Security is counter intuitive. Example: Fort Knox vs. a server in your office closet. The closet feels better, right?
"How secure is the cloud?" That's a question we often hear. The simplest, and most telling answer is that our security, on every level, stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the safeguards protecting global financial assets. Our clients are in the most security-conscious industries and choose External IT for that reason.
A slightly more detailed reply might begin with a look at our system architecture. To begin, intrusion preventions are not an afterthought or add-on. They're built right in so as to guard against malicious attack, using best-practice security processes and backed by industry-leading hardware and software security tools.
Our backup and replication gives you the flexibility to run different schedules, each appropriate for different departments. You can replicate your assets daily, weekly, monthly, or continuously via synchronous mirroring technology. You can have single-site server replication, multi-site replication, and DR scenario planning to address the most demanding requirements.
A tour of our Data Centers themselves is often an impressive event. Each is equipped with a dual-alarmed, dual-interlock, multi-zoned, water-based dry pipe system to guard against fire. Sensors sample the air and set off an alarm prior to water pressurization. Each building resides above sea level and 500 year-old flood plains, and is equipped with dedicated pump rooms, drainage/evacuation systems, and moisture detection sensors. They exceed local building codes as well as lateral seismic force specifications.
With External IT, you have end-to-end management, complete application-level support, 24 x 7 monitoring, and highest level SLAs optimized to your specific application needs.
And just as importantly, our security extends to protecting your ability to meet all of your compliance requirements, and do so with an easy-to-reference audit trail index—one of the reasons why companies in the healthcare and financial sectors depend on us every day.
There is a very good chance that we can provide you with a higher level of security than is watching over your company right now. And if you're one of the few firms that’s still housing your irreplaceable information in your office (or on the laptop that your new VP just left on the plane), we’re fairly certain there's more than a good chance.
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