Does SaaS For Security Make Any Sense For Businesses?

Kevin Studley – our President at The Network Pro – knows all too well that over 90% of all email in-bound into his company’s servers is spam.  Given that data protection laws are more than stringent in Canada, U.S., and Europe, this is as risky as it can get.

Companies all over the world battle with incoming attacks on networks and spam each day. As a result, network monitoring becomes a full-time activity (much like surveillance) and there’s no doubt that corporate IT teams are waging a constant war against attacks and losing resources in the form of expenses, team effort, all leading companies to think about better ways to manage threats to networks.

What might be the answer?

Software As a Service (SaaS) is proving to one of the more prevalent and well-accepted alternative as services tend to mature and more viable – not to mention companies benefiting from the outsourced security management.

Some of the more interesting reasons why people seek SaaS services, according to an ebriefing on SaaS, companies see plenty of drawbacks for owning and managing their own security infrastructure.

Some of the major benefits of taking to SaaS services are the following:

• Companies can partially or totally outsource the entire gamut of services such as building and managing security infrastructure, developing software and appliances, focusing on licensing, monitoring performance and much more.
• Opting for SaaS services allow a company a lot of flexibility and also plenty of scalability should the companies in question decide to scale up?
• A big advantage with Saas is that providers usually undertake to a service-level agreement (SLA) which keeps service levels high and provides a sense of assurance to buyers from providers. It also allows buyers to keep a closer tab on costs incurred for buyers since hidden costs become glaringly obvious.
• Businesses do not need to worry about scaling up or ramping up networks, reduced bandwidth requirements for companies (also bringing costs down), and finally boosts network performance.
• Costs savings are incredibly high related to security.

Could you think of any other reasons? Have you tried Saas yet?