There are lots of services you can buy the consumer has no idea what to do. Witteveen says most consumers are interested primarily in antivirus solutions. The service providers are playing more of a role in delivering security to business users and consumers. Very often they are calling them when they have something wrong with their PC. Their Internet provider, whoever that may be a broadband provider or cable company or telco they look to them for a lot of their services. The consumer, as well as the SMB, doesnt have the expertise to keep up with todays security needs, says Witteveen. Deutsche Telekom AG is offering both services, he says. Last fall, the company ventured into the enterprise market. The companys consumer security solutions have been delivered as a service for five years.
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The customer is downloading a Charter PC security solution, however the whole backend management of updating the product, making sure the policies are in place and the infrastructure is in place is all done by FSecure, explains Witteveen.
Charter Communications markets our service either as a value-added product or a bundle for their high-speed Internet. Thats where F-Secures products and services come into play.Īmong its partners is Charter Communications Inc. Once they have done that, they want to go further into the network of the business or home. The firewall is the first step where they touch the water with their toes, says F-Secure Vice President Travis Witteveen. More Vulnerabilities mean More Security Measuresį-Secure doesnt offer managed firewall services a fairly crowded space.
Five years ago, the company established FSecure Online Solutions to deliver its managed security portfolio through telcos and ISPs. One managed security services provider targeting ISPs and telcos is F-Secure Corp. published last year.įurthermore, private-labeled managed network security services available from specialized providers now offer telcos and other resellers like ISPs and even VARs an easier path to protecting customer networks and their own profit margins, which have been squeezed with the commoditization of telephony and bandwidth services. The carrier-based managed security services market is expected to grow to $570 million by 2008, according to projections Yankee Group Research Inc. But, say analysts and vendors, there is a larger opportunity for telcos in offering managed firewalls, intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, vulnerability scanning, antivirus, DoS protection, content filtering and antispam services. The continuing challenge businesses face in network security risk management has been identified as an opportunity for carriers its one they have addressed in the last four or five years with IP VPNs primarily.