Security-as-a-service savings

For the study, Forrester interviewed four Alert Logic customers with diverse IT infrastructures and security and compliance requirements. Forrester then created a composite customer based on the characteristics of the interviewed customers. As stated in the study, “From the information provided in the interviews, Forrester has constructed a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) framework for those organisations considering implementing Alert Logic Solutions. The objective of the framework is to identify the cost, benefit, flexibility and risk factors that affect the investment decision.”

In the study, it was determined that a representative composite organisation with two data centers and 10 locations around the world would avoid labor costs associated with threat research, security monitoring, log management and web application firewall management of $632,282 by deploying Alert Logic’s security solutions. Additionally, the infrastructure capital and maintenance expense avoided for an equivalent insourced solution would be $548,544 and downtime expense avoided for end users from improved response to threats and attacks would total $183,185.

“All too often, organisations make investments in security and compliance solutions without a clear understanding of the on-going expense and savings associated with their investments,” said Dave Colesante, Chief Technology Officer for Alert Logic. “We decided to commission this study from Forrester Research to help organisations better understand those expenses and the savings they could achieve with our solutions. We believe the results of the study provide clear, unbiased findings that can help organisations choose the security solutions that enable them to focus on their core business in the most cost effective way, knowing that their data and their customers’ data is secure.”

Alert Logic offers Security-as-a-Service in the cloud – a platform of fully managed products and services designed to keep a customer’s data and infrastructure safe and compliant. The complete suite of Alert Logic solutions provides a unique set of benefits to the customer, including:
Deep insight into security via Alert Logic’s big-data analytics and correlation engine, global threat visibility and security research focused on emerging threats and security best practices.
Continuous protection across the application stack via a 24×7 Security Operations Center that analyses, escalates and works with customers to remediate threats with actionable intelligence.
Lower costs via a Cloud-based delivery model – no hardware or software for the customer to manage and a flexible pay-as-you-go licensing model.