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These days, network connectivity is essential for most organizations' operations. While this connectivity brings a wealth of valuable resources into the workplace, it also creates a very dynamic, unpredictable security environment. In the past year the worldwide business community has been affected by a number of serious viruses, worms, and hacking waves, all of which could have been prevented through proper vulnerability monitoring and patching. Overworked and underappreciated IT staff members try to keep up with the endless stream of vulnerability and patch announcements, but their efforts are dampened by the distraction of day-to-day support activities and projects. There simply isn't enough time to keep up with the flow of patches and vulnerability information. Applied Trust solves this problem by providing a service that evaluates your organization's current vulnerability and patch status, creating a database of devices, systems, and applications in use at your site. As new information arrives, our team of security professionals evaluates its specific impact and risk to the security of your organization. When a situation warrants action, Applied Trust can either provide your IT staff with a detailed analysis and mitigation recommendation or take steps to mitigate the issue directly. Either way, your staff is freed from the burden of daily patch vigilance. We provide this service to you in a very cost-effective manner. Because we're already evaluating new patch and vulnerability announcements for ourselves and other clients, the cost to you is minimal -- much less than the cost of your staff evaluating the same information solely for your organization. In addition, because we are security professionals who have experience with other environments, we can take the guesswork out of assessing the practical risk of an issue -- no more panicking over over-hyped, low-risk announcements. Unlike patch management software alternatives, Applied Trust acts as your IT staff's eyes and ears in the network community. Armed with a detailed knowledge of your systems and networks, we make intelligent, reasoned decisions about how to react to situations. Patch software can't make the decision that the fastest, most effective way to stop the spread of a virus is by adding a filtering rule to your firewall, and an active intrusion detection system can't patch your Exchange server so that everyone can get work done. We all need tools and systems to improve our efficiency; Applied Trust provides a team that uses tools like these and applies human intelligence and organizational knowledge to quickly and effectively analyze and address security issues on your behalf. Features:
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