For professional firms seeking total cyber security, regulatory compliance and customer confidence, managed security services tick all the boxes. Outsourcing managed security services to a professional managed security services provider (MSSP) like Intellesec can ultimately protect your business from cyber attacks and the associated dent to your reputation and bottom line. Here are five more benefits of managed security services.
Benefits of managed security services
There are many benefits of managed security services. Here are five of the top reasons to partner with a trusted MSSP, like Intellesec.
1. Expand your team for less
Rather than thinking of an MSSP as another cost, think of the money it could actually save your business. How much do you imagine it would cost to source, buy and manage a full stack of security technologies? A lot more than outsourcing, we can guarantee you that. A good MSSP can become an extension of your IT security team, providing a high degree of threat intelligence, endpoint protection and remediation solutions. All of which simply wouldn’t be achievable in-house. Not affordably or with such immediacy at any rate.
2. Upskill your existing team
Just under a quarter of all breaches (24%) are caused by human error. Security awareness training can mitigate this threat and upskill your team, reducing the likelihood of employees falling for phishing attacks by as much as 70%. For the average over-stretched IT department, time, resources and specialist knowledge are often barriers to delivering training internally. This is where an MSSP can do all the heavy lifting for you, providing automated phishing simulations and detailed reports to make your staff your greatest security assets.
3. Achieve total compliance
Most industries, particularly the professional services, are heavy regulated. A highly-qualified MSSP can help you to meet your data and information governance obligations. Easier said than done for those aforementioned time-poor IT departments whose hands are full with the day-to-day management of your networks to keep abreast of the constantly evolving regulatory landscape and the necessary security solutions available. An MSSP will have full sight of both and can therefore provide the expertise your company needs.
4. Automated vulnerability management
Do you know your company’s cyber security weaknesses? With hastily arranged remote working setups and BYOD practices commonplace amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, chances are your IT department may not even know the full extent of your business’ blind spots – a topic you can read about in more detail here. An MSSP can offer automated vulnerability scanning across your IT infrastructure to identify weak points and offer solutions by way of recommended patches, configuration changes and strategic improvements.
5. Protect your endpoints and data
An endpoint is any device that is physically the end point of a network, such as desktops, laptops, mobile phones and servers. The more endpoints you have, the greater your risk of a breach. It bears repeating that in the current climate keeping on top of all your disparate endpoints is a challenge. This is where an MSSP can give you an edge. Endpoint protection software delivers sophisticated visibility and threat hunting, while credential theft monitoring can alert you as soon as your credentials appear on the dark web.
Intellesec offers all these services and more. Eliminate the hassle of managing your own IT security with managed security services from Intellesec – cyber security simplified.
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For more information about our managed security services, or to discuss your cyber security requirements in more detail, please contact Intellesec today on 0116 3266123 or email hello@intellesec.co.uk.
