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Selecting an MSS Provider


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.

Quote from Yankee Group Survey

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.


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