Revenue-generating security services in the cloud
In order to save time and costs, increasing numbers of companies across the world are turning to service providers to deliver and manage a wide range of core business applications in the cloud. With the issue of data security and business compliance also becoming a major factor, many more businesses have seen the advantages of the same approach for their threat control requirements.
Until now, however, limitations in the underlying architecture and performance of security platforms, whether chassis or appliance-based, have stalled the move to delivering security-as-a-service.
The stumbling blocks are major and have fundamentally impaired the economic model for cost-effective delivery of cloud-based security services:
a) lack of multi-tenancy features or support with vendors’ extremely limited
virtualization schemes, if any, offering only limited scalability and huge
compromises in performance
b) high and non-deterministic latency undermining realistic support for high
transaction volumes or real-time applications
c) lack of underlying performance to enable deployment at the cost-optimal
points in service provider networks (10 Gb/s)
d) a high cost per customer model that limits take-up of services and
reduces margins.
The Syphan ITC220 security appliance removes all these barriers and opens up the way for service providers of all sizes to enter into the lucrative security-as-a-service market.
The first high-performance, multi-tenancy security appliance Syphan’s ITC2- Integrated Threat Control in the Cloud - technology enables massive consolidation of high-cost resources, generating tangible RoI benefits in terms of multiple, per-customer recurring revenue streams as well as operational savings.
Security as a service - SaaS
The ITC 220 enables service providers to create up to 500 virtual security domains to deliver services for multiple organisations that have based their IT infrastructure on multi-gigabyte Internet connectivity. By consolidating point security solutions into a single box ISPs and MSSPs are able to maximise their rack space and generate savings on power and management overhead. For users the availability of a fixed cost professional service without capital outlay is a major attraction.
- Multi-tenant environment enables delivery of scalable, per-customer services
- 10 Gb throughput provides protection for major aggregation points
- Web based dashboard ensures user retains control over security policy
- High annual recurring revenue streams.
