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As more and more companies look to outsourced solutions for their security needs, it’s important to be discerning about which ones you choose. They’re not all created equal, although many are useful. Let’s go over a popular option, MSSPs, and dive into what they do and don’t do, along with some alternatives, so that you can make your best choice.
The definition of “managed security service provider” (MSSP) is pretty straightforward. An MSSP is a third party that helps companies monitor and manage their security environments.
So how do they do it? They use high-availability security operations centers (SOCs). The SOC is the team responsible for monitoring a business’s environment for and responding to cyber threats.
MSSP SOCs can offload your teams’ work, reducing the number of ops folks and other experts you need to train, and give you round-the-clock coverage with experts of their own. Or, they can help you build out and bolster your own security resources.
Now that we’ve got the basics on MSSPs, let’s get into their services. MSSPs can provide:
As TechTarget states, “MSSPs can also provide security recommendations and some level of continuous security, and they can develop policies to help protect a company’s infrastructure.” In addition, outsourcing these services is a cost-effective way to manage an ever-growing number of security threats, and saves you money on software, training, and an in-house team.
MSSPs do have their limitations. While there are obvious benefits to an outsourced SOC, that coverage comes at a price. MSSPs, unfortunately, do not:
If these capabilities are important to you, you may want to look for an alternative option.
There are several security outsourcing options besides an MSSP, and many will provide you with more scope and greater actionability across your network. One of those options is a managed detection and response (MDR) solution.
MDR includes “threat intelligence, threat hunting, security monitoring, incident analysis, and incident response.” Here are some key differences between MDR vs. MSSP:
While MDR provides more functionality than an MSSP, even MDR has its limitations. It might be more responsive than your general MSSPs, but it still is not agile enough for a shifting network environment that needs to find threats across multiple platforms, solutions, applications, and vendors, and many still suffer from a restrictive toolset. So, if MDR is better, what’s best?
The ReliaQuest GreyMatter security operations platform is built on an Open XDR architecture, which means it can go further and deeper than other managed service responders. What sets GreyMatter apart?
ReliaQuest, using its GreyMatter platform paired with in-house security expertise, fills in the gaps MSSP and MDR leave behind. With ReliaQuest, you can have the staff-saving efficiency of an MSSP SOC with the platform-agnostic capabilities that can work across all your existing tooling.
Combine technologies – SIEM, EDR, multi-cloud, third-party apps – for transparency, centralized visibility, and faster response environment-wide. If your organization plans to scale at the current rate of change, you need a security solution that’s powerful – and agile – enough to keep up.