How MSPs Can Capitalize in a World of IT Security Threats

By McAfee Guest Blog 2

Cyber security threats continue to grow, and are now becoming part of popular culture. Many non-IT pros have followed the headlines about recent computer vulnerabilities such as CryptoLocker or Heartbleed.

The increased awareness of vulnerabilities comes at the same time that many IT organizations don’t have the in-house skills to protect against today’s threats. This makes it a great time for managed service providers (MSPs) to capitalize on the transformational shift in IT security awareness.

MSPs must carefully evaluate the security tools they choose to implement for their customers. MSP business models require deployment and cost flexibility. Managing multiple organizations requires multi-tenancy capabilities. And today’s threats and vulnerabilities require advanced security. McAfee’s Next Generation Firewall offers the advanced security, flexibility, and multitenant control needed to protect businesses while growing yours.

McAfee’s Next Generation Firewall offers:

Advanced security

A recent McAfee report, “The Security Industry’s Dirty Little Secret,” revealed confusion surrounding advanced evasion techniques (AETs). This is when attackers split up malicious payloads into smaller pieces, disguise them and send them across multiple protocols. According to the study, more than 40 percent of IT decision-makers do not believe they have the necessary methods to detect and track AETS within their organization.

McAfee tests its Next Generation Firewall against more than 800 million AETS. The company’s intrusion prevention system (IPS) capabilities offer unique and thorough protection against the most determined attacks across all protocols and network layers. It’s a single system designed to serve multiple roles — next-generation firewall, Layer 2 firewall, firewall/VPN, IPS, remote access gateway, and application control.

Flexibility

McAfee Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) provides MSPs with choices of services and scale. This offers them the ability to combine services, set configurations and corresponding costs. The NGFW’s adaptive architecture allows MSPs to deploy the product through a hosting service or on premises. Native, active clustering and McAfee Multi-Link features support the availability and throughput needed for high-traffic environments and processing-intensive applications. In addition, McAfee’s Next Generation Firewall use a single, powerful, and highly scalable management console for expanded visibility you’re your entire network.

Multi-tenancy

McAfee’s NGFW  allow MSPs to manage separate domains across customers, define role-based access and policies, run in-depth account and reporting, and perform remote automated control over a unified, software-based design. This can be done through the console, Web browser, or an MSP’s security operations center (SOC) or network operations center (NOC) applications using application programming interfaces (APIs). The McAfee Security Management Center enables MSPs to customize the level of access and control customers require.

Advanced security, flexibility and multi-tenant control are musts for MSPs looking to offer the best IT security protection to customers. Only McAfee puts that together in one package.

Looking for more? Check out a recent NGFW blog here at MSPmentor and check back in the months ahead for more details about some of the new offerings in McAfee’s Security Connected solutions portfolio for MSPs. And visit our website at www.McAfee.com/MSP or send email to [email protected] for more information. Read more about McAfee Managed Services at https://blogs.mcafee.com/category/business/mcafee-channel.

Richard Bowman is the Senior Director of Managed Services and SaaS at McAfee. Monthly guest blogs such as this one are part of MSPmentor’s annual platinum sponsorship