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| “Security is about covering all the bases; a defender needs to manage all vulnerabilities, whilst an attacker needs to exploit only one” |  BCC Risk Advisory: Eoin Keary, CTO |
| A number of factors are driving the need for managed security services (MSS), namely expertise, cost and consistency. Key concerns when considering an MSS should be included as detailed below.Cost: The associated cost benefits of using some MSS providers may appear a very attractive proposition. MSS provides the ability for a company to have deep security expertise without the associated cost of full time employees. For example our edgescan service gives our clients access to our security engineering team whom manage the security posture of their assets. A managed service should give you the ability to reduce your capital expenditure and control your security-spend without sacrificing quality.
Using an MSS, you can maintain your security posture but reduce overall cost of ownership. Accuracy: Security is about covering all the bases; a defender needs to manage all vulnerabilities, whilst an attacker needs to exploit only one (vulnerability). Accuracy covers two aspects of MSS. Firstly the ability to detect and manage discovered vulnerabilities with confidence and secondly to reduce the time required by the business to patch, fix or configure due to the quality of the vulnerability information delivered via the MSS provider. MSS can also assist you in reallocating existing resources to other security areas, or the need to engage deeper or broader expertise than is available in-house. Your MSS should address requirements where you do not have in-house expertise. The edgescan service provides continuous vulnerability assessment coupled with a customised reporting portal and APIs set to help you understand what vulnerabilities your business faces. It assesses the security of both web/mobile applications and associated servers, or indeed any deployed systems, giving you “full-stack” vulnerability management.
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| “You cannot manage for improvement if you do not measure and chart the performance for better or worse” |  Zinopy Ltd: John Ryan, CEO |
| “There are two types of companies: those who have been hacked and those who don’t yet know they have been hacked,” John Chambers, CiscoThis raises a number of questions for IT departments and beyond as cyber security rapidly evolves from a niche IT issue to a consumer and boardroom priority.
So how can businesses like yours safeguard intellectual property, customer data and most importantly your brand, when you are exposed to more attacks, from increasingly sophisticated attackers? And then there is the biggest question of all: how do you know? In short, you cannot manage what you do not measure. You cannot manage for improvement if you do not measure and chart the performance for better or worse. But you can use a Zinopy Managed Security Service to provide the metrics, monitoring and management to address the security, compliance and risk analysis requirements of your organisation. Zinopy has the in-house skills and employs world-class toolsets to deliver features including log management, advanced correlation and threat management, forensic analysis, audit readiness, enhanced reporting, full range of dashboards from operation to management. The benefits are manifold:
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| “The risk to a business’ data and its customer’s information is often all too great not to implement a managed security service” |  Symantec: Darragh Fegan |
| The key concern for an organisation when considering a Managed Security Service is ensuring they are significantly increasing their security posture by implementing a high-performance, comprehensive security infrastructure that is resilient, trustworthy and cost effective.At Symantec, we help our customers by removing the need to manage the increased complexity and scale of cyber threats. This allows organisations to eliminate the worry of whether they have the adequate level of in-house security expertise and experience to identify and manage the new sophisticated threats that we see today.
One of the obstacles Symantec comes across, is the customer concerns over ‘letting go’. However, as CSO’s and IT managers face the day-to-day reality of combating the relentless battle against these threats they are increasingly turning to Symantec to assist them. The risk to a business’ data and its customer’s information is often all too great not to implement a managed security service. The costs associated with building and maintaining an in-house cyber defence are great. For that reason, organisations around the world look to our Managed Security Services to build and sustain a resilient incident management program for them. Our managed security services offers a global presence and scale to satisfy the largest of enterprises. Every month, we analyse over 275 billion log entries, alongside identifying more than 40,000 potential security events and escalate over 4,000 validated, severe events. We offer a cost effective solution that allows customers to leverage security analysts and professionals to secure their business, and more importantly provide organisations with the visibility and monitoring across their IT estates. Symantec Managed Security Services allows organisations to put focus back into other critical aspects of their business while we protect their valuable and critical assets.
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