Choosing A Managed Security Provider?

Gothmolly asks: "There are a growing number of Managed Security Providers (MSP) out there. Basically, these guys drop a firewall in your company, then manage it remotely. Defendnet also offers VPN and (I hear) in-line Anti-Virus solutions. Places like MyCIO and ISS basically do the same thing. How does one evaluate the capabilities of a Managed Security Provider?"

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[Raven667]

SecurePipe Communications does this kind of thing. We provide a managed firewall service, just drop in our box. The firewall is maintained remotely from our NOC either over the network or via a POTS dialup. We also provide VPN's between firewalls and VPN's between roaming clients and internal networks, our latest software version also supports IPSec.

As to non-firewall solutions, we offer virtual mail and web hosting as well as managed mail servers with virus scanning. We can also host your DNS zones for you. many of our customers are small businesses, often without any full-time IT staff, which is why we offer such a complete set of non-firewall services.

Best of all we are an all Linux shop, from the Product to our Desktops. Several people in our staff have even contributed to open source projects. We also use OSS for all our core business software and will continue to do so for the forseeable future. Our shop is committed to the spirit of the GPL and will continue to do what we can to better the community.

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Mark Tinberg
Network Security Engineer
SecurePipe Communications