As an outsource security partner BAI provides managed security, managed firewall, managed ids, content filtering, internet security, network security, penetration testing, and vulnerability testing.

Managed Security is commonly referred to as the management and monitoring of vital security protection systems within the corporate network.  Managed Security services are performed on a 24 x 7 basis by an outside firm who specializes in information security.  The most common systems to be included are the corporate firewall, Intrusion Detection System (IDS), Perimeter Anti-Virus services, and Content filters for email and/or web browsing.  In order to have an effective security program, it is essential that data from these key protection systems be evaluated and acted upon in order to prevent security disasters.  Managed Security is the answer to significantly reducing security risks in a cost-effective manner.

Securing a corporate network can be quite complicated and time-consuming.  It often involves the integration of vital production systems and sophisticated monitoring tools that poll and collect extensive amounts of data regarding normal and abnormal network traffic.  Reviewing the data collected and properly acting upon the results requires a mix of highly skilled security engineers coupled with properly tuned automated monitoring systems.  Many in-house IT managed solutions become either overburdened with the voluminous amount of false positive alerts or are lulled into a false sense of security by product features that are installed incorrectly or are installed in a passive mode.  It is this false sense of security that leads many companies to be at greater risk because the features are misunderstood or left only to causal review.    

It takes extensive training coupled with installation experience to determine the proper way to install and fine tune these tools to improve the overall security of a corporate network.   It is only by careful planning, installation, and monitoring that a security professional can reduce the risk of attack and exposure of corporate data to unknown sources.      

The choice to outsource security is difficult because it is perceived as a critical function for internal IT resources.  However, corporations outsource physical security to third party firms, as well as outsource critical data sources to third party processors on a frequent basis without incident.  The value in an outsourced solution is that it can often improve the level of service, while typically at a lower more cost-effective expense.  Careful oversight and management techniques can help to ensure a Managed Security solution partner is performing its responsibilities in the management and monitoring of security events. 

Corporations large and small have begun to understand the value of Managed Security solutions that handle all the labor intensive responsibilities of management, monitoring, administration, and support while doing so at a fixed monthly cost.  But the true value of the service is the increased level of protection around the company’s critical business assets by a team of highly trained security experts.

It is hard to challenge the idea of getting enterprise-class security protection while reducing the burden on internal resources all for less than the annual cost of a typical network administrator.