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Service Provider Solutions for SMBs.
Service Provider Solutions for Small to Medium-Sized Businesses (SMB)
The past few years have seen great change in the Small to Medium-sized Business market place. Emerging from the difficult financial circumstances which resulted from the dotcom bubble bursting, many SMBs are still struggling to cut costs, increase profitability and grow revenue. One way they are looking to do this is by minimizing capital expenditure and reducing operational expenditure on any IT networking and infrastructure costs. This is occurring against a backdrop where the complexity and frequency of security threats is continuously increasing, and where businesses are struggling to manage their existing security resources to ensure that sufficient security expertise exists to protect their business applications/ processes, their networks and their data.
Also affected by the dotcom recession, many service providers continue to face reduced revenues from traditional services (e.g. voice and data) as a result of market de-regulation and enhanced competition from new operators. Consequently, they are keen to find new markets to enter.
As a result of the combination of both of these market dynamics, the SMB market place is now hungry for networking and IT services which
- Service Providers are uniquely placed and eager to provide
- can now be obtained on a monthly subscription basis or outsourced in an annual contract to the local service provider from the SMB,
- and where the SMB benefits from technologically up-to-date solutions, obtained with zero capital expenditure and reduced operating expenditures.
McAfee has developed a suite of security software and appliances from which Service Providers can build security solutions, tailored to the needs of their SMB customers. Based upon McAfee’s proven security expertise, solutions can be built that will protect the data being created and stored within the network, protect data being transmitted across the network, will provide protection to the network and its users whilst connecting to the internet, and can provide guidance to SMBs on their current risk exposure, along with help on how to minimize their security risks.
The Service Provider Security Protection Suite for SMBs also includes McAfee’s market leading “Total Protection for SMBs”, a fully automated security service for businesses that provides integrated Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, Personal Fire-Wall with detailed security reporting. Total Protection provides a comprehensive, fully automated, always on, always up-to-date, single solution created especially for SMBs that may be sold by Service Providers but hosted by McAfee.
For more information, please select from the following:
The Perfect Value-Added-Service for Service Providers to offer SMBs Automatic protection for desktops and fileservers against viruses, spyware, spam and hackers.
Detects malware and DoS/ DDoS attacks, unauthorised network access and enables Service Providers to proactively prevent and block attacks in real-time, securing an SMBs network assets, business operations and private data.
Enables SMBs to understand the level of security threat their business network is exposed to, by creating an inventory of their network assets and applications and cross-matching them against all known vulnerabilities. Service Providers may then work with the SMB to take proactive steps to reduce the risk exposure to proactively prevent successful network attacks before they occur.
Hosted by McAfee, but sold by the Service Provider, this is an in-the-cloud, fully automated email protection service that detects and cleans malware and spam from business email before it reaches the company network.
