Mobile Computer Services Explains The Benefits of Network Security Monitoring

 Network security monitoring and its benefits

A network failure can prove to be a huge setback to an organization. Considering the security threats and increasing network vulnerabilities, network monitoring has become an indispensable process for organizations. Mobile Computer Services, a managed IT services company, discusses why network security monitoring is so critical today.  

What is network security monitoring?

It is a service offered by managed IT service providers to keep a watchful eye over an organization’s network (both traffic and devices). The network security monitoring service will look for any security threats, network vulnerabilities, suspicious activity, and so on. This is a preemptive action that protects the network from any potential disasters by keeping a constant watch.

This proactive monitoring ensures that a business has an extra security defense and reduces the chances of disruption in business operations. A reactive measure after the security has been breached can lead to massive leakage of time, money, and productivity. 

Benefits of network monitoring

Here are some of the main advantages of network security monitoring:

1. Creates a performance benchmark

IT outages can be caused by human error, incompatible network changes, or the ever-growing complexity of technology. However, constant network monitoring offers foresight to the team by benchmarking daily performance and allowing them to capture any anomalies preemptively. 

With the help of effective monitoring, early warning signs can be identified and potential faults rectified before they escalate into major issues causing downtime and losses. 

2. Effective resource allocation

In the absence of network monitoring, an IT outage can lead to the diversion of resources from one critical business project to another, without any preparation. Considering that the usually short-staffed IT teams are always under duress with complex tasks and volume of work, the outages can strain the team’s capacity with tedious troubleshooting tasks. Network monitoring allows the team to foresee such outages and prevent themselves from investing all their energy in solely managing catastrophic network events.  

3. Manage the evolving IT environment

With technological innovations such as internet-enabled sensors, wireless devices, and cloud technologies, IT teams now have an array of technologies to monitor for any suspicious activity. With the current trend of increasing wireless devices connecting to the network as people continue working from home or bring their devices, there is a huge number and variety of devices that access a company’s infrastructure.

A network security monitoring will provide the IT teams with a comprehensive inventory of wired and wireless devices, help analyze long-term trends, facilitate optimum use of assets, and decrease expenses.

4. Arrest security threats

As cybercrime continues to become more sophisticated and common, network monitoring can provide network insights that can help IT teams detect and mitigate threats in time. By continually updating security patches and standardizing security settings on all individual workloads, IT teams can effectively maintain network security. This proactive arrest of security threats not only protects the company data and systems but also saves precious time that would otherwise be spent on addressing daily security threats.

5. New technology and ROI

Organizations that aspire to grow need to make financial investments in new technologies. However, it becomes impossible to determine the ROI on these projects without the monitoring and management of the network. Network monitoring allows historic insight into an equipment’s performance over time. This enables the analysis of trends to deduce the success of the new technology and its scalability. Moreover, the monitoring helps mitigate any associated risks of using new technology. 

Why Mobile Computer Services?

Mobile Computer Services is a professional IT services company that works with small and medium-sized businesses in Wake Forest. The services include:

1. Managed IT services - 24x7 proactive monitoring and management of the company's IT infrastructure.
2. Network services: Comprehensive care for the network systems provided by certified technicians.
3. Business continuity planning: Get the business back on its feet swiftly during and after disasters.
4. IT consulting: High-caliber advice from professional consultants to help achieve business goals.
5. Security: Safeguard business from malicious hackers and cyber attacks.
6. On-demand services: Day or night, the dedicated support staff is always available to assist.
7. Office move: Professional office relocation and network cabling services.
8. VoIP: Reduce telecom expenses and improve communications with powerful phone systems.
9. Email protection: Protect mail systems from spam and malware.

Contact Mobile Computer Services, Inc. at Wake Forest today at (919) 230-2900 for IT support, services and solutions.