Here are the top three benefits of moving your security to SaaS:
1: Better manageability.
In most organizations today, security revolves around building and managing either hardware and software or appliances. IT teams must spend a majority of their time focusing on licensing, updates, performance and availability for a host of security systems strewn about the enterprise. They also struggle with implementation and setup costs, as well as compatibility issues. This leaves little time for managing what's most important—the business processes that mitigate risk.
With SaaS, companies can eliminate the burden of managing infrastructure and focus on developing and enforcing streamlined policies. They can also direct responses to overall threats via a single console, rather than having to tweak configurations at distributed locations.
2: More proactive protection.
It would take a larger IT team than the majority of companies have to address the security challenges most organizations face. As an example, Forrester found that 711,912 new malware threats were reported in 2007, which translates into 1,950 new malware attacks each day. And the Web is becoming increasingly more dangerous, with many of the top search queries resulting in at least one malicious URL. To adequately combat most of these threats, IT teams need immediate and detailed knowledge of emerging attack vectors. One or two staff members devoted to security can't possibly detect and mitigate these risks quickly enough to ward off serious damage.
With SaaS, companies don't have to be security experts. Instead, they can depend on the expertise of a provider that is constantly monitoring and combating new threats to the network. Using signature, behavior and heuristic analysis in tandem with access and policy controls, a SaaS provider can quickly thwart spam, virus, spyware and phishing attacks within email as well as detect inappropriate content and malware, on Web sites that users visit. And since this protection is in the cloud, providers can eliminate the threat before it impacts the network.
3: Enhanced cost-savings.
One of the biggest issues for many organizations is determining if security SaaS adds to the bottom line. In a 2007 study, market research firm Gartner Inc. found that SaaS secure Web gateway solutions cost as much as $40 less per user than appliances. Companies realize these savings by having a subscription model with predictable costs. SaaS offers immediate savings by eliminating the need for infrastructure and the personnel to manage that infrastructure. Companies can see additional cost benefits from needing less storage and bandwidth since a lot of spam and other false content is handled off-network.
SaaS also saves money by saving resources. For instance, if a company builds its network to support 15 million inbound email messages per day and 14 million are purely junk, that's a lot of money wasted trying to deal with the volume on-premise. After moving to an in-the-cloud offering, you only need to support a million messages per day on your own network so bandwidth consumption is drastically reduced. By ridding the network of that extra burden, companies could also see a boost in performance.
Author Resource:-
Jon Harwokey, a software developer, understands the importance of protecting networks against malware threats, managing acceptable use policies, and ensuring industry and regulatory compliance. Delivered as a service, Webroot web security and web filtering reduce total cost of ownership, keep threats from ever reaching the corporate network, and require no additional hardware or software investment.
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