dns, a UK based key player in the managed security services industry has announced that as a result of its rapid growth, the company now holds contracts to manage more than 1,250 devices around the world.
With Gartner suggesting that a MSSP managing around 200 devices is sizeable*, the fact that dns now manages more than 1,250 devices really puts its growth into context. Founded in 1999 and based in Edinburgh, the company began by securing a base of UK customers before embarking on a period of significant growth. The company now manages devices across five continents (Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe and North America) and continues to grow at a rapid pace.
Despite this growth, dns has ensured that its customer service has remained consistently high and as a result has achieved a remarkable record of never losing a customer. With more than 60 MSS clients from a range of sectors and variety of sizes, this is a remarkable testament to dns’ quality of service especially when one considers the increasing numbers and complexity of threats the team has to deal with 24/7.
Graeme Cox, managing director and co-founder at dns commented. “Delivering quality security management and security event monitoring is an expensive and time-consuming requirement for any IT department, and doubly so for organisations with downwards pressures on IT budgets and headcounts – something that is going to be a concern during potentially turbulent economic periods such as this. Meanwhile an ever-increasing dependence on electronic data and communications, plus the tightening of compliance such as PCI, demand a more robust and diligent approach to Information Security. Managed security offers the best security skills and knowledge into our clients’ IT teams, and delivers it 24/7.
Cox continued. “For medium-sized organisations the significant increase in security capability that managed security brings is generally delivered into clients for less than the cost of a single FTE, and frequently releases an FTE back into the internal IT organisation. This virtualisation of the IT security team to include external experts for specialist tasks offers a route to increase the ability to execute within our clients without an increase in headcount and with clear ROI.”
“To hit a milestone of managing 1,250 devices is really a big endorsement of the team’s hardwork and dedication. We think that dns is one of the real ‘good news’ stories for the British technology sector.”
*Gartner MarketScope for Managed Security Services in Europe 2007
