StillSecure and XO Communications Announce Agreement for Security Services

StillSecure, a managed network security solutions and certified compliance company, and XO Communications, a communications service providers, have entered into a pact to provide a suite of managed security services to business customers.

"The holy grail for customers is secure, fast, reliable, and cost-effective access to the services they need when they need them. By adding a suite of cloud-based network security services, XO Communications (News - Alert) is significantly expanding our security services portfolio,” said Mike Toplisek, chief marketing officer for XO Business Services at XO Communications in a statement. 

Toplisek said that this represents the continuing expansion of the company’s cloud-based service delivery strategy.

"Customers continue to struggle with securing their Internet infrastructure. XO Communications is smart to leverage their deep, trusted relationship with customers to help solve these issues with a suite of managed security services," said David Mandell, chief marketing officer at StillSecure (News - Alert).

Mandell said that solving security problems in the cloud – prior to them hitting a customer's premises – is the next level for forward thinking telcos.

He said that StillSecure is proud to partner with XO Communications to deliver this innovative offering to market.

Recently StillSecure had announced the next version of Safe Access, the company's award-winning NAC solution.

This release adds advanced guest and remote user authentication functionality, increased scalability, and significant usability and administration enhancements. Safe Access is utilized by leading mid-market and large-scale enterprises and Federal organizations and is the NAC solution of choice for the world's largest NAC deployment.

With this latest release, Safe Access provides a much more diverse range of guest access opportunities. Safe Access's guest management easily scales to support the most demanding enterprise, and provides granular guest access control, auditing and reporting.

Granular access controls can be set up for all restricted devices, whether they are unmanaged, guests, or quarantined production devices. This provides a central location for endpoint accessibility controls and eliminates need for time-consuming and difficult-to-manage ACL configuration on routers.

Guest accounts can be stored and managed on-board using Safe Access's built-in LDAP server or they can be stored in a separate Microsoft (News - Alert) Active Directory server, simplifying deployments and allowing guest users to be either segregated from, or managed with normal production users.