MPLS as a Foundation for Security

Organizations of all sizes find it a challenge to maintain the skilled staff and specialized infrastructure required for optimal network security. Most are unable to staff a 24/7 security operations center. To address their staffing and skills gaps, they are increasingly using managed security services. The rise of the distributed enterprise and the spread of MPLS as the de facto WAN and ISP standard give carriers an opportunity to expand their piece of the managed security services market offering innovative security services in their MPLS clouds. Beyond offloading the burdens of monitoring and management, carrier-cloud security has position-driven advantages, especially in reducing the amount of traffic hitting enterprise sites, in mitigating DDoS attacks, and in providing complete security meshes to match communications meshes, without additional effort by the organization itself.