Verizon Business Advances Global IP Networking

Verizon Business is advancing IP networking to help improve application performance and security across an extended enterprise of employees, customers, suppliers and partners.
The company has unveiled several new ‘cloud-based’ (in the network) capabilities that further strengthen Verizon Private IP. The new capabilities are:

* Asset Assurance - a new suite of fault management and monitoring tools and reporting capabilities that provide a cost-effective solution for global network device management. (Available in the US currently, to be extended to other countries by end of 2009)

* An enhanced Internet Security Assessment service, available globally, to provide expert analysis of potentially harmful traffic that could undermine the network connecting an extended enterprise.

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* New managed security capabilities for Verizon Secure Gateway - Firewall, also available globally, aimed at protecting customer networks from harmful traffic as enterprises move data, voice and video traffic between public and private networks.

The SaaS Solution for Network Management

Verizon Business’ new Asset Assurance, powered by CA Spectrum Infrastructure Manager, will advance network monitoring, IT service management and service-level reporting for devices across a customer’s private IP network.

Asset Assurance is a SaaS-based service that employs a powerful combination of device monitoring, alarming, fault isolation, root-cause analysis, service-level reporting and IT service management that allows customers to pinpoint the cause of incidents and quickly remediate issues across their infrastructure. The service helps companies mitigate issues that can compromise network health while also reducing the time it takes to identify and repair problems that may occur.

The new service is available with the Verizon Private IP - Layer 2 and Layer 3 network services. The solution’s three package options - standard, enhanced and premium - are tailored to meet the diverse requirements of customers of all sizes, and offer features for the IT manager up to the most-senior executive.

Internet Security Assessment helps secure Extended Enterprise

Verizon Private IP customers around the world can now take advantage of Verizon Business’ Internet Security Assessment. This solution provides customers with an innovative approach to review important aspects of their security posture and then assess the risks associated with Web-based network infrastructure. The Internet Security Assessment includes Virtual Discovery & Classification and External Risk Assessment, supported by professional services.

Virtual Discovery & Classification helps enterprises understand emerging threat activity and other related network issues. The External Risk Assessment service utilises intelligent vulnerability scanning and identifies potential threats to a network’s health such as historically vulnerable software, unnecessary services and unusual use, as well as devices that have atypical characteristics that may indicate risks.

New Secure Gateway Firewall Capabilities

Verizon also announced new capabilities available globally for its Secure Gateway offering. Specifically, Private IP customers can now take advantage of a fully-managed offering that enables them to offload the management and administration of the network-based firewall.

Verizon’s security experts can help customers determine and implement optimal firewall policies to serve as an effective first layer of defense against potentially harmful traffic. Verizon Business will work with customers to implement appropriate firewall policies and will monitor and update those policies as business requirements change.

Verizon Business’ Secure Gateway Firewall services can be used with Private IP and Verizon’s other network services. Customers benefit from extending their communications reach by securely exchanging traffic between Private IP and the Verizon Business global Internet backbone.