Ward’s Hogan, like O’Connor, felt that more Irish businesses will think about placing their trust in a third party when it comes to security. We are also likely to see more services offered by MSSPs he said such as “managed endpoints (for endpoints internal to an organisation), managed mobile devices, and further use of managed vulnerability assessments and scanning services.”
As-a-service
For Moore the next 18 months represents a period where he believes the industry will “certainly” see a rise in a- a-service offerings. Firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS) for one will turn some heads he believes providing Irish businesses with a “cloud-managed unified threat management system and real-time security intelligence to help combat the growing volumes of security breaches”.
Organisations often take a piecemeal approach to security rather than treating it in a holistic and strategic manner. They are reactive rather than proactive which leaves them in a very vulnerable place when dealing with growing volumes of cyber threats, Karen O’Connor, Datapac
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Elsewhere, Trilogy’s Paddon said service providers will start to offer “more mature configuration and access monitoring and management services” that detect security breaches based on required standards and rules. “The approach is to design the security tools, software, settings and configurations based on the required business standards and then to ensure that these are not being breached,” he said.
“Collecting and maintaining the data generated from this monitoring and archiving it securely as a service is becoming popular as well as it removes a lot of overhead costs and resources,” added Paddon.
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