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Even companies with 250-pound workers who could easily tackle the average hacker need IT to defend against security breaches.

The IT unit for the Houston Texans, an NFL expansion team, tapped technology from AlterPoint to maintain the configurations of the organization's 40 routers and quickly detect if one's been hacked.

Network administrators used to spend up to five hours a day configuring and monitoring the devices. Seems like AlterPoint was a good draft pick.