Managed Security Benefits
Explore the benefits users and organizations realize through the adoption and implementation of Managed Security. Includes financial impact, organizational benefits and much more.
| Growth and Sustainability of Managed Security Services Networks: An Economic Perspective |
| Multiple benefits that individual firms can derive by using MSSPs: - Cost savings: cost of managed security service is usually lower than hiring in-house full-time experts. MSSPs are able to spread their investment in infrastructure and people across several clients. - Staffing: shortage of qualified security personnel puts big pressure on companies to recruit, train and retain their security staff. - Skills and security awareness: MSSPs have better insight into evolving security threats directly and indirectly because of their focus and wider install base. - MSSPs can provide objectivity, independence, liability protection, dedicated facilities, and round-the-clock service. |
| Alok Gupta and Dmitry Zhdanov, Department of Information and Decision Sciences, University of Minnesota |
| Network-based Security Services: The Right Approach at the Right Time |
| As part of an in-depth look at Managed Security Services, this analyst report analyzes the ten benefits of MSS. Highly recommended. From the Resource, ten reasons why enterprises select a network-based approach for security: - Resource Pooling - In a network-based approach, the service provider combines multiple components to offer security services in a unified service delivery environment. - Resiliency and Responsiveness - ... around-the-clock assessment of threat activities and their relevance to known vulnerabilities supplemented with a current inventory of security technologies and their configurations is critical to protecting the enterprise's network, applications, and information as strategic assets. - Reserve Network Bandwidth for Legitimate Business Use - With the security environment residing in the CSP's network, threatening (e.g., virus, malware, and denial of service attacks) and unwanted (e.g., email-borne spam) traffic can be filtered out before traversing through the access link between the CSP's network and its enterprise subscribers' business locations. - Mobile Friendly - Similar to end-users in branch offices, end-user handheld devices need protection from Internet threats and users' Internet activities from corporate-liable devices (i.e., the enterprise is liable for wireless usage) should be controlled. - Reversing Security Appliance Sprawl - The advantage of a network-approach is that existing and new security technologies are incorporated into the MSSP's security service delivery environment, not at enterprise locations. - IT Personnel Offload - Balancing security and business objectives requires an increasingly talented team of security practitioners. - Speed-to-Protection - Correlated with the previous point, not only does the CSP's team of security practitioners allow it to serve its subscriber base well from a technological basis but also in terms of speed. - Budgetary Certainty - As a subscription service, network-based security services offer a predictable cost structure. The subscribing enterprise pays a fixed monthly amount for its service subscriptions regardless of changes in the threat environment. - Options Remain Open - For enterprises that subscribe to network-based security services, their options on how to conduct information security remain open. - Meet Compliance - The spirit of regulatory compliance is substantiation of security practices. Compliant security practices must be shown to be in place and continuously in effect. |
| Stratecast / Frost & Sullivan |