|
Taking the Services-on-Demand Plung
Symantec's promised network "will be delivered via a software-as-a-service paradigm over the Web by browser, administered over the Web and managed over the Web," says Chris Schin, director of product management at Symantec.
Symantec's recent acquisition binge included Brightmail, a leading antispam service, which bolsters its services expertise.
It is becoming clear--whether the market lead goes to one of the young upstarts or to a more traditional incumbent--that more customers would like to stop threats before they enter their domain.
Alert Logic's Smith likes the answering machine analogy. "How many people now use an answering machine versus a phone company service? That's a great example of moving key infrastructure off-site to a provider...
To continue reading for free, register below or login
To read more you must become a member of SearchSecurity.com
. [Those services] can do things that a machine could never do, like put your messages on a Web server," he notes.
There is evidence that more companies of all sizes are seeing the logic there and are at least kicking the tires of the security service model.
In a July report, Credit Suisse said the security-on-demand model is starting to find favor in both SMBs and enterprise accounts. "We expect this trend to accelerate in the coming years as customers are now beginning to favor the higher cost savings from on-demand solutions," Credit Suisse research analysts Phillip Winslow and Dennis Simson wrote.
Barbara Darrow is a Boston-area freelance writer.
Send comments on this article to feedback@infosecuritymag.com.
|
 |
|
