Protecting Small Companies From Attacks

HP debuts a range of security services for the small- and midsize-business market.

Martin Garvey, Contributor

May 19, 2005

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Small businesses rarely have the same IT resources to deploy as larger companies when it comes to business protection. Large companies find best-of-breed tools, install overlapping security capabilities, and strive to be protected from any attack. Small companies can be paralyzed by the overwhelming number of available products with a limited number of IT personnel to choose between them.

Hewlett-Packard's Business Protection service for the small and midsize business market combines data protection, business continuity, and security services. The security service unveiled Thursday includes protection against viruses, spam, spyware, and intrusion. HP also helps customers review their physical, data, application, and network-security and security-management needs. The service includes the Web-based SMB Security Solution Center that helps customers choose top-tier security products. And through the new App Security Layer services, HP will recommend third-party, best-of-breed products for customers.

From now on, new HP PCs and notebook computers will arrive with Symantec Norton Antivirus software on board. HP ProLiant servers will sell with a 90-day free option for the Trend Micro Client/Server Messaging Suite for protection against viruses, spam, and spyware. And the HP Compaq 5710 Thin Client will be preloaded with the Sygate Security Agent 4.0 firewall capability.

An industry analyst thinks HP's presence in the data center makes business protection a good wraparound service. Chris Liebert, an analyst at the Yankee Group, thinks HP is bringing together end-to-end security capabilities. "Other vendors don't capture the end-to-end needs like HP," she says. "They don't have the breadth and expertise of HP."

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