IT managed service provider in MarylandNowadays, the deployment of any IT infrastructure component without a focus on what activity is occurring in real time is no longer an adequate strategy for businesses. Almost every company depends on its IT infrastructure to provide the necessary resources to execute their standard business activities. Without monitoring and alerting, it’s generally the same as installing a physical lock at your office, then discovering it has been forcefully removed. But instead of fixing it, you just leave it be.

The issue that commonly arises is that clients are focused on their business, as they should be, instead of their IT Infrastructure. That is where MTBW comes in as a Managed Service Provider, offering solutions that save clients time, money, and aggravation. With award winning Cloud based Managed Services solutions, MTBW can proactively monitor and alert either support personnel or client contacts or both when an issue occurs. Accordingly, the majority of these alerts precede an actual outage situation, so downtime can be averted.

What differentiates the MTBW Managed Services offerings from other providers?

The MTBW Managed Services are provided with a cafeteria approach in mind. In essence, you can select the devices you wish to monitor, though we provide guidance on key systems when evaluating your network infrastructure. In doing so, this approach allows you, the client, not the service provider, the ability to allocate budgets in a manner that is commensurate with their network.

MTBW Services knows with over two decades of being in business that though there are similarities regarding businesses, there is unquestionably no singular, cookie-cutter solution.

Furthermore, the vast majority of Managed Services offerings are “canned” solutions. Even if your company infrastructure and/or resources differ from the template of the “cookie cutter” solution, you have to select from only what is offered by that service provider.

MTBW Services will evaluate and review your network infrastructure to find a service that will undeniably be most beneficial to YOU! Our client-first perspective ensures that the needs of your company are what is chiefly driving decision-making. Therefore, each of the items that are available under the Managed Services are competitively priced to allow any budget the advantage of pro-active monitoring and support. Packaged offerings are likewise available for additional savings.

Here is a list of some of the solutions MTBW offers as a Managed Service Provider:

  • Monitor the availability and performance of devices, including desktops, laptops, servers, printers, firewalls, security appliances and routers.
  • Detect customers’ IT problems before they lead to costly downtime
  • Monitor all of networks and devices from a dashboard
  • Instant Alerts
  • Reduced Labor Rates
  • Remote Control Capabilities to reduce site visits, expedite service and reduce costs
  • Network Monitoring: Ethernet Errors, Traffic, Bandwidth, Frame Relay, TCP, SNMP
  • Internal & External Vulnerability Testing & Remediation
  • Windows System Monitoring
  • Email Server Services
  • Backup Job Completion & Testing
  • Core Services Monitoring (Remote Desktop, DHCP, DNS, Domain Controller, RPC….)
  • Connectivity
  • CPU
  • Disk Space Usage
  • Disk Queue Length
  • Event Log
  • File Size
  • Local IP
  • License compliance
  • Memory
  • Patch Level Status Verification
  • Process
  • Asset Inventory
  • Reporting Capabilities
  • Patch Management
  • Mail Filter Activity Report
  • Antivirus Activity Report
  • Network Activity Report
  • FTP Activity Report
  • Web Activity Report
  • Terminal Activity Report
  • Mail Activity Report
  • Web Filter Activity Report
  • Intrusion Activity Report
  • Consultation regarding Security and Traffic Analysis Reports
  • Recommendations regarding access policy adjustments
  • Verification of antivirus, Intrusion Detection/Prevention and MALWARE definitions are automatically being updated as they are eventually released
  • Lab Testing of all Maintenance Releases
  • Implementation of firewall policy adjustments
  • Installation of firmware Maintenance Releases

Existing Managed Service Provider Agreement Modification

In short, the goal of this is to proactively monitor your network’s health. Similar to the capabilities we use while troubleshooting internet access issues, this service provides additional performance and management abilities. In that case, this would allow the potential remediation before users are affected. Basically, this service is provided with a cafeteria approach in mind. Moreover, you can select the devices you wish to monitor, though we highly recommend your core systems.

Some of the services offered:

  • Monitor the availability and performance of devices, including desktops, laptops, servers, printers, firewalls, security appliances and routers
  • Detect customers’ IT problems before they lead to costly downtime
  • Monitor all of networks and devices from a single dashboard
  • Instant Alerts
  • Network Monitoring: Ethernet Errors, Traffic, Bandwidth, Frame Relay, TCP, SNMP
  • Windows System Monitoring
  • Email Server Services
  • Tape backup Job Completion
  • Core Services Monitoring (Remote Desktop, DHCP, DNS….)
  • Connectivity
  • CPU
  • Disk Space Usage
  • Disk Queue Length
  • Event Log
  • File Size
  • Local IP
  • License compliance
  • Memory
  • Patch level
  • Process
  • Asset Inventory
  • Remote Control Capabilities to significantly reduce site visits, expedite service and reduce costs
  • Reporting Capabilities (Internet usage, system performance
  • Patch Management

UTM/Firewall Monitoring

In addition, MTBW services also offers a UTM/Firewall Monitoring service.  On top of all of the benefits of Security and Traffic Analysis Reports, this solution also provides much more. UTM/Firewall Monitoring uniquely insures that your Fortigate is receiving and applying immediately all anti-virus, Intrusion Detection/Prevention, and SPYWARE definitions as they are released. Additionally, clients are provided testing of all Maintenance Releases in a lab environment, sparing them the potential down time of applying an update that doesn’t work. We also include a scheduled consultation to supply the client with an indepth analysis of all their reports. Obviously, this information can ease the implementation of the proper access policies that are needed as threats evolve.

UTM/Firewall Management

Finally, the third level Managed Security Services from MTBW Services is the UTM/Firewall Management solution. Surprisingly, some clients may uncomfortable applying UTM/Firewall policy modifications and firmware updates. Following a consultation, MTBW Services, Inc. will apply the necessary adjustments and firmware updates after lab testing. In short, this relieves the onus from the client of potentially configuring the system improperly and interrupting Internet access.

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