Monday, July 14, 2008

BRING THREADS OF SECURITY TOGETHER

When computers are connected to the Internet, there will always be somebody who would be interested to lay his hands on precious resources such as data, network or even control of the machines. In the real world, machines don't fight back. Naturally, security compromises occur.

As an entrepreneur or technology head, when you sit down with your technical team to pinpoint how the intruder got in, it could be that one of your employees unintentionally `left one door' open just enough just enough open for someone to swoop in. The problem occurs when there are many doors and hence each doorkeeper has to be alert. This is where convergence to a single solution comes handy. "

A unified threat management (UTM) is the single answer to all these and many more such worries," says Sunil Sapra, Country Manager (India & SAARC) of Watchguard Technologies, New Delhi.

The 12-year old company is in the business of providing gateway security solutions to about 5,000 customers in India.

"Though the security awareness in India has caught up fast, we do not say that we are into Internet security business; we rather say Internet security is our business," remarked Sapra while interacting with eWorld Business Line eWorld recently.

Among Watchguard's prominent customers are names such as McDonald's, PVR Cinemas, IIM Bangalore, Fullerton India, NIIT and Shriram Group.

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