A comparison against the security provided from On Site IT Vs Hosted Desktop. With Venom IT's hosted desktop you really do get an enterprise level of security.

1. Security Comparison
Between On Site IT Vs
Hosted Desktop
On Site Hosted Desktop
Backups Many on-site solutions use tape
drives, which are manually done
most evenings and stored in a cup-
board or spare room somewhere.
Tapes are sensitive and suscepti-
ble to corruption, and the tape
drives themselves need regular
servicing. Tapes only give you a
daily backup so if any issues occur
with the server, you can only roll
back to a previous taken backup.
Also to roll back from tape can
take days.
The Cloud gives you a fully automat-
ed daily backup of all data and appli-
cations. Also Venom’s hosted desk-
top solution includes an hourly file
backup. So, if you accidentally delet-
ed the file you are working from,
there is a version from the previous
hour. Also, these back-ups are repli-
cated not once but twice (at a differ-
ent site) for a complete disaster re-
covery solution. A full cloud server
backup can be restored within a few
hours, therefore enabling you to be
back up and working in the same day.
Firewalls On site you will probably have a
£250 router acting as a firewall
giving basic level security on the
system.
Venom’s data centres have military
grade firewalls that all your data will
sit behind. Giving you a world-class
level of data security.
Email Sandboxing N/A Venom’s email sandboxing means
that whenever an email is sent into
the system, our firewall will go
through the whole email content,
including attachments & links, check-
ing every minute detail for any mali-
cious links or viruses.
Software Updates/Patch Manage-
ment
This comes down to individual
users or IT provider. These will be
done as and when a user is alerted
to update. Some Microsoft up-
dates can cause issues which in
theory can cause users downtime.
Users may put the updates off
until the last minute as they do
not have time to do them, or they
find them an inconvenience.
All updates are automated with Ven-
om IT’s hosted desktop solution. We
also wait 30 days before rolling out
any Microsoft updates, to ensure
there would be no user down time.
All updates are also run out of hours,
usually at 10pm Saturday evening,
again reducing potential downtime or
user slowness.

2. Server housing Most of the time servers sit in the
main office or a room out the
way. This can still give people
access to the server, which is a
hazard. Also in the event of theft,
all physical servers and equip-
ment can be stolen.
Venom IT’s servers are part of our
Cloud infrastructure housed in a Tier
3 data centre with some of the most
sophisticated security of any data
centre in Europe. The data centre
also has its own backup generator in
case of any power outages within
the area. Please ask for more infor-
mation on the security of our data
centre.
Server Licensing On Site server licensing eventual-
ly becomes end of life meaning
Microsoft stop releasing updates
and more importantly security
updates. This can leave your serv-
ers being vulnerable to malicious
attacks and viruses
With Venoms hosted desktop we
constantly keep all servers up to
date with the latest licensing and
updates on request, therefore keep-
ing up to date with protection from
malicious attacks and viruses.
UPS Power Management Most office plug the server direct-
ly in to the wall. This can cause
issues if there is a power cut in
the building or also can cause
issues from potential power surg-
es.
Venom’s servers sit in multiple data
centres which every site is provided
with Uninterruptible Power Supply
(UPS) systems and standby diesel
generators capable of supporting
the site indefinitely in the unlikely
event of a failure of grid-power. So
even if the national grid goes offline,
you don't.
AV Standard business level anti-virus Venom IT has many businesses and
users on our Cloud servers that have
access to premium level anti-virus
software. We use a different varia-
tion for web filtering, email and
servers. This enables a completely
secure environment for users.
Encryption Businesses very rarely have any
data encryption on premise. Only
larger enterprises usually have
some on site technology.
Venoms encryption of data is 2048
Bit encryption which is similar to
what grade of encryption the mili-
tary would use.