The advantages of having a 100% managed security service

In response to this context, a series of new products grouped under the term Managed Security Services are emerging in the cybersecurity market. These group common services in this field (antivirus programs, firewalls, intrusion detection, updates, security auditing, content filtering, etc.), but adopting a new approach to the company's security needs, on the basis of which said services pass to be managed by a third party that assumes responsibility for them to remain operational and monitored at all times.

A study conducted at the beginning of last year in the US, United Kingdom, Canada and Germany showed that 74% of organizations continued to manage their security systems, but that 82% of IT professionals worked or planned to work in the future with Managed security service providers.

Advantages of managed security services
Managed security service providers help mitigate the risks that security management entails, and resorting to them carries a clear set of advantages:

The first and most obvious is the cost one: using a managed security service usually saves costs compared to the option of an organization investing in its own personnel, software and hardware.

It offers advantages in terms of personnel management and talent acquisition: there is a relative shortage of specialized cybersecurity personnel, which generates great pressure on IT departments to retain staff with sufficient qualification. Having a truly solvent team to face the challenges of the company may be prohibitive for some of them, but feasible for managed security service providers. Outsourcing this function allows you to concentrate internal resources on more critical aspects for the business.

They allow you to keep security systems up and running 24 hours a day and 365 days a year, which many companies can only guarantee during normal business hours.

We can see advantages in terms of the efficiency granted by the scale at which the providers of managed security systems work: it is difficult for an organization to keep track of all the new threats and potential vulnerabilities that arise, as well as update their good practices and safety tools, while the suppliers are in contact with international experts that reinforce their know-how and their ability to react. In addition, many of them have had the opportunity to work side by side with law enforcement is useful when conducting forensic analysis useful in judicial proceedings.

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