Customers can also opt for email notification about some or all security events. Part of what makes the RIPTech offering effective, Yoran says, is that the company aggregates data from numerous security devices into a coherent whole. It also provides analysis, separating the false positive alerts from the serious security issues. Additionally, based on its findings, RIPTech will recommend patches and other changes that should be applied to security devices. This constant updating of security equipment is a task that many companies leave undone, Yoran maintains.
Smaller companies can rely on the offering as a turnkey security service.
Somewhat larger companies can actively monitor security activity, noting what trouble tickets are open and what is being done to fix them. Still larger firms with in-house security staff can perform their own analysis on the information RIPTech collects using RIPTech's data engine and query tools. RIPTech isn't the first to market with such an offering. A number of Internet service providers offer various levels of security monitoring. RIPTech claims, however, it has the expertise and tools to do the job better.