"The market is too distracted and end users spread too thin to replace a system that already works well enough. The companies are just now entering into discussions with several financial services companies and plan to extend the service to the manufacturing industry, said Hyperon CEO Jim Molini.Īlthough physical and IT security will eventually merge, "now is not the time," said Steve Hunt, a security analyst at Cambridge, Mass.-based Giga Information Group Inc. "This is an expansion of the brand name and a logical extension that gets us into the high-tech market."īrinks and Hyperon plan to issue a "Protected by Brinks" logo for use by e-commerce sites as a sign of assurance, said Allen. "Brinks is not known as a high-tech company," said Bob Allen, chief operating officer at Brink's Home Security. One of the challenges for Brinks will be looking at security as a strategic business enabler and not strictly as a protective barrier, he said. Some monitoring will also take place at Brinks' operations center in Irving, where 120 Brinks agents monitor the homes and businesses of 700,000 Brinks clients.īrinks' entry into the network security market makes it clear that "the assets that make up a company's value are changing," said Russ Gates, global managing director of technology risk consulting at Arthur Andersen LLP in Chicago.
It places an intrusion detection system on a customer's network that is monitored remotely through a central monitoring facility.įifteen Brinks agents have been deployed to the new Brinks Internet Security venture, which is co-located with Hyperon in Wilmington, Del.
Hyperon is a consulting and outsourcing firm that specializes in intrusion detection and incident handling. *Services include basic alarms through full responseīetween Brinks Home Security and Hyperon is called, marks the first time a traditional brick-and-mortar security firm like Brinks has entered the Internet security market, although Pinkerton has a network security consulting unit. *Monthly charges range from $2,000 to $7,500, depending on level of service *Combines Brinks’ real-time monitoring and response capabilities with Hyperon’s intrusion-detection systems
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