ThreatSTOP is for anyone who wants to protect their networks, servers and users from attacks by bots, spammers and other forms of malware. ThreatSTOP's unique capability to block many forms of data leakage, as well as its assistance in reducing both Operational and Capital Expenditure (OpEx and CapEx) mean that it can benefit almost anyone. However, while almost anyone will benefit from it, certain types of user will receive particular benefits from it as we explain below.

Finance and other large enterprise

By stopping the outbound connections back to bot C & C hosts ThreatSTOP helps to cut out threats such as loss of confidential customer information and intellectual property.

Furthermore ThreatSTOP helps the enterprise prove compliant with legal restrictions that may, for example, prohibit the company doing business in certain countries.

Education

Institutions of higher education have a huge problem with SPAM and other bandwidth sucking malware. Applying ThreatSTOP will significantly reduce the load on mail servers because spammers typically use known networks of bots to send spam and these known bots are now blocked by the firewall thanks to the ThreatList.

As one of our educational users said "Where Politics control Policy, you block what you can't enforce."

Educational institutions, especially at universities and other tertiary educational institutions, have to run wide open networks and service a diverse community that is prone to experimentation and jealously guards their rights to access and privacy. As a result, unlike in commercial enterprises, the ability to enforce controls and standards at the desktop is often not feasible. By enabling blocking of bot traffic and command and control at the network level, ThreatSTOP lets network administrators of academic networks regain control of their network, and identify - and therefore assist - compromised users.

National Security(including Defense and Defense contractors)

Just as with commercial enterprises, the national security and defense communities have a vital need to block any data leakage of confidential information. ThreatSTOP blocks attempts by compromised machines on your network to "call home" to their controllers without interfering with normal traffic to/from other locations.

Government

As more and more business with taxpayers and residents goes online the requirement for robust, and secure, data networking increases. Typically however the budget has not been in place for full security. Initiatives such as "Securiring your eCity" are being developed to draw attention to this point but, in these times of falling tax revenues, any solutions applied must not involve major capital investments or large increases in operational expenditure. ThreatSTOP helps both to get more out of your existing firewalls and other network infrastructure and alwo to offload the grunt work of routine updates from your IT Security staff - allowing them to concentrate on other parts of their job

ISPs, MSSPs and other service providers

If you're already following the best practice of blocking on storm center data: Saves network operations staff time managing block and whitelists in firewalls; if not, it makes it feasible without an additional staffer.
Reduces operational and capital $ needs by saving Bandwidth, CPU cycles, disk etc. eaten up by SPAM, viruses, and network reconnaissance by hackers, even if those would have been blocked by other means; by making you invisible to the worst offenders.
Prevents data leakage and internal malware storms; and allows for remediation of infected machines; by blocking the "call home" of infected computers to Command and Control hosts and Phish drop-boxes.
Lets you see not just what was blocked by your firewall, but WHY.

eCommerce sites

Protects you from the most active cybercrime sources:
Verisign research indicated that over 50% of credit card transactions later found to be fraudulent came from just one of the IP sources ThreatSTOP propagates. A 50% reduction in on-line cc chargebacks is significant for most business that take credit cards.
If you're already following the best practice of blocking on storm center data: Saves network operations staff time managing block and whitelists in firewalls; if not, it makes it feasible without an additional staffer.
Reduces operational and capital $ needs by saving Bandwidth, CPU cycles, disk etc. eaten up by SPAM, viruses, and network reconnaissance by hackers, even if those would have been blocked by other means; by making you invisible to the worst offenders.

Small and medium businesses

As more of your business is going online you need to be sure that your data is secure and keeping firewalls and other network devices up to date can be a full time job for one of your limited IT staff. ThreatSTOP can easily take the place of a such a person at a considerably lower cost.

Security Consultants and VARs

ThreatSTOP makes an excellent portion of full service network security package, allowing you to sell a comprehensive security solution that protects your clients proactively and in a cost effective manner. We are keen to work with other industry professionals and have a number of resale programs that we will be happy to explain to you.

Security / Networking Vendors

ThreatSTOP gives you are standards compliant open standards based response to proprietary IP reputation and security pitches from competitors. By bundling a ThreatSTOP subscription with your product you can not just respond to competitive threats but you can increase customer loyalty by increasing the value of your security solution.