Secured Cloud Gateway Added to ANX's Security Solution

Secure Cloud Gateway has been added to ANXeBusiness Corp. or ANX’s PCI (News - Alert) Compliance & Security solution for small businesses. Proprietary technology has been included in Secure Cloud Gateway. The features of Secure Cloud Gateway (News - Alert) help to ensure merchant PCI DSS compliance. An announcement in this regard has been made by the top provider of managed security, compliance and connectivity solutions, ANX.

Cost benefits of cloud-based technology are offered by the ANX PCI Compliance & Security solution to merchants and small business. Threats from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, spyware and other malware launched from malicious web sites and email are eliminated by a suite of cloud-based UTM services delivered by the ANX PCI Compliance & Security solution. By residing at the customer premises, the Secure Cloud Gateway can work with ANX cloud-based services.

Direct incoming traffic through the ANX network is provided network routing by the Secure Cloud Gateway for scrubbing. External threats are eliminated by the Gateway before the traffic enters the customer network. Secure and reliable high-performance wireless access is provided through the Gateway’s Wi-Fi.

Apart from providing network security, the Cloud Secure Gateway monitors for the most severe threats. These include worms, viruses, buffer overflows and denial-of-service attacks. Weakness in security posture can be proactively identified with the internal vulnerability scanning feature of the Secure Cloud Gateway. PCI DSS requirement 10.6 is also supported by the Secure Cloud Gateway. This is done via log collection.

In a release, Paul Arceneaux who is the CMO of ANX said, "ANX continues to innovate in ways that best address customer needs. That includes containing costs without sacrificing functionality.   With Secure Cloud Gateway, we have created a solution that helps our customers maintain fully managed PCI DSS compliance while making that compliance extremely cost-effective for smaller businesses."

Protecting customers’ information is the mission of ANX. Apart from securing customers’ business interactions, ANX mission also includes to be the customers’ trusted platform for collaboration. ANX has its headquarters in Southfield, MI. The company also has offices in Research Triangle Park, NC; Mt. Laurel, NJ; San Diego, CA (News - Alert); and Austin, TX.

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