Contact Information: Contact: Joe Franscella Trainer Communications 925-271-8213
Managed Services Providers Use Secure Passage's FireMon to Add Managed Firewall Service Offerings and Improve Existing Firewall Management Services
FishNet Security's MSSP Division Relies on FireMon to Ensure Continuous Compliance, Security and Optimization for Thousands of Their Customers' Firewalls
| Source: Secure Passage
OVERLAND PARK, KS--(Marketwire - December 9, 2009) - Secure
Passage today announced that its flagship solution, FireMon, is rapidly becoming the technology
of choice for managed services providers (MSPs) that want to add managed firewall services to their
offerings and improve their existing firewall management services. MSPs
choose FireMon because it enables them
to fulfill customer demand for complete visibility into the security and
compliance posture of their many firewalls, provides an easier way to
ensure compliance with the Payment Card
Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), and offers policy
optimization that improves firewall security and performance.
MSPs are rapidly adding managed security services to their offerings to
capitalize on growing demand. At the June 2009 Gartner Information Security
Summit in a presentation entitled, "Security Market Shares and Forecasts
for Providers, 2009," analysts Adam Hils and Greg Young pointed out that by
2011 the worldwide market for security services could climb above $25
billion. In the presentation, Hils and Young pointed out that compliance
with government regulations is among the factors driving this market's
growth.
With FireMon, MSPs can offer managed
firewall services that provide:
-- Continuous Compliance: FireMon's automated PCI DSS assessments, customized audits, and
rule history documentation reports can be used to evaluate a firewall's
compliance status at any given time.
-- Reduced Costs: FireMon's automated workflow documentation and reports
reduce the number of resources required to perform firewall audits.
-- Scalability: FireMon's architecture enables firewall security and
compliance to scale alongside enterprises as they grow and change to meet
evolving business challenges and opportunities.
-- Customer Visibility: FireMon's on-demand audit reports provide
comprehensive visibility and snapshots into firewall management activities,
operations, and compliance postures.
-- Optimization: FireMon's detailed traffic analysis reports enable
identification and deletion of obsolete and redundant rules, which improves
firewall performance and efficiency.
-- Seamless Integration: FireMon's API and pre-built portal applets enable
its management portal to integrate into an existing management services
portal.
"When we added a managed firewall offering to our managed security services
practice, we knew we would need to provide a combination of experienced
security and compliance consultants and the industry's leading firewall
policy management product to meet our customers' security and compliance
demands," said Tom Schmatz, FishNet Security's vice president of managed
security services. "By combining the strength of FireMon with our
experienced security team, we've been able to successfully expand our MSS
practice by providing a superior service offering that helps us outpace the
competition. We are confident that with FireMon, we will fulfill our
managed firewall services' sales and growth goals for years to come."
"Enterprises need to find ways to do more with less, but they can't risk
lowering their security and compliance postures to do so. By turning to
MSPs for managed firewall services, they
can reduce security and compliance costs without lowering their guard,"
said Jody Brazil, Secure Passage
president and CTO. "MSPs are choosing FireMon to enable their managed
firewall services more than any other competing technology. FireMon is the
only policy management and analysis solution available that responds to
their customers' demands, provides scalability, deployment flexibility, and
a role- and device-based permission model that provides the easy, granular
access control that unique MSP environments require."
For more information on how MSPs are using FireMon to provide managed firewall
services, visit www.securepassage.com/MSP-firewalls.
About Secure Passage
Secure Passage is the leading provider
of firewall policy, risk, and compliance management solutions that simplify
and automate the analysis of configuration and change management processes
to enhance security, optimize performance, and speed compliance reporting.
The company's flagship product, FireMon, analyzes changes and performs
audits in real time, simplifies policy management and enforces
configuration governance across firewalls, switches, routers, and other
network devices. FireMon is the only solution on the market that can be
customized to meet the unique audit and compliance reporting requirements
for networks of all sizes while enabling IT organizations to do more with
less effort. Enterprise-strength deployments of FireMon around the world
support more than 25,000 security devices from vendors such as Cisco,
Juniper, Check Point, and McAfee. For more information, visit
www.securepassage.com.
FireMon and the FireMon logo are registered trademarks of Secure Passage,
LLC. All other products or company names mentioned herein are trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective owners.