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Seven Reasons to Adopt SaaS Security 1
1. Provides Improved Manageability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2. Features Guaranteed SLAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
3. Affords Flexibility and Scalability 2
4. Provides High-Quality Security by Security Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
5. Reduces Bandwidth Requirements and Improves Network Performance 3
6. Plays a Critical Role in Defense-In-Depth Security 3
7. Enhances Cost Savings Surrounding Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
The Savvy SaaS Selector 4
About Webroot 5Why Security SaaS Makes Sense Today
Seven Reasons to Adopt SaaS Security Corporate IT teams are waging a significant security battle on two fronts these days: stopping attacks via the Web and through email. They are tirelessly trying to protect their networks against known and unknown viruses, spyware and phishing attacks. However, the more complex these threats become, the more infrastructure companies have to bring in-house, sending capital expenditures through the roof.
It's a battle that Aaron Zuccolin, manager of information systems at the Canadian law firm Watson Goepel Maledy LLP, knows all too well. He estimates that 80% to 90% of his Vancouver, B.C.-based firm's email is spam - a risky proposition when he is beholden to [Enterprise Security] data protection laws in Canada, the United States and Europe. is a fool's game to manage in-house "Trying to manage that volume day-to-day in-house would be ridiculous," he says. "Enter- because you can prise security is highly variable in terms of the threats you have to deal with, the solutions spend thousands that are out there to deal with them, and the complexity you want to endure as you scale. of dollars on hard-That makes it a fool's game to manage it in-house because you can spend thousands of ware, software and dollars on hardware, software and personnel and still not lower your risk," Zuccolin says. personnel and still not lower your risk. Instead, like many of his peers today, Zuccolin has opted for a software-as-a-service (SaaS) - Aaron Zuccolin, strategy, a software application delivery model where applications are hosted on the Internet Manager of Information Systems, Watson Goepel Maledy LLPand companies pay for usage rather than infrastructure and licensing. By offloading his email security to a provider, Zuccolin says he can focus his team on developing policies and procedures that mitigate the overall data privacy risk.
Chenxi Wang, principal analyst at Forrester Research Inc., says that SaaS offerings will become more prevalent over the next few years as services continue to mature and organizations see SaaS as viable for more than just standard business applications. "Companies are getting more comfortable with SaaS in general - it's becoming more of a norm. They're realizing the benefit of outsourcing commoditized solutions, like security, to specialists so they can stay focused on their core business," she says.
In fact, companies are seeing drawbacks to owning and managing their own security infrastructure. For instance, on-premise security software and appliances can create a [Companies] are single point of failure. They can also be hard to scale as threats increase, slow to realizing the benefit respond ... [download for more]
