Designing and implementing a corporate security architecture that includes proactive intrusion detection architecture is the first step in ensuring the security of an organization's critical assets. While many organizations deploy firewalls as central gatekeepers to prevent unauthorized access, a firewall by itself is insufficient for complete protection of networks and servers. A layered defense provides the best result.

By intelligently placing intrusion detection sensors on a network, VeriSign's team of security experts can manage a customer's devices around-the-clock, monitoring for security violations or misuse that originates from inside or outside the network. VeriSign's Managed Intrusion Detection Service (IDS) enhances an organization's firewall protection. To prevent costly downtime and potential loss of revenue, IDS provides a comprehensive, real-time warning system that proactively identifies and isolates real security attacks.

Features and Benefits

The Managed trusion Detection Services includes the following:

		Risk Management – VeriSign's expert security engineers proactively notify customers of suspicious and malicious events on a 24x7 basis.
		Full Intrusion Detection Capabilities Realized – VeriSign reduces the “noise” associated with false positives through fine-tuning procedures that maximize the company's ability to proactively respond to real security events.
		Reduced Up-Front Costs – Managed IDS customers benefit from VeriSign's on-going investment in leading monitoring and analysis tools. This relieves customers of the financial burden associated with the internal purchase of a similar monitoring infrastructure.
		Due Diligence – VeriSign's comprehensive Managed IDS addresses the requirement for due care and diligence mandated by industry and government regulations. Compliance aids an organization both in protecting critical assets as well as in assuring corporate stakeholders that the appropriate security and privacy measures have been taken to safeguard business transactions.
		Reliable Communication and Management Channel – VeriSign's proprietary Security Defense Appliance TM (SDA) provides a secure, fault-tolerant communication and management channel. This channel enables VeriSign to remotely monitor its customers' firewalls, install system and software updates and deploy innovative security technologies. The SDA, located behind a customer's firewall, provides secure, event store-and-forward capabilities via an encrypted connection to the Security Operations Center. Deployment of the SDA is not required, but highly recommended.
		Minimizes False Alarms – VeriSign's security experts leverage industry best practices and proprietary methodologies to identify real security events before systems are compromised, thereby minimizing time-consuming false positives.
		Unmatched Security Intelligence – VeriSign has unique visibility into Internet security threats, by managing critical Internet infrastructure services such as DNS.
		Guaranteed Responsiveness – VeriSign commences a client-specific escalation procedure the moment a problem is detected and then works quickly to identify its source.
		Always-On Client Resource Portal – VeriSign's Internet portal provides a detailed view of an organization's security devices under management. It includes a variety of reports per device type, and access to an ad hoc query engine for sophisticated analysis of security events across multiple platforms and locations. Access to the system is secured with token-based authentication and SSL encryption.
		24x7 Management, Monitoring and Support – VeriSign's expert staff of security analysts are available to customers around-the-clock.
		Trained and Dedicated Professionals – VeriSign has an extensive team of certified security professionals who are specially trained to manage the intrusion detection systems of leading industry vendors.
		Lower Total Cost of Ownership – VeriSign's Managed IDS saves organizations time and money by reducing internal staffing, training, and maintenance costs.

Supported Platforms

		Cisco
		Enterasys
		ISS
		Snort
		SourceFire

Other services which are part of the Managed Security Services are: