Category Archives: Managed Security Services (MSS)

The cybersecurity skills gap contributed to a $1.76 million increase in average breach costs

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Understaffing in cybersecurity — the “skills gap” — is driving up the cost of data breaches in recent years, according to a decade of reports by IBM. The 2024 IBM Data Breach Report found that more than half of breached organizations experienced severe security staffing shortages, a 26.2% increase from the previous year. They found […]

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What Should Customers Ask Managed Service Providers?

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Managed service providers (MSPs), sometimes called managed security services (MSS) or MSSP, play a very important role in protecting data and other digital assets and will continue to do so. Some of the benefits include, but are not limited to: Mostly predictable costs, including less burden on capital expenditure, and pay-as-you-go models Dedicated and informed […]

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Identity Management Beyond the Acronyms: Which Is Best for You?

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With so many devices and users accessing networks, applications and data, identity access management (IAM) has become a cornerstone of cybersecurity best practices. The short explanation is that you must make sure everyone (and everything) is who they claim they are. You also need to make sure they are allowed to have the access they’re requesting. […]

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Building Blocks: How to Create a Privileged Access Management (PAM) Strategy

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Privileged access management (PAM) has long been central to a good enterprise cybersecurity strategy. However, its nature is changing. The pace of digital change is speeding up and reliance on the cloud increasing. So, businesses and agencies must develop new PAM strategies to keep up. Processes and tools that could support yesterday’s on-premises IT rarely […]

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Accelerate Your Journey to AWS with IBM Security

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Security continues to be one of the top concerns for 90 percent of our clients adopting cloud. It’s further intensified with 75 percent of the clients embracing a multicloud deployment model. Cloud introduces a decentralized model that makes managing policies and keeping up with changing regulatory mandates challenging. In addition, cloud introduces additional risks, misconfigurations […]

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Reaching Strategic Outcomes With an MDR Service Provider: Part 5

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This is the fifth in a five-part blog series on managed detection and response (MDR) as it drives strategic security outcomes for businesses. Now that you’ve reached part five of this series, you’ve seen how MDR services help organizations. They can help achieve their goals through the context of four key strategic outcomes. You’re familiar […]

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Is a Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) Right for Your Organization?

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Leveraging a managed security services provider can help reduce risk and improve incident response. But when should companies make the call?

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COVID-19’s Remote Workforce: Protect Your Rapidly Growing Attack Surface

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With elevated endpoint risk and the need to respond rapidly to cybersecurity incidents, a managed detection and response (MDR) team can deploy quickly to virtually supplement your security teams.

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In 2020, IoT Security Must Be Part of Your Threat Management Strategy

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From a threat management perspective, there is no logic in securing IT equipment while ignoring the IoT devices active in the same environment. Organizations must consider IoT devices as well.

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5 Must-Haves for Your Next Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP)

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With a modern managed security services provider (MSSP), organizations can gain the specialized skills needed to cost-effectively protect against the increasing range, volume and severity of threats.

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