Today’s information security initiatives are highly involved processes driven by machine-generated data. The challenge: extracting meaningful and actionable insights from this data. Often, businesses invest large amounts of time and resources into data analysis when the reality is that the methods of consolidation and investigation can be much more efficient and far less expensive with the help of managed services.
Whether you are hosting a security information and event management (SIEM) tool for operational intelligence or vulnerability scanning tool for risk prioritization and alerting, allowing certified individuals to run these tools for your organization maximizes the added value to your security program. An immense amount of big data coming from a myriad of networks, applications, and devices can all be channeled into one dashboard, providing an increased understanding of traffic flow and visibility into network activity. Let’s review the benefits of managed services.
Cost Reduction
The process of hiring internal IT staff is expensive and time-consuming. After training these individuals in the ways of your software solutions, they still may not fulfill desired needs. This is where hiring third-party professionals can limit expenses. Outsourcing IT and security responsibilities to already qualified personnel decreases downtime.
Expertise
Managed security service providers (MSSPs) are familiar with the latest industry threats, trends, and solutions. Certified and experienced individuals understand current security challenges and can help remediate infrastructure complications as they happen.
Efficiency
This ties directly into the previous point: attempting to understand all of the new security snags can be extremely challenging for staff that don't have a strict security focus. Let the pros handle complexities and allow the integrated solution to satisfy your security needs.
Compliance
Being compliant is an inherent benefit of hiring an MSSP. Communicating to them exactly what you hope to see in the project deliverables allows them to carry out initiatives with a baseline objective. This way, you're never forced to cram for an audit or mandated assessment, you're immediately more credible with data security, and you've met obligatory standards.
Knowledge
While you locked the front door, hackers set up an entry in the back and are slowly pulling sensitive data, which looks just like a regular traffic flow. Get the security you require, and even better, understand the process. Knowledge transfer to in-house staff is the final step of a managed service engagement, which provides a deeper understanding to everyone involved.
Partnership
MSSPs are poised to serve as your trusted advisor. There are no ulterior motives when it comes to the security of your environment, and the expertise is invaluable. Reliability is something you get when you hire an MSSP.
Let the experts handle your security solutions so you can focus on core business objectives.
