East Sussex business Managed Services Centre helps organisations to combat international cybercrime.

Nov. 9, 2010 - PRLog -- Bodiam, East Sussex: Information security experts Managed Services Centre (MSC) are enabling organisations to operate securely online, providing the best services to their customers who are safe in knowledge that their assets are not vulnerable. The threat posed by operating online has increased dramatically in recent years, reinforced by the UK government’s decision to allocate £500 million in spending to improving cyber security over the next 4 years. As the internet is now worth £100 billion a year to the UK economy, companies cannot afford to not have an internet presence.

Over 40,000 Trojans were reported to be in operation in July alone, and it has been stated by Verizon that 90% of computers worldwide are infected with a virus. According to the Information Security Breaches Survey, a data breach can cost a small business an average of 1.9% of their annual revenue. In addition to this, 74% of small businesses who participated in the ISBS report have encountered a malicious security incident within the past year. This level of criminal activity demonstrates the necessity to protect business operations from direct attacks, defacement and phishing for example, particularly as threats are global, rather than being contained to the UK alone.

Due to the nature of modern business operations, there is a heavy reliance on technology combined with the new demands of online activities. MSC have over 25 years of experience within the IT and security industry and therefore have the knowledge and tools to provide specifically catered security policies based on the exact needs of the business in question. The policies are built from the four core services: MSCmanage, MSCprotect, MSCvault and MSCmail, which currently serve organisations including national building societies and international government organisations.  

According to Nick Bridgen, Director of MSC: “Business’ attitudes need to change from; dealing with the problem as and when it happens, to proactively protecting the business’ operations and data continuously. It means that, if an attack of breach occurs, then the technology is in place to prevent downtime causing additional expenses to the business. We understand businesses need to focus and refine their spending during such competitive economic times; however it is worth noting that the cost benefit a secure IT infrastructure would provide far outperforms the alternative of risking minimal protection and the cost of having to deal with the attack when it happens. Our MSCprotect service provides a business with complete satisfaction that they have full reputation protection and threat management against any cybercrime campaigns which may be in operating online. We regularly update our services to ensure that the latest threats are being dealt with, whether this is a new Trojan or a phishing attempt.”

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