Security Lingo Decoded: What is Managed Security?

Setting up a strong line of defense is

pretty simple and hassle-free with
optimum threat visibility. Though
business owners invest in a motley
range of security tools and
implements, getting the maximum
value out of these tools seems to be
the real challenge. The best way to
put underutilized resources to use
and get the highest return on security
investment is to assign deployment
and security management to a
seasoned security operations team. Managed Security Service Providers are the best bet whenever
an organization faces the conundrum of miscalculated security strategies and insubstantial
situational awareness.
Managed Security is a service that lets businesses offload security management responsibilities to a
dedicated Security Operations Center that typically uses proactive threat detection and containment
to protect the data assets and networks monitored. A Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP)
remotely manages the security status, risk exposure and vulnerabilities on the clients IT
infrastructure, end-user systems and other managed assets on a subscription model. The selfsustaining, laboratory-like operation unit allows organizations outsource the challenges in
performing uninterrupted processes in securing their enterprise.

The service is often preferred by organizations that do not have the requisite technical expertise in
their in-house IT team and would rather have a full-fledged team of experts coordinating all tasks
pertaining to their security implements on a centralized, integrated platform. MSSPs are sought after
for their combined benefits of battle-tested expertise in process efficiency and the optimized access
to industry-leading security solutions they facilitate.
Their topmost objectives are threat visibility, improving defenses as well as security awareness while
reducing costs and helping clients realize maximum value out of security solutions. Since the
ultimate goal of Managed Security is Incident Response, i.e. detecting and eliminating security
incidents, MSSPs direct their teams to carry out deployment, behavioral analysis, baseline
establishment and progressive hardening of the environment to reduce or eliminate the impact of
anomalies.

MSSPs the Security Operations Team and its purpose

Managed Security Providers can work with you as custodians of optimal compliance standards for
your information systems, sensitive data and operations. Vulnerability Management focuses on
identifying and resolving threats so as to eliminate risks of exposure to compromise of user data
privacy and intellectual property theft. Most MSSPs regard their security goals through the
compliance perspective and guide the streamlining of compliance reporting, remediation and auditreadiness by continuously managing adjustments in all security controls deployed.
The team is typically comprised of dynamic teams of analysts and compliance consultants who
channel all tasks and summarize all events with the ultimate goal of improving security awareness
among executive teams, administrators, key stakeholders and decision-making staff within the
enterprise. The idea is to constantly vitalize resilience and calculative spending as the enterprise
progresses across technologies, collaborations and modernization initiatives.
Be it in assessing risk tolerance, asset criticality or analyzing gaps in the existing policy framework, a
Security Operations Center (SOC) can bring into perspective the priority, context, scope and
direction for every security risk management initiative. A Security Operations Center takes charge of
reinforcing your defenses by instantly identifying latent vulnerabilities in your endpoints, perilous
user behavior, and poorly guarded data assets. Threat Analytics capabilities are used to detect
malicious entities and intent in your environment through an inventory of all your assets, active
services and communications.
Deployment and Optimization of advanced security controls
Manufacturers of Malware and Ransomware are beefing up their weapons with functionality that
can defeat and deceive conventional signature-based firewall and antivirus software. What the
situation warrants is an Intrusion Detection System that has proven capabilities in tracking down
multi-vector attacks. CIOs today acknowledge the unparalleled benefits of a threat management
system that handles both anomaly-based detection and signature-based response with constantly
advancing correlation directives.
That brings us to Security Information and Event Management unarguably the pinnacle of every
responsive, continuous threat management platform. An SIEM tool that has not been acclimatized
and optimized to deal with evolving attacks can end up on the shelf. It pays to thoroughly validate
not only the purported features of a vendors solution, but also verify that it works best for your
environment.
Security Information and Event Management is an important component of a powerful Managed
Security Service and it is instrumental in achieving pervasive threat visibility across the enterprise.
This is achieved through services such as Log Management, Raw Log Analysis, Event Correlation and
Log Retention.
A Managed Security Service Provider knows the best-of-breed products in and out, which means
their guidance can help you make an informed decision to invest only in what you actually need. An
MSSP can provide objective advice on solutions that will solve specific problems and deploy them
systematically after a detailed study of the system design strategies and network architecture.

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