TPx Communications is added state-of-the-art monitoring and protection to its carrier-grade managed services and network connectivity offerings with its seven-figure investment in a state-of-the art Security Operations Center (SOC) in St. Louis. Supported by a nationwide team of security analysts with deep military and intelligence backgrounds, TPx’s SOC provides 24/7/365 protection and mitigation against ransomware such as WannaCry, DDoS attacks and an increasingly sophisticated panoply of threats to business information and security, said the company.
TPx, formerly known as TelePacific, says it is systematically building on its understanding of carrier services – taking responsibility for the end-to-end communications that increasingly define today’s businesses – and weaving them into the integrated set of managed services offerings that now form half of its nearly $700 million business. A key part of that equation is the new SOC, a blue-lit, screen-filled command center that keeps an eagle eye on all the activity traversing TPx’s customer networks.
“Managed IT and cyber threats are growing exponentially and we’ve made a strategic investment to provide both the technology and intellectual resources to support our customers’ needs for military-grade cybersecurity that is integrated into all the services we provide them,” said Jared Martin, vice president of ITx Managed Services for TPx.
The SOC was built from scratch, employing physical protections to its operations in the form of multistep access protection that includes fingerprint and facial recognition, glass walls that can be clouded to shield the center’s activities when there are outside visitors, and shielded cabling and a wire mesh envelope in the floor and ceiling construction that guards against unauthorized intrusion. Needs for enhanced physical data protection driven by requirements like HIPAA, PCI and CPNI standards were all designed in.
“I came here after 15 years working with the Department of Defense managing data security because the opportunity to design, build and run a SOC using the latest understanding of how to provide security was compelling,” said Adam Weber, SOC manager for TPx. “Customer needs – today’s and tomorrow’s—to be able to confidently run their enterprises in an increasingly volatile, weaponized data universe are what we built this SOC to provide.”
TPx of course plans to leverage the SOC’s capabilities to add to its existing set of security products. During the next six months, managed IT security offerings such as DDoS protection and advanced endpoint protection that are designed for the challenges of a mobile, distributed workforce will be rolled out to business customers around the country.
