ROI and Other Cost Benefits of Reputation-Based Services

Published by Secure Computing on Feb 19, 2008

Reputation systems add a critical first line of advanced protection to help organizations accurately detect and block all types of threats to their messaging, web, and network environments.  In simplest terms, deploying a reputation service at the network edge is analogous to having a peephole in the front door of your house.  You let in people you know and trust, question the ones you don’t know and shun the ones who look suspicious.  Just by taking these simple measures you reduce your risk. 

Similarly, organizations can save a lot of money by filtering the bad traffic at the edge of the network using reputation based services.  Among other things, companies can save considerable amounts of money by:

• Improving bandwidth with fewer expenses
• Reducing infrastructure expenses to process already filtered content
• Savings in the form of lesser storage
• Eliminating the need to archive spam messages for compliance purposes
• Protecting against phishing, zombies, spam, malware, viruses, etc. and subsequent cleanup costs.

After examining this document, the reader will not only understand the importance of securing the network edge with a global reputation service but will also appreciate the huge savings that can be realized.