Global Crossing Adds New Security Features

May 17, 2011

1computer-securityBermuda-domiciled  Global Crossing, a leading global IP solutions provider, today [May 17] announced the launch of Global Crossing Security Solutions, an enhanced portfolio of security capabilities that allow customers to more easily and thoroughly protect, manage and monitor enterprise networks.

The new suite of security features includes a firewall, intrusion prevention service, web content filtering, and antivirus and anti-spam capabilities, and provides reporting and analysis via Global Crossing’s award-winning uCommand customer portal. The company is using a new Security Information and Event Management [SIEM] platform, which generates the reports and posts them to the customer portal.

The SIEM platform resides in the Global Crossing Security Operations Center [SOC], where security professionals, analysts and engineers monitor and assess customers’ network security. Located in Phoenix, Arizona, the global SOC provides around-the-clock personal response to the security events of customers around the world.

Global Crossing customers also now have access to a full array of professional services from Global Crossing Security Consulting. These consulting services provide security assessments and audits, penetration testing, and vulnerability evaluations. Global Crossing professionals also review and create security policies and provide on-site incident response services.

“As multinational enterprises face an ever-increasing number of security threats to their networks, Global Crossing recognises the need to address – in a holistic manner – the entire spectrum of these potentially revenue-impacting attacks,” said Dave Carey, Global Crossing’s chief marketing officer. “Global Crossing Security Solutions cost-effectively extends our customers’ limited IT and security resources, and lets them concentrate on their core business while we keep their networks hardened and secure.”

According to independent research firm Forrester Research, the estimated size of the global managed security services market is about $4.5 billion, which includes outsourced and software-as-a-service [SaaS] security services, as well as annualised security operations.

Global Crossing Security Solutions draws on the expertise and industry leadership of two well-known security industry players: ArcSight, an HP company, and Fortinet.

The company is using the ArcSight Enterprise Threat and Risk Management platform to provide complete visibility across a customer’s IT infrastructure in order to proactively monitor and manage business risk. The ArcSight platform includes the industry’s leading SIEM products for collecting, analysing and assessing security and risk event information, and will provide external reporting to Global Crossing customers via the company’s self-service portal, uCommand. .

Global Crossing provides services to enterprises — including approximately 40 percent of the Fortune 500; international government departments and agencies; and 700 carriers, mobile operators and ISPs. It delivers converged IP services to more than 700 cities in more than 70 countries, and has 17 world-class data centres in major business centers around the globe.

The multi-national firms Bermuda offices are located in Wessex House on Reid Street.

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