SaaS secures in uncertain times- Software-as-a-Service Improves Web and Email Security in Tough Time

SaaS secures in uncertain timesSoftware-as-a-Service Improves Web and Email Security in Tough TimesSaaS Secures in Uncertain Times
Contents
SaaS Improves Web and Email Security in Tough Times 1 Understanding Today's Vulnerabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Inside SaaS 2 SaaS and Security: A Natural Fit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Cutting-Edge Tools and Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
SaaS Marks the Next Step in the Journey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Getting the Most From SaaS 5
About Webroot 6SaaS Secures in Uncertain Times
SaaS Improves Web and Email Security in Tough Times The software-as-a-service model can help you stay ahead of Web and email threats without breaking the bank on infrastructure and management. There are three truisms about a tight economy that every IT manager knows: You have to support more projects with fewer people and tighter budgets; approvals for infrastructure build-outs are scarce; and it's your job to ensure employee productivity remains high. Spending is going to These may seem like Herculean tasks, especially when you're dealing with ever-increasing be affected by this threats to your Web and email networks, but IT executives and industry experts say success economic slowdown, can be found by moving to a software-as-a-service (SaaS) delivery model. "Spending is so organizations need going to be affected by this economic slowdown, so organizations need to rethink how to rethink how they manage noncore, they manage noncore, yet critical, tasks such as Web and email security," says Brian Burke, yet critical, tasks program director for security products at Framingham, Mass.-based research firm IDC. such as Web and Recently, enterprises of all sizes have turned to gateway appliances to block spam, scan for email security. viruses, and perform URL and content filtering. But performing these tasks on the network - Brian Burke, Program Director for can be costly in terms of hardware, software, bandwidth and administration. For instance, Security Products, IDCa boost in spam oftentimes results in the need for additional appliances and licenses, increased email server capacity, expanded storage space, a hike in bandwidth, and dedicated man-hours to deploy and manage these infrastructure build-outs.
These expenses are hard to fathom in today's fiscally challenged environment. "Organizations are definitely experiencing appliance fatigue. The number of boxes they have to manage is overwhelming, and the costs continue to add up," Burke says.To combat this problem and free up valuable resources, companies are starting to use Web and email security SaaS to handle threats before they hit the network. This approach not only helps to save time and money, but it actually improves protection by defeating today's highly complex and dynamic threats in the cloud, in real time.
Understanding Today's Vulnerabilities While IT budgets may be shrinking, there is definitely no shortage of attacks IT professionals face in regard to Web and email. Burke says the link between the two is becoming indistinguishable, thanks to the use of Web 2.0 technologies such as social networking, A lot of email servers Wikis and blogs in the workplace. He adds that spam is also on the rise, accounting for and appliances are more than 80% of all enterprise email, and the number one threat to email security is now faltering because embedded URL links within these messages. they can't keep up with the volume These statistics make it easy to understand how ... [download for more]