Managed Security is a service
that lets businesses offload security management responsibilities to a
dedicated Security Operations Center that typically uses proactive threat detection
and containment to protect the data assets and networks monitored. A Managed
Security Service Provider (MSSP) remotely manages the security status, risk
exposure and vulnerabilities on the client’s IT infrastructure, end-user
systems and other managed assets on a subscription model. The self-sustaining,
laboratory-like operation unit allows organizations outsource the challenges in
performing uninterrupted processes in securing their enterprise.
The service is often preferred by
organizations that do not have the requisite technical expertise in their
in-house IT team and would rather have a full-fledged team of experts
coordinating all tasks pertaining to their security implements on a
centralized, integrated platform. MSSPs are sought after for their combined
benefits of battle-tested expertise in process efficiency and the optimized
access to industry-leading security solutions they facilitate.
Their topmost objectives are
threat visibility, improving defenses as well as security awareness while reducing
costs and helping clients realize maximum value out of security solutions.
Since the ultimate goal of Managed Security is Incident Response, i.e.
detecting and eliminating security incidents, MSSPs direct their teams to carry
out deployment, behavioral analysis, baseline establishment and progressive
hardening of the environment to reduce or eliminate the impact of anomalies.
MSSPs – the Security Operations Team and its purpose
Managed Security Providers can
work with you as custodians of optimal compliance standards for your
information systems, sensitive data and operations. Vulnerability Management
focuses on identifying and resolving threats so as to eliminate risks of
exposure to compromise of user data privacy and intellectual property theft. Most
MSSPs regard their security goals through the compliance perspective and guide
the streamlining of compliance reporting, remediation and audit-readiness by
continuously managing adjustments in all security controls deployed.
The team is typically comprised
of dynamic teams of analysts and compliance consultants who channel all tasks
and summarize all events with the ultimate goal of improving security awareness
among executive teams, administrators, key stakeholders and decision-making
staff within the enterprise. The idea is to constantly vitalize resilience and
calculative spending as the enterprise progresses across technologies,
collaborations and modernization initiatives.
Be it in assessing risk
tolerance, asset criticality or analyzing gaps in the existing policy
framework, a Security Operations Center (SOC) can bring into perspective the
priority, context, scope and direction for every security risk management
initiative. A Security Operations Center takes charge of reinforcing your
defenses by instantly identifying latent vulnerabilities in your endpoints,
perilous user behavior, and poorly guarded data assets. Threat Analytics
capabilities are used to detect malicious entities and intent in your
environment through an inventory of all your assets, active services and
communications.
Deployment and Optimization of advanced security controls
Manufacturers of Malware and
Ransomware are beefing up their weapons with functionality that can defeat and
deceive conventional signature-based firewall and antivirus software. What the
situation warrants is an Intrusion Detection System that has proven
capabilities in tracking down multi-vector attacks. CIOs today acknowledge the
unparalleled benefits of a threat management system that handles both
anomaly-based detection and signature-based response with constantly advancing
correlation directives.
That brings us to Security
Information and Event Management – unarguably the pinnacle of every responsive,
continuous threat management platform. An SIEM tool that has not been
acclimatized and optimized to deal with evolving attacks can end up on the
shelf. It pays to thoroughly validate not only the purported features of a
vendor’s solution, but also verify that it works best for your environment.
Security Information and Event
Management is an important component of a powerful Managed Security Service and
it is instrumental in achieving pervasive threat visibility across the
enterprise. This is achieved through services such as Log Management, Raw Log
Analysis, Event Correlation and Log Retention.
A Managed Security Service
Provider knows the best-of-breed products in and out, which means their
guidance can help you make an informed decision to invest only in what you
actually need. An MSSP can provide objective advice on solutions that will
solve specific problems and deploy them systematically after a detailed study
of the system design strategies and network architecture.
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