oftware monitors their networks for unusual amounts or types of traffic and downloads software patches for protection against new types of attacks. Firewalls as a Service-FaaS Instead of supporting on-site firewalls, organizations have the option of using a cloud provider's firewall service. For example, a multisite enterprise may choose to contract for Firewall as a Service rather than installing and maintaining a firewall at each of their branch offices and warehouses. In these instances a service provider's staff maintains the firewall and keeps it updated to protect from new viruses and new security threats. www.TechnicalPDF.com All traffic flows through the cloud provider's firewall rather than through onsite firewalls. Because of their greater capacity, FaaS may be better able to protect organizations from Distributed Denial of Service attacks because of their firewalls' greater capacities and speed than many customers' onsite firewalls. Safeguarding Privacy and Intellectual Property by Employing Property Data Loss Management Organizations are legally obligated to protect the privacy of their employees. There are privacy statutes that prohibit enterprises from sharing employee and customer personal information such as Social Security numbers, license numbers, credit card data, and data collected by human resources. In addition, companies need to protect their strategic plans, medicine formularies, and product designs from leaking. These assets are considered intellectual property. To accomplish these goals, organizations use property data loss management software to scan outgoing e-mail. The software is programmed to flag specific words relating to their products or services as well as key phrases or formats which indicate that credit card data, social security numbers, or license numbers are included in a message. Flagged messages can be manually scrutinized. To protect privacy, enterprises and universities may have policies limiting which computers store private information such as social security numbers