Today Telkom Business
SA introduced Consolidated Threat Management (CTM) to the market, a
comprehensive security service offering for perimeter and branch office
networks.
“CTM is a leading-edge,
all-inclusive offering that sets the benchmark in the South African IT security
landscape,” says Vaughn Naidoo, the head of Product Portfolio, Architecture and
Innovation at Telkom Business.
CTM serves to protect businesses of all sizes
and sectors from simple day-to-day IT security threats as well as evolving
blended attacks, including worms, trojans, viruses and malware.
According to Naidoo, this offering
bears testament to Telkom Business’s vision of being the converged
ICT market leader. “With CTM, customers get a comprehensive security
offering, based on a single technology platform, from one service
provider. The net impact of which is reduced complexity and cost.”
CTM is a fully managed and supported
service, including elements like:
- Policy and configuration management
- Automated reporting and communication
- Security policy configuration and log backups
- SLA, support and maintenance services
- Health, availability and performance management
“There are a number of benefits to
how we have configured the functioning and overall servicing of CTM,” explains
Naidoo. “This lies primarily in reduction of cost and technical expertise
needed due to the simplicity of the solution. CTM has an easy plug-and-play
architecture and allows organisations to be compliant in respect to regulatory
security controls.”
The service also includes a
dedicated managed service that can be deployed at the customer’s premises or
hosted at the Telkom Business data centre.
CTM is the first of three releases
and forms the cornerstone of what will ultimately become a bigger portfolio.
The second and third releases are scheduled to go to market in the latter part
of 2013 and early 2014, respectively.
