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• Who is the Barrier Group?
The Barrier Group is the first company to provide a complete, comprehensive, affordable IT security solution. Our solution is an easily installed, self-contained appliance called Barrier1™, combined with our world-class security-based monitoring and maintenance services.
Barrier1™ combines the very latest in powerful software and hardware technologies. Incorporating patent pending configurations and The Barrier Group’s professionally managed security services, Barrier1™ delivers the first complete single-source IT Security solution available in the marketplace. The Barrier Group is a Minnesota Corporation headquartered in a suburb of Minneapolis. |
• Who started The Barrier Group and how long has it been around?
| After three years of design, development and testing by a select team of IT pioneers, The Barrier Group was founded by Steve Sahl and Robert Demopoulos in September 2003. |
• What problems does The Barrier Group solve?
| The Barrier1™ appliance is the first comprehensive, single source and cost-effective answer to the challenge for complete IT security. |
• What is The Barrier Group’s target market?
| The Barrier Group provides products for every size organization. We gear our solution to any business, education or governmental entity that wants single source suppliers. |
• How do I get more information about The Barrier Group?
• What’s unique about the technology in the Barrier1™ appliance?
| A single Barrier1™ appliance combines more security technologies at a higher level of integration than any other solution. This higher level of integration allows for greater intelligence analysis capabilities by the Advance Analysis and Reaction Engine which uses heuristic, statistical and advance techniques to analyze threats. |
• What’s the value of integrating multiple security technologies into a single appliance?
| As IT security grows increasingly complex and multifaceted, it’s also potentially very expensive. The Barrier Group treats IT security as a single problem to be overcome instead of as a multitude of independent, unrelated activities. Success becomes a proactive and highly achievable endeavor instead of a reactive flawed posture of fear. From a technological standpoint, hardware and software created to work together is simply a better built mousetrap! |
• How do organizations benefit from the Barrier1™ solution?
| Barrier1™ cost-effectively eliminates all critical issues of IT security. This allows Barrier1™ customers to focus on their business. |
• What are the advantages of The Barrier Group’s solution?
- Barrier1™ often reduces the cost of IT security by as much as two-thirds.
- Barrier1™ evolves and responds to unforeseen threats.
- The service component– the human element– serves customers 24/7.
- Customers need need work with only one supplier instead of managing a network of point solution based IT security companies.
- Most important– Barrier1™ works.
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• What types of patent pending technologies are in the Barrier1™ solution?
- Appliance integration and management
- Advanced Analysis and Reaction Engine
- The process of sharing attack and corrective action activities among Barrier1™ customers
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• Who is The Barrier Group’s competition?
| Nobody else offers a solution as comprehensive as The Barrier Group. Some companies provide point solutions or a combination of point solutions including vendors of firewalls, IDS, IDP, antivirus software, anti-spam software and network monitoring services. Other companies provide an appliance-based solution, but at a much higher cost to performance ratio, and without 24/7 monitoring and maintenance. Nobody else offers a total solution comparable to The Barrier Group. |
• Why should we concern ourselves about an integrated security solution?
| Any IT security system, integrated or not, should be monitored, maintained and upgraded around the clock. Threats to the network are constant, ever changing and evolving. Security must never cease for a moment because the bad guys never rest. |
• Do other security appliance companies monitor their security appliances in their customer’s environments?
| They should. To provide continuous, complete protection all security appliances need to be maintained, monitored and tuned to optimal operating conditions. Every Barrier1™ security appliance is monitored 24/7 by the highly trained security professionals of the GTMC. They work to verify that dynamic protection is operating at the optimum level to make the customer's network totally invisible. |
• What is a GTMC?
A GTMC is a Global Threat Management Center. Staffed with highly trained security professionals 24/7, active monitoring ensures that Barrier1™ protects against emerging threats on a continuous basis. Services provided by the
GTMC include:
- Global Threat Analysis and Response
- Continuous Appliance Monitoring and Maintenance
- 24/7 response to customer inquiries
- Incident Tracking
- Customer Reporting
- Service Level Tracking
- Forensic Analysis of security events
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