ESSENT IAL BUSINESS TECH EXECUTIVES, PROFESSIONALS & ENTREPRENEURS Network Box USA Managed Security Solutions For Companies That Take Security Seriously A strong indicator of a compa- ny’s performance is its track record. Network Box USA’s (www.networkboxusa.com) includes accumulating 40-plus international awards with its global managed secu- rity solutions, achieving a 98% reten- tion rate among customers who add more security devices later on, and cli- ents citing nine years of bug-free net- work operation. Such accomplishments come by viewing security as what CTO Pierluigi Stella describes as “constant, continuous engagement 24/7/365.” As Stella says, “Hackers never sleep, and neither do we.” Network Box’s customers include 150 financial institutions in the United States alone. Clinics, hospitals, businesses sub- ject to PCI DSS or operating in regulated industries, or any company seeking “to take security seriously” are also candi- dates for its Managed Security Services solutions, Stella says. These solutions include 24/7/365 monitoring and pro- active management of roughly 150 dif- ferent areas, including threat analysis, bandwidth and license management, load balancing, change control, secu- rity consulting, and Internet security (firewall, IDP, VPN, anti-malware, anti- spam, and content-filtering protection). A GOBAL OPERATION FOR SERIOUS SECURITY Globally, the company oversees about 4,500 UTM (unified threat management) devices situated at customers’ Internet gateway entry points. Combined, the UTMs grant Network monitor 24/7/365 in real Box “full visibility of the time the 1,500-plus data Internet that a customer networks tied to the UTMs. would never have with his own one or two boxes,” ZAPPING VIRUSES Stella says. Attack alerts IN REAL TIME are reported in real time Another power weapon to Network Box’s central in Network Box’s arsenal Pierluigi Stella Global Monitoring System, is its real-time, cloud-based CTO, Network Box which in turn monitors the Z-Scan antivirus tech- “If you want to UTMs to ensure they’re nology, which addresses ensure security on Internet-connected and zero-day malware 4,200 a network, you can’t reachable. Customers also times faster than traditional just install a ?rewall have access to various antivirus technologies and and walk away.” alerts via email, mobile de- helps automate creating vice, and text delivery at and releasing signatures in times and locations they configure. seconds. Recently, the Tolly Group IT “If you want to ensure security on a security testing lab found the overall network, you can’t just install a firewall Network Box anti-malware solution (in- and walk away,” Stella says. “That isn’t cluding Z-Scan) to be 100% effective. how true security is done; that instal- Z-Scan is also used in Network Box’s lation is obsolete and useless within anti-spam protection, helping create an a few minutes.  Our service ensures email gateway with a 99.4% detection that we are constantly monitoring rate and nearly no false-positives. the Internet for new threats, creating “All this is like having a team of signatures in real time, and almost in- network security experts at your dis- stantaneously pushing them out to our posal 24/7/365. There is no comparing devices globally.” all this with a simple device installed On average, Network Box’s patented at the edge of a network and aban- PUSH technology pushes 300 daily up- doned to itself,” says Stella. Doing all dates—including antivirus, anti-spam, of this in-house would cost ten times and IDPS signatures; security patches; as much as Network Box, he adds. And and software updates—to customer the person driving it “would not have UTMs within 45 seconds of availability. full visibility of the Internet, would not NOCs (Network Operation Centers) lo- be able to get the range of experience cated in more than 12 countries manage and see the range of attacks we see, the UTMs, while a global network of and would not likely stay very long SOCs (Security Operation Centers) because the career opportunities would houses security-trained analysts who not be sufficient or satisfactory.” ?   Network Box USA | (888) 315-8886 | www.networkboxusa.com PC Today / December 2011 25