Unrestricted web access can threaten your network, hamper productivity and put you at risk of legal liability. An organisation’s Internet users face an array of good, bad, inappropriate and even dangerous web content. Users can unintentionally or intentionally violate acceptable use policy, waste bandwidth, or download all manner of spyware and malware. The potential for costly legal liabilities, help desk tickets, and security breaches is considerable.
Managed Content Security
The dnsMSS Managed Content Security service, leveraging industry leading technology vendors, provides a leading web content security solution allowing you to enforce your corporate internet usage policy. Importantly this solution minimises any internal overhead of administering or updating the system.
The 24/7 managed service covers all operational requirements to provide a web content security service: the maintenance of black-lists, white-lists, user group profiles, patching, url database updates and the change management of user group profiles and the reporting and investigation of any breaches of policy.
The service provides a sophisticated environment in which to control access to Internet content that is deemed inappropriate from a business perspective. The control can be as granular as for an individual user, or more likely, for groups of users.
To maintain vigilance over what is happening with Internet web access requires on-going monitoring. Through this monitoring, reports are produced that show when rules are being broken and which individuals are not observing the standard of use policy. In extreme cases immediate action will be taken by dns to report the breach to designated customer representatives whilst the majority of cases will be reported in a timely but not immediate basis.
Through constant monitoring and reporting, a great deal will be learned about how the Internet is being used including busy periods, types of sites visited, business use and personal use. From the information gathered, the solution can be tuned to improve the use of available bandwidth for the business requirements, whilst enabling tighter control over personal access should this be desired.
Why choose a managed service?
Both organisations with and without current web content security can benefit from the Managed Content Security service. Those organisations without the infrastructure already in place benefit from an expert solution that is rapidly deployed, expertly implemented, cost effective and fully managed without taking up valuable internal resources.
Organisations with a solution already in place will already appreciate the hidden costs of administration and management; both of which are passed onto the dnsMSS team as part of the managed service.
Benefits
• ensure compliance with corporate internet usage policy maximising security and productivity
• granular control over who can access which site, when and for how long - across the company or at the individual level
• block URLs with spyware or malicious code while freeing up bandwidth for work-related tasks
• 24/7 monitoring by the dnsMSS team ensures maximum performance with minimal internal effort
• easy to access reports on Internet activity, application use and risks associated with employee computing
If you would like more information on this service and how your organisation can benefit from it, please email info@dns.co.uk or phone 0870 085 8555 to speak to one of our advisers.
