Delivering Secure Solutions
That accelerate IT performance in a cyber age...
WHO WE ARE
Securus Communications is a trusted managed network provider, offering next-generation infrastructure and bespoke, value added services.
Our technical expertise is matched by our dedication to deliver the highest quality solutions and support services to any size of business, across all sectors.
Securus provides flexible, infrastructure solutions specialising in private and public cloud infrastructure, access technologies, hosting and IT security.
As an independent provider, Securus are able to provide unprecedented quality of service and solutions because we have our own data centres and core network, as well as a highly-accredited technical helpdesk.
We pride ourselves on creating long-term partnerships with our customers and we make it our priority to offer bespoke network services that represent excellent value for money, backed by exceptional levels of support.
SOLUTIONS
Securus offers a comprehensive portfolio of network services and solutions, delivered over a robust hyperscale network.
We have our own 10GB core network and have connected all Tier One carriers, and many Tier Two carriers, to offer an unrivalled reach and access options. We are an ISP and members of the London Internet Exchange (LINX).
CONNECTIVITY
Robust connectivity is essential to maximise your technology investment. Whether you have a multi-site organisation or want to improve your network’s speed and reliability.
SECURITY
There’s a growing shift in IT as organisations are realising that data is their most valuable asset. Securus provides end-to-end security solutions to help maintain IT integrity.
SECURUS VOICE
Securus provide an extensive range of telephony solutions ranging from the provision of telephony hardware and fixed call packages, to cloud-based, multi-site PBX solutions.
INFRASTRUCTURE
To stay ahead of the competition, you need a flexible and scalable IT infrastructure which can support your business-critical applications and processes.
CORE NETWORK
Today’s customers expect visibility, control and exceptional service from their managed service provider.
CYBER SECURITY
Cyber-crime is not only on the rise but is becoming increasingly more sophisticated. It’s critical to keep your valuable business data secure.
HOSTING
Securus provides a wide range of hosting services, helping you perform the essential tasks that you can’t - or prefer not to - in order to get the most value out of your IT investment.
Co-LOCATION
Securus provides flexible co-location solutions from our five data centres, ranging from complete suites, servers and cages to single rack as well as half and quarter racks.
"Securus have given us speed, resilience and excellent customer service. They are very responsive and proactive."
- Stephen Bowkett, Financial Director for Bristol Honda
CONSULTANCY-LED APPROACH
At Securus we believe passionately in engaging with you to understand your challenges, and working with you to design solutions to overcome them.
We can help you find clever ways to utilise your connectivity to achieve better value-for-money or change a user experience, or design a complex wide-area network to meet your business goals, however difficult it may seem. Our experienced team will help you rationalise, consolidate and standardise your IT infrastructure to meet business demand, now and in the future. You’ll benefit from the experiences of industry veterans to ensure you won’t learn the hard way. This is how we build long-term relationships with our clients: they trust us to get the job done: On budget, first time, every time.
“In the modern world, business clients look at hotels as an extended work place. To deliver that experience, you must have first-class Wifi and large amounts of internet access. Securus delivered this for us: the service has been above and beyond anything we’d hoped for and I can’t recommend them highly enough.”
- Head of IT for 30 Site Hotel Chain
FROM OUR BLOG
Sharing our thoughts and vision. Here you can read insights from our industry and find out what makes us who we are.
In The News – Securus Speaks To The Business Post
At Securus, we like to think we know a thing or two about SD-WAN (Software Defined Wide Area Networking). After all, the Securus SD-WAN Platform incorporates both reliability and security that is vital to your business success. Our partnership with SD-WAN specialist Masergy allows us to deliver a highly secure, managed SD-WAN solution where security … Read More
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10 Benefits of SASE Explained
Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is a network architecture that merges security with Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) to create a single, unified cloud service. The benefits of SASE include simplified WAN deployment, increased security, and appropriate bandwidth allocation on a per-application basis. Because it’s a cloud service, SASE is scalable by design, making it … Read More
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What is SASE? Architecture Overview
Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is a network architecture that combines security with Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) to create a single cloud service. It offers simplified WAN deployment, improved security, efficiency, and executes appropriate bandwidth per application. Because it’s a cloud service, SASE is scalable and billed based on customer usage, making it a … Read More
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Benefits of SD-WAN for Small Businesses
Many small businesses are migrating to cloud-based applications for real-time business application usage in the office, the storefront and also online. The numerous benefits of SD-WAN for small businesses such as increased bandwidth, lower latency, and aggregated link usage can quickly enhance existing WAN services. Changing times have led to a sudden increase in virtual collaboration using … Read More
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Benefits Of SD-WAN For Accountancy Firms
Like many sectors, accountancy has embraced cloud-based applications to increase efficiency and reduce cost. As these services place additional strain on existing WAN services, a solution is required. The numerous benefits of SD-WAN for accountancy firms can address this, with increased bandwidth, lower latency, and reduced cost being just the tip of the iceberg. Software such as … Read More
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Secure SD-WAN Service With AI Control
In today’s challenging digital landscape, you should expect more than high performance and agility from your wide area network solution. A secure SD-WAN service is paramount as optimised security combined with granular control of your entire estate is now more essential than ever. According to the IBM 2018 Data Breach Study, the average time it … Read More
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Endpoint Security Explained
With the explosion of remote and home workers at 49.2% in the UK (source), the number of endpoint devices accessing data on the corporate network is now greater than ever. Security implications increase exponentially with multiple devices requiring access to sensitive corporate data. According to the IBM 2018 Data Breach Study, the average time a … Read More
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Securing Microsoft Office 365 Business
With over 180 million monthly active users, many organisations have already embraced Microsoft Office 365 Business to fulfil their cloud-based application needs. Your organisation’s data is critical to its success, which is why fortifying your network’s security is so vital. As with all technology services, particularly cloud-based, Microsoft Office 365 security is an area that requires closer … Read More
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Microsoft Office 365 Data Backup And Restore
3rd party Microsoft Office 365 data backup and restore services are becoming more and more in demand. Microsoft operates Office 365 under a shared responsibility model; meaning that although they maintain platform availability, preventing actual data loss is the sole responsibility of the user. Over 50% of organisations rely on Office 365; however, 92% of … Read More
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Choosing The Right Cloud Platform For Remote Working
The recent pandemic of COVID19 has raised several business challenges surrounding remote workers accessing secure cloud computing services. Working from home has swiftly become the ‘new normal’, and many industry experts will be unlikely to change. Choosing the right cloud platform is vital to ensure seamless integration with remote working technologies and your overall network … Read More
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COVID-19 Remote Worker Enablement
Unfortunately, Covid19 has impacted all of us, whether it’s with contracting the virus, or by the measures taken to slow the infection. Businesses and the public, in general, were not prepared for it, which hit us harder than foreseen. The government has done an outstanding job considering what they had to deal with, but there’s … Read More
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The Evolution Of Remote Working
Due to the global reach of the COVID-19 pandemic, companies scrambled to fortify their IT infrastructures so that their workforce could work from home. The evolution of remote working is in full swing, although Securus has been remote working since 2012, and helping our customers do the same. Entire teams are now finding themselves working … Read More
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12 Key SD-WAN Features To Use Right Now
There are a number of key SD-WAN features evolving, each more efficient and secure than the last one. Increased efficiencies make the lives of IT teams easier. However, many of these automated features go untapped. In some instances, the vendor falls short when it comes to educating IT executives as to the full functionality of … Read More
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Best Fortinet Firewalls for SD-WAN
Cybersecurity has been a long time business concern for enterprise organisations. As branch sites migrate towards an SD-WAN model, standard firewall hardware seems no longer the optimum choice. A number of vendors however; have begun fully integrating both SD-WAN functionality and next-generation firewall security in one box. Fortinet being one of them offers full-SD-WAN features … Read More
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What Is Wi-Fi 6 802.11ax?
With every new Wi-Fi standard, you see welcome improvements over the previous version in terms of performance. Though, it seems that each one doesn’t quite fully solve the problem of speed. This is mostly because the technology simply can’t keep up with the always-increasing demand. Today we will discuss what is Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) and … Read More
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COVID-19: Why Increase IT Spending Right Now?
Your business might be in crisis mode but the crisis will end. What you do now can make a huge difference in how well your business fares when the recovery comes. As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads fear and chaos around the world many businesses have been forced to slow down. Some have even closed their … Read More
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What is Network as a Service (NaaS)?
NaaS Overview Potential clients have been asking for more information on Network as a Service (NaaS) and what we have on offer. The NaaS model allows your business to offload the day-to-day burden of running the network. You can instead re-focus on your business, whilst safe in the knowledge that your networking infrastructure is in … Read More
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What is Hybrid SD-WAN?
In today’s increasingly competitive marketplace, network managers are under pressure to achieve cost savings in every corner of their network platform. Depending on the provider, pure MPLS can become cost prohibitive, especially if most of the traffic is destined for a cloud based service over the public Internet. The alternative is SD-WAN, however increased latency, … Read More
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Understanding VoIP as a Service
Many businesses have already migrated to a VoIP as a Service (VaaS) solution due to the cost savings, reliability, simplification and flexibility involved. This article discusses understanding VoIP as a Service in general, it’s benefits, various components and available design choices. This will allow you to make a more informed decision for the future telephony … Read More
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8 Benefits of Security As A Service (SECaaS)
Many businesses are unknowingly wide open to attack and should consider the benefits of Security as a Service (SECaaS). Investing is a firewall, anti-virus, physical office security, intruder alarm, and CCTV may not be enough. Alas in today’s ever changing digital world this is not enough to keep modern cyber criminals at bay. Malware, ransomware, … Read More
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Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Guide
Most of those working in the technology sector have at least a basic understanding of the Internet of Things (IoT). Recognition for the term Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is growing, although the definition itself is still evolving as digitization becomes a priority in every industry. IIoT is the manufacturing industry reference of The Internet … Read More
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Edge and Fog Computing:Overview and Benefits
Cloud computing has one main Achilles heel in the form of increased latency. In most cases, the cloud platform is not physically located near the data source, thus data transfer takes additional time. This can become highly problematic for the overall performance of latency-sensitive applications and services. The benefits of edge and fog computing are … Read More
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Benefits of SD-WAN for Manufacturing
Manufacturing companies have long led the charge on wide-area networking. Every industry must have real-time sharing of information, although manufacturing has a unique need to ensure connectivity across operations as well as locations, suppliers, and partners. Because manufacturing must always push towards efficiency across all its processes, it cannot overlook IT operations and WAN connectivity. … Read More
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10 Benefits of SD-WAN for Retail
Will Retail Embrace SD-WAN? The many benefits of SD-WAN have allowed this technology to become the darling of the wide area networking arena. SD-WAN for Retail is the obvious move forward. Why wouldn’t businesses want reduced cost and increased performance from their WAN suppliers? At no other time is history has retail needed technology to … Read More
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IaaS vs PaaS vs SaaS Review
Cloud Computing This IaaS vs PaaS vs SaaS review will not only discuss the differences between these three main cloud based models, but will also cover the overall benefits of cloud services in general. Cloud computing enables the shift of your business data and compute power to hosted servers and applications located in one or … Read More
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Edge Computing Benefits
Introduction Unless you have been residing on a remote desert island for the past decade, the rise in popularity of cloud computing cannot have gone unnoticed. Having your data reside in the cloud where data, applications and compute power are all conveniently centralised has multiple benefits such as data sharing, centralised compute and cost efficiency. … Read More
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SD-WAN
SD-WAN Overview More and more customers are coming to us asking about SD-WAN and seeking our help to both understand it better, and assess if their environment is ready for it. What SD-WAN enables you to do is, in detail, specify policies for paths and priority for certain traffic types, applications etc, and easily roll … Read More
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