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229daysmedian time hackers operate inside systems before being discovered1

“… many in IT fail to consider the deeper challenges of building a reliable network and only unearth network problems after a migration has been completed.” 7 – Greg Ferro, TechTarget

Managed services become critical tools for businesses

Per Gartner, by 2018 more than half of organizations will use managed security services firms to enhance their security postures.5

think the cloud is a key to their innovation strategy.6

53% expect the cloud to be part of the long-range vision for their business in two years.6

71%

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Hackers are getting better at covering their tracks

Data breaches are becoming ever bigger and more common.

over 800million records were lost last year.1

The internet-of-things presents new security challenges:

“If my PC is hit… it is a nuisance; if my car is attacked, it could kill me.”1

68% of organizations believe exploiting enterprise technology securely provides the basis for fostering innovation.2

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1 A special report on cyber-security-Defending the digital frontier,” The Economist, July 12, 20142 Security in the Age of Enterprise Technology, Irwin Lazar, Nemertes Research3 Gartner, Inc., Forecast Overview: Information Security, Worldwide, 2014 Update, Ruggero Contu, Christian Canales, Lawrence Pingree, June 25, 2014. 4 DDOS attacks carry six-figure price tag for businesses, Drew Amorosi, December 24, 2014 http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/focus/archive/2014/12/ddos-attacks-carry-six-figure-price-tag-businesses5 Source: Gartner, Inc., Forecast Overview: Information Security, Worldwide, 2014 Update, Ruggero Contu, Christian Canales, Lawrence Pingree, June 25, 2014. 6 Oxford Economics, “The Path to Value in the Cloud” - http://www.windstreambusiness.com/media/268018/The-Path-to-Value-in-the-Cloud-by-Oxford-Economics.pdf 7 Greg Ferro, “Is networking infrastructure the Achilles’ Heel of cloud computing,” TechTarget, February, 2014 http://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/feature/Is-networking-infrastructure-the-Achilles-heel-of-cloud-computing

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The cloud-based security services market is rising

The risks increaseThe increasing adoption of mobile, cloud, social and information (often interacting together) is impacting security in terms of new vulnerabilities.3

An average mid-sized enterprise with $10 million in annual revenue could lose more than $150,000 from just one successful distributed denial of service attack.4

But...