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Savvis tightens up security

New hosted service is designed to offer firewall, intrusion detection and remedies for denial-of-service attacks.

Dawn Kawamoto Former Staff writer, CNET News
Dawn Kawamoto covered enterprise security and financial news relating to technology for CNET News.
Dawn Kawamoto
Web hosting company Savvis on Monday launched a hosted security service that is designed to offer firewall, intrusion detection prevention and mitigation of denial-of-service attacks within a company's wide area network. The Savvis Security Utility service is managed by Savvis, which provides its customers monitoring capabilities through its Web portal.

The Savvis Security Utility service will augment the company's existing security products and services, which include dedicated security appliances and security consulting.