The security service is available for collocation, VPNs, dedi-cated access and dedicated servers, and includes managed firewalls, VPN service and intrusion detection. Customers are notified of a threat by phone or e-mail within 15 minutes of a confirmation. Intellisecurity includes seven firewall tools of varied sophistication and VPN capabilities built on software from Check Point, Nokia and NetScreen. Verio's intrusion-detection service also uses Enterasys Dragon equipment to monitor for unusual and suspicious traffic. Quinn says customers contract for the Intellisecurity service through Verio and receive a single service-level agreement and bill.
Riptech engineers configure the security policy, and install and monitor the security package.
Exodus has also partnered with Aventail to offer managed extranet services, which give companies, their customers and their partners secure access to applications via the Web, says Eric Kirsten, Exodus' director of product marketing for security. In addition to analyzing suspicious traffic and threats, CAMS will now use cryptographic methods to monitor directories and files on host computers to ensure they are not changed. If a change is detected, an incident response team of security professionals will not only review the breach and how it occurred, but also collect evidence that can be used for prosecution. Lydia Leong, an analyst with Gartner, says Exodus can offer a strong security service because of its years of experience and acquisition of security companies such as Arca. This is sort of generation 1.1 of the offering for Verio.