their Internet connections at a reasonable price, without having to invest their own resources, time, staff hours and training budgets.
Planning
Our team of experienced security architects reviews, outlines, diagrams, and documents your network's existing infrastructure. ETSec recognizes the necessity of designing security solutions that are customized specifically to protect your enterprise's internal and external networks; these custom recommendations are documented during the initial review. With the ETmanage Firewall Services, we work as an extension of your support staff and work to maintain your corporate level of excellence.
Implementation
ETSec operates in the corporate environment to ensure there is no detriment to production traffic or unexpected downtime. This includes performing a backup of all configurations and working through a detailed, approved plan. ETSec also works with your team to confirm that operations were successful. We have not completed our task until we can validate each task through a predefined set of acceptance criteria.
Our engineering staff understands the importance of timeframes and working within these predetermined windows. This not only includes change windows and approved green zones, but also the dates for an expected completion. Our time estimates for implementation are based on real-world scenarios derived from your company and are only set after we have a full understanding of your specific situation.
Knowledge Transfer
ETSec provides knowledge transfer to your team regarding the work completed by ETSec. This includes configuration documentation, network diagrams, rule-to-application mapping when appropriate, and contact escalation. Your ETSec security consultant will also compile a report detailing all activities performed along with suggested actions for moving forward with regards to supporting this environment.
Benefits
ETSec’s ETmanage value proposition and value drivers include:
- Reduced technology investment risk and higher ROI with lower or no upfront capital, resource commitment, and levels of complexity. Your company avoids the risk of additional 'hidden costs' that creep up over the application lifecycle such as ongoing support and maintenance costs, upgrades, updates and user acceptance risks, etc.
- Lower cash outlays for enterprise-class hardware and software purchases by replacing large, upfront cash outlays for both hardware and software licenses with a smaller subscription-based pricing model but at a fraction of the cost. Such a shift in pricing moves a great deal of enterprises' expenditures from fixed costs to variable costs, increasing the flexibility of their cost structures.
- Ease of implementation and quicker time-to-market or value with deployments generally requiring less than two to three months compared to six to 18 months with traditional software and hardware infrastructures. The focus of a deployment is on end-user training, since customers do not have to install or maintain servers, networking equipment, security products, or other hardware.
- Frees up internal resources by reducing internal IT staff required to manage applications, keep track of upgrades, maintain performance, etc.
- Full application lifecycle involvement, from initial deployment through ongoing support, maintenance and upgrade, that ensures that there is a complete alignment of interests and a vested stake in the success of the application beyond initial deployment.
- Continuous support & seamless upgrades with new features and functionality, upgrades, customer support, and other operational services all included instead of being treated as incremental costs.
- Shared risk and single-source accountability with customers demanding a different vendor relationship that results in more accountability and flexibility in the actual execution of the solution. ETSec 'shares' in the execution risk of the application.
- New functionality and improved application performance - ETSec is continually refining the product with new releases which add customer-driven functionality. Major new product releases and application improvements can literally be made overnight or during off-hours, resulting in little service disruption for end-users.