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From our experience, hackers targeted SMBs under the premise that they’re likely ill-equipped to handle a security breach.  

Having in-depth visibility into network activity helps you proactively identify malicious network activity and find holes to patch that could turn into larger security issues in the future. This provides valuable insight into the source and nature of all traffic flowing across the network.

By regularly monitoring traffic on critical devices, it’s easy to spot suspicious changes in inbound and outbound traffic.  It is also a requirement for just about every major compliance framework and regulation, from PCI DSS to HIPAA and others.

Powerhouse Systems provides affordable Cyber Security Monitoring to our customers, continuously checking for anomalous activity, ensuring that you’re continuously upholding your compliance requirements with a solution that’s always-on and proactively protecting you from cyber-attacks.

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Securing data from being stolen is a top concern for both enterprises and Small & Medium Businesses.  And for good reason—the average cost of a data breach in 2017, according to several sources went up to $117k for small organizations.  That is an increase from 2016 when the average cost was $36,000 to $50,000.

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Experience show us that hackers target SMBs under the premise that they’re likely ill-equipped to handle a security breach.  These are the same organizations that feel they can’t justify the cost of an expensive detection systems or haven’t taken the appropriate defensive measures against cyber-crime.  Having in-depth visibility into network activity helps you proactively identify malicious network activity and find holes to patch that could turn into larger security issues in the future. This provides valuable insight into the source and nature of all traffic flowing across the network.  By regularly monitoring traffic on critical devices, it’s easy to spot suspicious changes in inbound and outbound traffic.  It’s  also a requirement for just about every major compliance framework and regulation, from PCI DSS to HIPAA and others.  But for smaller companies they are faced with a number of challenges; Network security monitoring is more difficult today than it was two years ago. Some of this can be attributed to an increase in the volume of malware and an overall increase in network traffic, especially encrypted traffic (SSL or TLS).  Network visibility as well as threat intelligence is all about timing.  To detect threats quickly, you need timely data and resources to respond to those threats.  Due to the complexity of cybersecurity there becomes a number of challenges across the people, processes, and technology. There are also areas of the network that they can’t see or don’t see very well. That makes it hard to get an end-to-end view of what is occurring on the network.

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By adopting Cyber Threat Monitoring you can achieve;

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• Early Threat Detection: Exploiting IT for weakness does not usually happen the first time around.  Monitoring will give you specific event logs to quickly identify events that are suspicious.

• Internal Security Policies: There is a reason companies have Internet ‘Acceptable Use,’ ‘Change Request,’ and ‘Remote Users’ policies. Monitoring your network means monitoring these types of policies and being alerted when they are violated.

• Compliance: Whether for the company itself or because of guidelines set forth by the federal government, some industries may have no choice but to monitor their environment, and there’s a good chance those logs have to be archived for several years.

• Track Trends: The best way to know where you are going is to understand where you have been. IT is a moving target, and decision-making becomes a whole lot easier when you have time-lines from the past.

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Many organizations are challenged to invest in the proper people, technology and process that is required for an effective information security program. Others invest in the technology but lack resources or on-staff expertise to implement an effective program. Powerhouse Systems delivers effective Security Operation Center Services to our customers, continuously checking for anomalous activity, ensuring that you’re continuously upholding your compliance requirements with a solution that’s always-on and proactively protecting you from cyber attacks.