Security On-Demand provides their solution via a Cloud-based delivery model. This services delivery model is also known within the industry as “Security-as-a-Service” or “SaaS”. This approach is similar to the well known “Software-as-a-Service” delivery model which today is rapidly become the deployment platform of choice for most organizations and industries.
The business and financial advantages of this alternative approach to managing security are gaining wide acceptance, as the following research illustrates:
- Gartner predicts that SaaS market will grow at 22% (CAGR) through 2011, twice the rate of the enterprise software market
- 90% of those that adopt SaaS solutions are satisfied with the quality of the solution & plan to expand their use and adoption into their organization
- Most corporations are planning SaaS based initiatives to address existing business requirements
Measureable Business Benefits
Measurable business benefits that Security On-Demand provides via their Cloud-based, “Security-as-a-Service” solution offerings include the following:
- Eliminates Technology Learning curve – The typical organization that invests in their own tools and systems often experiences a steep learning curve during planning, implementation, configuration, tuning, and operations. This is a huge investment that is never fully recouped by the organization. By eliminating or significantly reducing the staff learning curve, the organization can focus on supporting the business operations, and thereby derive greater value from the solution.
- Speeds Time to Deployment – The amount of time spent while the technology is rolled out and integrated into the IT environment can be quite costly. By adopting the Security On-Demand Security SaaS Platform, we typically fully deploy and tune the service in less than 30 days, thus rapidly accelerating the return on investment to the client.
- Cost (Capital Expenditure) – Tying up large amounts of capital for extended periods of time, or incurring additional expense through excessive financing costs is not a profitable use of company resources where technology can become obsolete in 18 months. In addition, many organizations simply do not have budgets that support capital expenditures due to the current economic climate. Security On-Demand provides and maintains all hardware, software, licenses, vendor support, renewal fees, and subscriptions to eliminate on-going costs.
- Lowers Technology Performance Risk - There is inherent risk in purchasing products and solutions that when deployed, do not work as originally presented by the vendor. It can become expensive for an organization to switch to a different security platform or technology. Security On-Demand eliminates this risk by minimizing the investment the client is required to make by allowing the client to try and fully evaluate before buying in their production environment. In addition an “escape clause” to the agreement can be negotiated to change or discontinue the service if the solution is not meeting expectations.
- Staffing & Security Expertise – Skill sets required to support the monitoring of security events and incidents are multiple and varied. The security certifications sought by staff members are expensive, time-consuming, and challenging to maintain. In addition, as staff is trained by the client, these trained individuals often leverage the employer’s generous contributions to market themselves to an elevated and higher salaried position within another company. Security On-Demand eliminates staff turnover risk and eliminates training company costs by guaranteeing to provide and maintain the support expertise the solution requires.
- Capacity Planning Flexibility - Allows the client utilize and pay for what is needed as it’s required by the business to support growth, or to allow a decrease in coverage based on changes to the company’s strategy, or financial circumstances. Using Security On-Demand’s flexible pricing and capacity model, the client does not over purchase capacity or get stuck with legacy technology that becomes expensive to maintain or manage.
- Coverage – Only the very largest of companies can afford to staff the required security skill sets around the clock. To compensate, organizations either ignore security incidents during non-business hours, or attempt to have IT staff put on-call to triage security events as alerts are forwarded after hours. Both strategies are ineffective and constitute significant risk to the organization by providing a large window of exploit exposure during non-business hours. Security On-Demand reduces this risk through 24x7x365 coverage within their fully manned Security Operations Center (SOC).