How To Select The Best Network Monitoring Technology

Experts agree that monitoring is essential for maintaining overall network performance, health, and security. But exactly which features should a network monitoring tool offer, and how should the technology be used to achieve maximum effectiveness? As both networks and network management goals advance and evolve, these questions are becoming increasingly difficult to answer, making it challenging to locate and deploy a monitoring technology that covers all of the essential bases.  Read this article for insights and practical advice: How To Select The Best Network Monitoring Technology

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Managed Services

The Cybersecurity Landscape

Who is IGI?

IGI is headquartered in Rochester, NY with a workforce spanning across the United States. They work with organizations on all levels of IT security. Through the company’s evolution from 1986 to today, they have continued to build on their strong foundation of securing information, systems, and technologies to become a leader in the cybersecurity field. By 2021 cybercrime damages are expected to hit about $6 trillion annually. Last year alone, 39 percent of all reported cybercrime was ransomware attacks. IGI is here to solve, simplify, and secure.

• Solve – Cybersecurity is a growing problem for every organization in the world, and IGI is tackling that problem head-on with our comprehensive solutions and services.
• Simplify – Cybersecurity can be complicated, and the market is noisy, but by productizing our services IGI has made cybersecurity easier to understand and sell.
• Secure – While it’s nearly impossible to fully protect yourself in the current climate, IGI can take actions that help manage and control your risk.

IGI is the creator of cutting-edge vulnerability management platform, Nodeware but more importantly, they are your security overlay and partner to your IT organization. Their company is made up of professionals from many different industries who hold credentials such as CISSP, GCIH, MCSE, MCSA, CompTIA, CIW and more.

IGI’s Offerings

Vulnerability Management is a critical component to securing a network that is often overlooked. Nodeware works around the clock to continuously identify vulnerabilities on your network, prioritize critical threats, and provide the steps to remediate them to keep your network safe. It also works in concert with defensive solutions such as firewalls and antivirus. Vulnerability Management is an essential layer of security that fills a critical gap for organizations while enhancing the function of other security solutions.

IGI also has other offerings:

• Incident Response
• Vulnerability Assessments
• Penetration Testing
  • Social Engineering
  • Physical Security Testing
  • External & Internal Network Testing
• Compliance Readiness Assessments
• Security Assessments
  • Proactive Compromise Assessments
• Virtual CISO
  • Security Awareness Training
• Managed Security
  • SIEM/SOC as a Service

OTHER Benefits

Cybersecurity can be complicated, but it is very easy to engage IGI:

• Free external assessments for customers
• Free 2-week trials for customers

To learn more about IGI …. and other options from cutting edge network performance management and security providers …. simply ask here:  Network Security Solutions.  It's as easy as 1, 2, 3.

Firewalls And Managed Endpoints Explained

Security – How and Why TPx Cares

TPx is the nation’s premier Managed Services Provider, delivering unified communications, managed IT and network connectivity to 55,000 customer locations across the country. They’ve continued to evolve as technologies and marketplaces began to change. TPx began to make a pivotal shift about two years ago to become a managed service organization. They have three main lines of business, these include their unified communications, SD-WAN and their Security offerings.

Two years ago TPx made a change by creating their own security operation center in St. Louis, Missouri. TPx has found that there are many features and functions in items like firewalls that people don’t activate. Technologies like web content filtering and antivirus have been built out in the next-generation firewalls but they’re often not configured properly or enabled. This means you have a product which is set to do a lot of wonderful things but sadly they are not working properly. TPx works on making sure they properly implement all of the features these devices have to offer, they also provide ongoing maintenance as part of their process. Within security there are a lot of advantages when it comes to utilizing the firewall to make sure you have control in your environment, application control means you can limit the amount of bandwidth being used. The important thing to keep in mind is that you can always buy a firewall and put in place but if it’s not properly configured, monitored, and managed then you’re not getting all of the value out of it.

What About Firewalls?

Firewall is the first line of defense in protecting your business from Internet-based threats. However, not all firewalls are created equal. For today’s ever-changing threat landscape, you need the right next gen firewall that is properly configured and installed. TPx protects your business like their own with the best-in-class firewall and manage it for a price you can afford, so you can free up resources and concentrate on making your business thrive. When talking to a customer today about the firewall they have there are a few questions you should start by asking:

• How old is it?
• When did you get it installed?
• Who installed it?
• Have they been monitoring and managing it?

There are a lot of manufactures out there, TPx does a lot of their work with the FortiGate family. So, what can TPx do?

• Design a customized firewall solution for the customer
• Configure and deploy Next Gen Firewall
• Protect Systems and Data with 24/7 device and threat monitoring
• Regular device and policy udating
• Remove the management and monitoring burden from the customer

Managed Endpoints

For most Small and Medium Businesses, effectively managing their server and user endpoint environments is a challenge. It requires sophisticated tools, the right skills, a dedicated focus, and an efficient response. Limited budgets, staff availability or expertise, as well as inefficient processes and ineffective support technologies can all lead to unreliable or unsecured systems. This seriously impacts user productivity. Endpoints include desktops, laptops, tablets and servers and TPx understands that these items are not always going to be at the physical office. Their system is designed out so they can support the units no matter where they are. The important thing is to understand and be able to provide a report.

Introducing TPx Endpoint/Network Security Bundle

It’s time to start taking Endpoint and Network security seriously. Today’s security threats are too sophisticated, aggressive, and prevalent to rely on outdated technologies or inconsistent processes to protect your business. Ransomware, file-less attacks, and organize IT cybercriminals are targeting SMBs because they know that SMBs often lack the resources and budget to implement best practice security measures.

TPx is here to help, they’ve bundled two of their most popular IT management and security solutions to make it easy. Their MSx Managed Firewall service together with MSx Managed Endpoints service will protect two of the most vulnerable parts of your IT infrastructure. Through 27×7 monitoring and alerting, professional management and support, and best-in-class technologies, TPx delivers the core security and management services that every business needs.

To take advantage of what TPx has to offer …. as well as learn more about what other network security strategy options you may have ….simply ask here: Network Management And Security Solutions.  It's as easy as 1, 2, 3.

Monitoring Your Network Is Critical To Secure Optimized Performance And Network Management

If you don't know what your voice/data network is doing...

* How do you know if your network is performing as it is supposed to?
* How do you know if you are getting what you payed for?
* How do you know if there may be issues you need to have addressed...like NOW?
* If there are issues....how do you know what they are?
* How do you know if you are paying more than you planned for because of problems you aren't aware of?

The answer is .... you don't know.

But you should know! Not knowing can have a major negative affect on your network AND your business.

We can help with that.

We offer FREE independent circuit monitoring with EVERY circuit sourced through us. That sets us apart from every other broker....and most providers if you try to source from them directly.

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