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What is the Panda Managed Office Protection security as a service sales model/concept?
Security as a Service (SaaS) is a concept or model where a company subscribes to a service instead of simply buying software licenses.
Security is no longer simply a question of technology, where companies buy licenses and install software. Security management and maintenance now requires human resources as well as hardware and software. Ensuring optimum protection is a task that can easily distract from the day-to-day running of a business.
Panda Security offers a ‘security as a service’ solution for companies that need to free themselves from the costs and hassle of maintaining security.
Panda Managed Office Protection is also an ideal solution for companies that need to centralize the protection of several offices in which they don’t have the resources to manage security.
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What are the benefits for Businesses who choose Panda Managed Office Protection?
- Minimal, predictable operating costs:
- No need for infrastructure investment:
- Administration servers
- Operating system
- Additional software licenses (e.g. databases)
- Server maintenance
- Infrastructure dimensioning when a company grows
- Time-saving and no need for specialized personnel
- Easy to install (click on url)
- Remotely managed through a Web console
- Automated upgrades/updates
- Reduces endpoint resources consumption. Protection is extremely light.
- Eliminates complex tasks. The Web console allows administrators to easily deploy, manage and monitor protection.
- Enables delegation of security management to specialized service providers, allowing clients to focus on their core business.
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Who can take advantage of the benefits offered by Panda Managed Office Protection?
- Small and mid-sized businesses that need a high-level of security for all their PCs, laptops and servers and that need to reduce the costs associated with additional security hardware and software, maintenance personal and other resources dedicated to antivirus protection. They can also, should they require, delegate security management to service providers.
- Companies with branch offices that need to centralize security management.
- Security providers who want to efficiently manage their clients’ security from anywhere at any time, through a single Web console, regardless of how many clients they manage.
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How much does a company have to invest to implement Panda Managed Office Protection?
The price of an IT solution is always a combination of three elements: software, hardware and human resources. With Panda Managed Office Protection, investment in hardware and software is reduced to zero. Another key factor is that all tasks that normally require manual intervention with an IT solution are automatic with Panda Managed Office Protection, thereby reducing investment in human resources.
All these factors combine to make Panda Managed Office Protection a solution that promotes efficient cost management.
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What levels of management and monitoring are possible with Panda Managed Office Protection?
Panda Managed Office Protection offers two levels of management and monitoring: Self-management by the end client or delegation of management to a third-party.
The self-management model is aimed at companies that manage and monitor their own security. In this model, the company accesses the Client Web Administration console in order to monitor and manage the security of its network and branch offices from a single central point.
The third-party managed model, is aimed at VARs and service providers that manage IT services for their clients and want to include security management in their portfolio.
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How do I subscribe me to Panda Managed Office Protection?
Panda makes it easy to subscribe to Panda Managed Office Protection. Simply contact your local partner (http://www.pandasecurity.com/about/contact/) to subscribe to Panda Managed Office Protection Service.
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FAQS for Panda Managed Office Protection about how it works
What is the Administration Web Console within Panda Managed Office Protection?
The Administration web console serves as your remote central point where endpoint status management, policy configuration and reporting of file system, email, web and Instant Messaging antivirus, and firewall, are integrated into an easy to use, web based console.
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What are the components of Panda Managed Office Protection?
Panda Managed Office Protection protects workstations, laptops and servers.
There are three main components:
- The Web administration console.
- The antivirus protection module.
- The firewall protection module.
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What services are included with Panda Managed Office Protection?
Panda Managed Office Protection is a security as a service (SaaS) solution for companies. This includes hosting and availability management services, security effectiveness management and technical support.
- Hosting services
The hosting service in Panda Security is available 24x7 and the management service
constantly monitors the status of servers and applications and takes action in case of any incidents, in order to make sure that the filtering service is always available.
- Automatic protection services
- Daily updates.
- Express updates in the event of epidemics.
- Virus warnings and information (SOS Virus).
- Automatic software updates and upgrades of the protection for endpoints and improvements to the Web administration console, without user intervention.
- Technical support
- Response to problems reported by clients via telephone or email 24h-365d.
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How does Panda Managed Office Protection protect PCs from email viruses?
Panda Managed Office Protection includes a technology that scan the attached files in SMTP, POP3 or MAPI emails, before accessing the PCs. This technology offers extra protection level to the file system one.
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How does Panda Managed Office Protection protect PCs from Instant Messaging viruses?
Panda Managed Office Protection includes a technology that scan the attached files file accessing the PCs. This technology offers extra protection level to the file system one.
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How does Panda Managed Office Protection protect PCs from Web and FTP viruses?
Panda Managed Office Protection includes a technology that scan the attached files file accessing the PCs. This technology offer extra protection level to the file system one.
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How do I install Panda Managed Office Protection on the computers?
Installation of Panda Managed Office Protection starts with the installation of the administration agent. This is responsible for automatically downloading the protection, and then installing it on the computers.
Panda Managed Office Protection offers two ways of distributing the protection:
- Sending the link via email to each computer by email so that each user can download it and run it manually.
- Downloading the installation program onto the administrator's computer and then carrying out the installation on the rest of the network.
Panda Managed Office Protection can also be installed using the distribution tool.
Further information about installing Panda Managed Office Protection is available in the Panda Managed Office Protection online help file or in the basic and advanced Panda Managed Office Protection guides: http://www.pandasecurity.com/enterprise/downloads/docs/product/managedprotection/
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What are the advantages of the P2P and Proxy systems?
- P2P system
Panda Managed Office Protection includes P2P technology to automatically and immediately detect if installation or update files are available on another network computer. If they are, the files can be obtained without having to download them from the Internet.
The basic advantage of this system is a significant reduction in bandwidth consumption.
- Proxy system
Panda Managed Office Protection includes proxy technology to optimize the functionality and protection levels of computers without Internet connections. Thanks to this technology, all necessary updates and communications can be made through other computers that do have an Internet connection.
The basic advantage offered by this system, is that it ensures optimum protection of any computer on the network, regardless of whether or not it has an Internet connection, and eliminating the need for users or administrators to manually update the system.
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If a computer does not have an Internet connection, is Panda Managed Office Protection the best protection solution?
Yes, unlike other solutions that do not have the necessary technologies, Panda Managed Office Protection, through its proxy system, offers the security that systems without an Internet connection will be truly protected, without the need for users or administrators to manually update the system.
The proxy system is a mechanism through which a computer without an Internet connection can update from other computers on the network.
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How secure are communications between Panda Security servers?
The information sent from the customers to the Panda Security Service travels securely via HTTPS and encrypted and compressed HTTP.
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