As
information security risks escalate and the cost of compliance mounts,
more companies are looking for expert help from Managed Security Services
Providers (MSSPs). The Yankee Group estimates that enterprises will
outsource 90% of their security solutions by 2010. (Yankee Group, 2004.)
Choosing a partner to trust with the “keys to your kingdom” requires
careful consideration and due diligence.

Execution Capabilities
VeriSign
is a publicly traded company (NASDAQ:VRSN) with a strong financial position.
Our MSS business has grown faster than the industry average for the
past three years to make VeriSign one of the largest MSSPs in the world
with thousands of customer devices under management worldwide. Our MSS
management team is globally recognized for their experience and maturity.
They are regularly quoted as an authority by major publications.
Vision and Strategy
VeriSign
maintains market leadership by reinvesting significant portions of annual
MSS revenue into research and development. VeriSign® TeraGuard, our
proprietary information management architecture, leads the industry
in scalability and performance to quickly and accurately correlate security
events and forward them for additional analysis by information security
analysts in our Security Operations Centers (SOCs). Leveraging intelligence
from our iDefense Security Intelligence team, thousands of devices under
management, and our unique position in the Internet infrastructure,
our highly trained analysts are able to more quickly identify evolving
threats and provide more detailed and actionable data to our customers.
VeriSign
supports the majority of market-leading commercial and open-source security
products with our vendor-neutral device management and monitoring, alerting
and reporting via a secure portal. Our security analysts use proven
processes and best-of-breed technologies to provide lifecycle management
and device monitoring for enterprise security. Our Security Defense
Appliance (SDA) acts as an intrusion detection sensor and vulnerability
scanner, normalizing, prioritizing and de-duplicating data before sending
it from the edge of the distributed VeriSign TeraGuard architecture
to our SOC analysts.