Managed Security Monitoring Services vs In House Monitoring

Tue Feb 25 15:31:26 PST 2003

Hey all.  I'd like to recommend an inquiry to Protectix.com, which is a
security consulting and appliance company based mostly on open source software
and falling back to whichever tools are best for the given job.  They produce
their own open-source-based firewall and VPN appliances.  They do IPsec VPNs on
openbsd which are able to peer with a lot of proprietary and weird VPN setups
if needed.  So they know the range of what's out there in the wild.  They can
do ongoing monitoring, remote management, on-call 24x7, etc.  And they're the
nicest guys ever.  Call Kevin at 408-557-6995.

--- Jeff with The Big Yellow Suit <jeff at drinktomi.com> wrote:
> I'm working in an environment in which security is ..um..deficient,
> and I'm going to be tasked with putting together a plan to
> tighten things down, and I'm considering between outsourcing
> the job of intrusion detection versus doing it in house.
> 
> The primary limitation in doing this is likeley to be brain
> cycles.  Quite simply the staff is stretched far too thinly,
> they are not historically very good at the daily care
> and feeding of complex beasties.  I envision any sort of
> inhouse system going in with a bang and then languishing
> for lack of updates and passion.  I've seen it happen too
> many times.
> 
> For those reasons I'm leaning heavily towards outsourcing.
> The obvious candidate is Counterpane, but I'd like to get
> people's feelings about this, and I'd also like to scare up
> a list of services doing similar things.  Any help and or
> horror stories would be appreciated.
> 
> -jeff
> 
> 
> 

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