TeleCity Launches Managed Security Service
22 December 2003
TeleCity, the award-winning European provider of colocation and data centre services, is launching a cost effective, outsourced security service for companies hosted in its London data centres. The new offering includes 24x7 monitoring and management of network infrastructure.
Rick Hudson, CEO, TeleCity said “Network security and the risks posed by viruses, hacking attacks and other breaches are a major concern for businesses of all sizes and sectors. Securing network infrastructure is a complex task and a round-the-clock responsibility. The Managed Security Service is designed to meet the demands of many of our current customers who’ve been asking us to help them manage and minimise the risks they’re exposed to.”
“By launching this service, we want to give our customers peace of mind and confidence that the information systems on which their businesses run can be fully protected from external threats in a cost effective way. This new managed service is part of TeleCity’s ongoing commitment to offer value-adding services to the businesses that collocate within our data centres and opens up more opportunities for us to expand our offering and grow our business.”
The Managed Service provides increased security on company firewalls and Virtual Private Networks with 24x7 visibility and support. TeleCity is deploying ICSA certified, ASIC accelerated FortiGate Antivirus Firewalls from Fortinet, which provide high-speed SMTP and HTTP Anti Virus Protection System with real time updates that will offer ongoing protection. Specifically, the new service includes the following capabilities:
Email and Web content filtering including Anti Virus scanning
Intrusion detection
Content protection
Perimeter protection and secure remote access
24x7 vigilance and management capabilities
Access to highly skilled security experts
With the managed security offering, TeleCity is enabling companies to have a fully-managed firewall service without having to recruit network security experts to run it. The Service has already attracted customers from the VOIP, media and content portal sectors. It has been launched in TeleCity’s UK data centres and the intention is to roll the service out across its European network in 2004.
About TeleCityTeleCity is a leading European provider of colocation and data centre services. Through its network of carrier-neutral data centres, it provides colocation, IT infrastructure management and IT services to communication service providers, corporate enterprises and the public sector. In February 2003, TeleCity was awarded 'Best Colocation Provider' by the UK Internet Service Providers Association for its outstanding data centre facilities, and high levels of customer service. The company has 9 locations across Europe, in Amsterdam, Dublin, London, Manchester, Frankfurt, Paris and Stockholm. Headquartered in London, TeleCity was established in 1998, floated on the London Stock Exchange (TCY.L) in June 2000 and posted a turnover of £23.8M in the year to December 2002.
About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)Fortinet's award-winning FortiGateT series of ASIC-accelerated antivirus firewalls, winner of the 2003 Networking Industry Awards Firewall Product of the Year, are the new generation of real-time network protection systems. They detect and eliminate the most damaging, content-based threats from email and Web traffic such as viruses, worms, intrusions, inappropriate Web content and more in real time - without degrading network performance. The FortiGate systems deliver a full range of network-level services firewall, VPN, intrusion detection and traffic shaping - as well as application-level services such as antivirus and content filtering, in dedicated, easily managed platforms. Fortinet, named to the "Visionaries" category in the 2003 Gartner Enterprise Firewall Magic Quadrant, is privately held and based in Santa Clara, California.
