{"id":4194,"date":"2019-06-20T05:30:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T05:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/209.235.70.100\/?p=4194"},"modified":"2020-01-04T05:31:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T05:31:41","slug":"managed-security-the-expanded-frontier-for-msps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.navisite.com\/blog\/managed-security-the-expanded-frontier-for-msps\/","title":{"rendered":"Managed Security – The Expanded Frontier for MSPs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The cybersecurity landscape today reflects over 1,200 vendors across the 17 major categories, often with overlapping value propositions addressing very specific aspects of a broad and dynamic threat landscape. Navigating this requires tremendous effort and expertise, something that is often a tall order for most mid-market and smaller enterprise organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key IT stakeholders in these companies already have a full plate driving a broader digital transformation mandate. Increased compliance obligations and dynamic threat vectors make security a non-negotiable obligation to an already growing list of demands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The choices facing most organizations can be distilled into three broad categories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Do-It-Yourself (DIY):<\/strong> Evaluate, assemble, integrate and manage the right set of vendors across key security domains including identity management, monitoring, managed detection and response (MDR), business email protection, data protection ; beyond the vendor selection, investing in improving correlation to reduce false positives and building the necessary expertise on the remediation front becomes equally key.<\/li>
  2. Engage Security Experts<\/strong>: Engage a managed security services provider (MSSP) that brings in the tools and expertise to assist with threat monitoring and detection, augmenting existing capabilities and processes; organizations still need to bring the necessary expertise around remediation, or coordinate this activity with the managed service provider (MSP) responsible for the underlying IT infrastructure.<\/li>
  3. Leverage ‘One-stop’ Service Provider<\/strong>: Engage a MSP that can both manage their hybrid cloud infrastructure and<\/strong> bring in the necessary security expertise, thereby collapsing the value propositions of MSP and MSSP into one; this also provides the added advantage of compressing the incident lifecycle across detection, response, and remediation by having all of these activities be performed under one-roof.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    The ‘one-stop’ service provider model has the potential of solving the most pressing challenges faced by most organizations including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n