Security is a horizontal and pervasive infrastructure tool vital to network, applications, and, increasingly, content access and use. Prospective customers must be convinced that their corporate applications, data, and transactions will be secure for them to even consider engaging an ASP solution. The Internet has been both the stimulus and the driver of this growing trend. Indeed the pressure towards e-services has carried right through to where businesses also look to the major IT vendors, including Baltimore, to provide their software directly in a service form in addition to the product form.
Security is a critical element to the ultimate success of outsourcing across public networks.
Businesses cannot embrace e-services while serious question marks remain over the ability of service providers to manage authentication, authorization and content security in scalable manner. Equally, service providers operate in an extremely competitive marketplace of tight margins and only those who get the deployment of security right will survive. Fraud, viruses, data theft, illicit content, unauthorized access - all these security issues need to be tackled. Baltimore e-security enables businesses and service providers not only to stop these things happening but to start utilizing the outsourced IT infrastructure to the maximum for everyone's benefit, opening up new ways of managing employee, partner, supplier and customer relationships to reduce the cost of doing business and enhance revenue channels. Given Baltimore's own direct hosting services in USA, Europe, Japan and Asia, Baltimore e-security products are architected to operate effectively in the service environment.