IT Security Survey Reveals Network Vulnerabilities for Remote Locations

COMMERCE, Mich. - June 11, 2013 - PRLog -- Commerce, Mich. – June 11, 2013 – Nuspire Networks (http://www.nuspire.com/), provider of state-of-the-science network management and security solutions, recently released a study illustrating the specific security needs faced by corporate-owned or individually owned franchises, branch networks, and remote locations.  

Nuspire’s proprietary study reveals that an enterprise’s remote locations, including franchises, face a unique and challenging environment when it comes to IT and network security.  Findings include:

• On average, the gateway at the typical retail / branch office could be port
scanned over seven times each day.

• One in five remote locations will have the network gateway tested for open ports.

• This means that 20 percent of retail / branch office locations could allow malicious traffic into the network if a port is open.  

Nuspire Networks based the survey on selected Fortune 500 companies with dispersed, remote locations. Findings show that remote network architecture presents its own set of security management and monitoring challenges.

Notes Saylor Frase, President and CEO of Nuspire Networks, “As technology increases so do the chances of  hardware and software vulnerabilities.  This is particularly true for the large, dispersed enterprise with many remote locations. The challenge is to stay on top of the ever-growing vulnerabilities that come with large-scale networks.”

About Nuspire Networks
Nuspire Networks (http://www.nuspire.com/) is a state-of-the-science managed network security service provider with more than a decade of industry experience, providing services for some of the largest and most distinctive companies in the world. Nuspire is a true managed service provider that has moved beyond simple firewall maintenance and IDS monitoring to take responsibility for customer networks. Nuspire uses powerful custom-built management and monitoring tools, IPS, in-line AV/Anti-Spyware, URL filtering, and content-aware firewalling. Delivered "in the cloud" or with on-premise customer equipment, Nuspire provides a comprehensive suite of security services focused to meet the needs of organizations with a geographically diverse footprint.