IS Outsourced Firewall (Continued)

Benefits

• Fully Outsourced Solution: The IS Outsourced Firewall is a fully managed, hosted and supported solution which eliminates the time, skills and expense a company faces when setting up and maintaining its own firewall onsite. Furthermore, by eliminating unwanted Internet traffic at an ISP level, valuable Internet bandwidth can be optimised.
• User Permissions: The authentication integration of the IS Outsourced Firewall with a clients internal or onsite domain controller, allows IT administrators to authenticate users based on their local and apply firewall policies to different user groups within the organisation. This authentication functionality will be transparent to the end user and is controlled and managed the client domain controller. For customers who do not use a local domain or LDAP server, a static username and password is configurable via the IS Customer Zone. Detailed IS Outsourced Firewall
• Reporting and Monitoring: The advanced reporting structure provides high levels of transparency into the internet line utilization and the individuals responsible for the utilization of specific internet protocols (eg – Web sites browsed and HTTP bandwidth used per user or for the organization as a whole). This reporting is delivered via IS’ web base customer portal, the IS Customer Zone. All report logs are stored for 60 days and reports can be run in real time or scheduled to be delivered in .pdf format via mail.
• Economies of Scale: The IS Outsourced Firewall environment is built to very high levels of infrastructure redundancy, this type of high availability environment is extremely expensive for a single client to deploy, involving multiple devices and technologies. However, by leveraging off IS' robust infrastructure, deployment can be brought down to affordable levels.