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Hosted Security Available with MPLS IP-VPN and IP Flex with VPN Services

N E T W O R K E N A B L E D C L O U D F E A T U R E O V E R V I E W

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Quickly and efficiently deliver uniform, network-based security as part of your company’s overall risk management strategy.

Select Hosted Security from XO to help prevent unauthorized access to your network infrastructure, block employee access to inappropriate web content, or to ensure secure use of your company’s IP-VPN or the Internet connection at one or more of your locations.

XO integrates the fully managed, Security-as-a-Service with your XO network service—so you can easily centralize network security controls and policies.

Network Security in the Cloud With Hosted Security from XO, your business eliminates the need to buy and manage premise-based, security devices and appliances. Instead, the cloud-connected suite of robust network security capabilities monitors the use of your company-wide data security standards and policies across your entire network.

B E N E F I T S

• Centralize control and management of data security policies

• Get up-to-the-minute information about potential Internet-based security threats

• Minimize the risk of unauthorized access to your company data

• Gain detailed utilization reporting on your Internet traffic

• Rely on experienced cybersecurity professionals to maintain your security policies

• Control who can access what—from any location*

• Help free up bandwidth—for legitimate business traffic

• Confidently grant access to the company network for new locations or employees*

• Reduce costs

* Available only with XO MPLS-based services

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H O S T E D S E C U R I T Y F E A T U R E O V E R V I E W


Using the security rules that you specify, XO Hosted Security helps you to:

• Identify and deflect Internet-based attacks on your company’s network*

• Make better use of your Internet connection by blocking unwanted traffic

• Block employees from accessing unauthorized websites

• Provide employees with secure access to your company’s intranet environments*

• Mitigate the risk of Internet hackers, malware or other malicious programs that could compromise your company’s intellectual property or critical business applications

• Maintain highly secure connections to your enterprise by providing the ongoing maintenance of security-related software updates and patches.*

Hosted Security from XO integrates next-generation network firewalls that use the industry’s top-ranked Unified Threat Management (UTM) platform, and 24/7 monitoring of your company’s security policies. This makes it easy for you to mitigate the risks of cybersecurity threats that could disrupt your business operations and damage your company’s reputation.

XO Hosted Security Service

Enterprise XO MPLS IP-VPN Services

Public Internet

Headquarters

Regional Oice

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Small Oice / Home Oice users connected into the corporate

network via “IPsec”

Geo-redundantfirewalls provide

full network protection

Remote Locations O-NetRemote workers connectedinto corporate network via

“Remote Access”

Mobile Workforce Access

Branch Oice 2

Branch Oice 3

Branch Oice 4

Branch Oice 5

Data Center




A Range of Security Options Hosted Security from XO encompasses a range of security-as-a-service capabilities that are available on a subscription basis.

Our installation expertise includes the set up of your virtual domain, set up and configuration of optional features, monitoring and management, and online custom reporting.

Great Flexibility and Scalability Hosted Security from XO offers aggregated Internet bandwidth that can be shared by all of your IP-VPN locations.* Scale the features as your needs grow to meet the changing requirements of your distributed workforce.

Optional Business Continuity Features Businesses needing special continuity features* for Internet traffic can get an additional firewall, if desired. This option enables you to gain network redundancy and business continuity failover protection from two geographically diverse physical gateways.

In addition, the next generation network firewalls that reside in the XO network divert unauthorized traffic from the public Internet away from your corporate network, or the Internet connection at one or more locations.

Next Generation Firewall Protection

Intrusion Detection and Prevention System

Web and Content Filtering

Secure Remote Access*

Off-Net Connectivity*

• Provides stateful packet inspection of Internet traffic and allows or denies traffic based on the IP header and ports involved in the connection

• Distinguishes legitimate packets for different types of connections

• Safeguards your network or your high-speed Internet access connection from targeted attacks

• Looks for anomalous data and generates an alert when it finds unauthorized data packets

• Protects users from entering company-prohibited websites

• Is easily custom designed; you can set up lists to allow or deny access based on company policies and best-use practices

• Allows users to connect to your corporate network while on-the-road or from an off-net, home office location

• Authenticates identification, grants access and maintains security privileges for the remote connections

• Maintains an off-net connection between your location and the network firewall

• Encrypts each packet in the data stream to ensure data integrity

Key features include:


XO Communications provides the technology that helps business and wholesale customers compete in a hyper-connected economy. In the U.S., XO owns and operates one of the largest IP and Ethernet networks that customers rely on for private data networking, cloud connectivity, Unified Communications and voice, Internet access, and managed services.


FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT YOUR XO REPRESENTATIVE, VISIT XO.COM OR CALL 866.349.0134


Benefit from the economies of combining network security for designated locations and users—

through a single provider on one invoice.

Round-the-Clock Management XO provides security services consulting to help you design the right security solution for the needs of your business. Reduce costs and simplify operations because you no longer need to buy, update, and monitor individual premise-based security devices and software.

For intrusion prevention and detection, our certified security partner uses one of the industry’s leading proprietary security intelligence databases, and security threat analysts proactively monitor and alert you to Internet-based threats to your entire network or to individual Internet connections.

Your network security professionals gain complete visibility and can access centralized threat management reports from a unified security intelligence system. Use the secure Hosted Security administrative portal to:

• Get on-demand reporting—about the health and security configuration of your network, or the Internet connection at one or more locations

• View incident response tracking—such as event and incident details, actions taken, attack header and payload and more

• Capture transaction audit details—including device log-ins, rules updates, configuration changes, actions taken and alerts issued.

An End-to-End Solution Hosted Security delivers a high level of network and content security without degrading the availability or performance of your XO MPLS Service. XO integrates XO IP-VPN with Hosted Security into an end-to-end networking and security management solution. You benefit from the economies of combining network security for designated locations and users—through a single provider on one invoice.

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