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Our hallmark monitoring & reporting service, Availability &
Performance Monitoring (APM) provide our customers with
the foundation to measure and manage their IT infrastructure. This is a
tried and proven solution, and together with the many years of
experience we have accrued, allows us to offer remarkable depth at an
affordable price. Our security monitoring solution consists of the following two services:
Security Event Monitoring (SEM) is our premium service that gives you
near real-time monitoring of all security events generated by your
equipment. SEM can also generate email alerts for predefined conditions.
Security Information Management (SIM) provides
both standard and fast, ad-hoc reports to provide a strategic management perspective. By empowering you to create and view a wide
variety of security reports, you can uncover what is really going
through your network.
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Why use Independent 3rd-Party Monitoring?
Most organizations have few or no compensating controls for senior
IT security staff. Unless an expensive 3rd party audit is
undertaken, there is no independent confirmation that IT security is
being legitimately managed. Furthermore, any clandestine activity
will be unlikely to be detected until a gross error is made or the
employee has left.
External, third-party monitoring makes it very, very difficult for
events to be concealed. While it is possible to ‘break’ the stream
of event logging by disabling the logging process itself, the ‘gap’
in the record would be suspicious.
Security monitoring should be handled by someone other than IT
staff, for the same reasons that auditors should remain separate from
accountants and bookkeepers.
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