I’m just sitting here at my standing desk, buzzed from my third cup of coffee of the morning, and I keep coming back to that word — free. You know what is trite the word enemy. It’s used so easily these days, especially in cybersecurity. Free with your firewall rental, NOC service! Kind of a sweet deal, no? But, see, here’s the deal: free usually has a bad reputation (and, sure, sometimes it deserves it). At P J Networks, when we offer our Network Operations Center (NOC) service for FREE* with our firewall hire, we mean exactly what we say – true value in the form of professional time, superior tools, and proactive support – not some half-baked smoke-and-mirrors pitch.
When I began in ‘93 as a network admin, things were easier. Routers, switches, and a PSTN line cross-connecting voice/data via the mux. Then along came the Slammer worm — hello, square in the middle of it — and all of the sudden security was everyone’s business. I have made, and corrected plenty of mistakes! to realize that cybersecurity is not a matter of cutting corners or wholesale selling freebies just to land a client.
But here’s the catch — if free is worthless, it’s really nothing. But, if free is sold with a service so epic it actually shielding your business, halts attacks, averts downtime, and can even grow on contrary to the norm to increase performance — then, free isn’t good, honey, it’s golden. We feel that our free NOC does indeed fit nicely in that later camp.
Look, firewall rentals are not a new thing. But believe me, ours are not your run-of-the mill gathering dust in a closet boxes. We offer:
We’re talking about enterprise-grade tech that is both affordable and attainable – because security should never be a privilege, especially not in today’s threat environment.
Fine, I’ll pull back the curtain here. The NOC is not just about, hey, we’re just watching blinking lights on a dashboard, you know. It’s an entire ecosystem of:
Think about if you had a pit crew watching your car all the time, not just when you bring it into pitstop. That’s the NOC we provide.
Running a dedicated NOC? It’s expensive. Very expensive. Leveraging a 24/7 team given the right skills, tooling licenses, infrastructure and more — It can easily go into lakhs monthly for a mid-sized business.
Some of standalone NOC costs are as follows:
By providing a free NOC service with our firewalls for rent, we relieve India’s businesses of a heavy load. And it doesn’t cost you anything extra! These are premium add-ons available included in your rental — no hidden fees, no unpleasant surprises.
My harsh conclusion here is this — lots of people in our business see customers as dots on a screen. Bill, ship, repeat. Not us. We are in it for the long haul, when you join forces with P J Networks.
Why? Because security is the marathon that doesn’t end.
After the four-thieves’-market that was last year, we’ve recently helped three banks upgrade their zero-trust architecture — all the moving parts and complications India’s enterprises demand. And I have been relentless — relentless — in the face thereafter, and each time, the difference was continuous, proactive support.
We pay for your security because when Indian companies prosper, we do too. That free NOC is not a loss leader; it’s a strategic value added that creates trust, loyalty, and resilience.
And I just returned from DefCon — I’m buzzing from the hardware hacking village. If I learned anything from the community it’s that security isn’t just technology it’s also people, process, and passion. Our NOC embodies that philosophy.
Listen, this isn’t some marketing spiel! It’s based on over twenty years in the trenches. From the time of multiplexers through fending off claims of the AI age (I don’t believe, by the way) led security offerings, one thing is crystal: real security comes only from real, hands on, consistent, expert-led service.
That’s right cours reading this – free NOC coverage from P J Networks on the firewall you rent. - and peace of mind.
So when you think of free, think value. Real value. Not just marketing fluff.
P J Networks is here for you.