PORTLAND, Ore., April 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Uplevel Systems,
provider of integrated networking capabilities to managed service
providers (MSPs) serving small business, is making it easy for MSPs
to help small companies enhance their data security by restricting
access to high-risk Web sites. Intelligent filtering based on
Domain Name Systems (DNS) equips small-to-medium businesses (SMBs)
to control which sites their employees, guests, and teams can visit
to reduce the risk of downloading exploits or allowing hackers to
breach the company network—at a fraction of the cost of
lower-performing standalone firewalls.
"Simply limiting access to certain sites—for example, preventing
people from downloading cat videos from Facebook – lets small
companies avoid about 90% of the security problems that they
typically run into," says Glenn
Chagnot, VP Marketing at Uplevel Systems. "This type of
endpoint protection costs far less than investing in new firewalls
with intrusion detection, and our monthly subscription model lets
MSPs offer DNS filtering at a price micro-SMBs with 10 or fewer
users can afford."
DNS filtering adds a powerful dimension to Uplevel's strategy
for helping MSPs right-size smaller clients' cyber-security. No new
equipment is required and customers can obtain DNS filtering
licenses for as few as 10 users to avoid having to pay for unused
functionality. The feature includes the ability for customers to
easily black-list problematic sites, and expands Uplevel's
extensive security solution that consists of built-in
enterprise-class firewall capabilities, intrusion detection,
encryption, and ransomware protection. Pervasive, proactive
security designed specifically for SMBs is a cornerstone of
Uplevel's integrated networking platform that supports wired and
Wi-Fi networking, secure VPNs, and data storage services.
"Our goal is to equip MSPs to grow their own business faster
while bringing a better class of IT services to smaller companies,"
Chagnot adds. "Features such as DNS filtering make it easy to
educate, sell and support SMBs as they enhance data security
without maxing out the budget. It's a valuable component of a
'good, better, best' cybersecurity solution that gives companies
greater control, promotes higher productivity, and adds protection
against outages and emergency site calls by the MSP."
Uplevel's DNS filtering offering features best-in-class
flexibility by allowing SMBs to apply rules to certain groups of
users while excluding others and to implement policies at the
gateway level so they are automatically applied to new or deleted
users as employees enter or leave individual groups.
ABOUT UPLEVEL SYSTEMS
Uplevel Systems equips managed
service providers (MSPs) to deliver profitable IT solutions to
companies with less than 25 employees. Uplevel integrates firewall,
VPN, Wi-Fi, routing, storage and backup into a single integrated
solution to take MSPs beyond the desktop with compelling, remotely
managed IT infrastructure on a purely subscription basis.
With Uplevel, MSPs can unlock an underserved $1.3B IT market by delivering more with
less. The Uplevel solution promotes recurring revenues and
streamlines support for more clients with less equipment, travel,
time, cost, and complexity. MSPs can easily sell, support, and
scale managed services to the smallest businesses, turning
time-intensive unprofitable "break/fix" arrangements into
profitable long-term engagements.
Media Contact:
Glenn
Chagnot
193612@email4pr.com
817-898-0369
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