Managed services are no longer just a cheap alternative to in-house services for most companies. These services now play an important role in transforming and improving the way we conduct our day-to-day operational activities. Our day-to-day operations rely heavily on IT, and when it comes to IT, our biggest concern is security. As a result, managed IT service providers are now offering managed services as standalone services that provide a one-stop solution to various challenges you face, such as landscaping, technology standards compliance, staffing and skills pressures, data intrusion and malware management, and several other similar security factors.
Managed IT Services
Although there is an economic downturn or global recession, general market research has shown that among managed IT services, managed security has increased 8% since 2009. Previously, companies did not trust a third party to manage their services to prevent any kind of data intrusion or exploitation. Recently, however, the trend has moved in the opposite direction as there have been multiple security threats within organizations, either from the employees working there or from mismanagement of security implementations. As a result, managed security measures such as whole-system management, log analysis of deployment mechanisms, software as a service (SaaS), and cloud services for device monitoring and management have become a necessity within the enterprise.
To complement the industrial growth of managed IT and services, there have been recent mergers of some big names such as VeriSign, which was acquired by Secure Works, then Cyber Trust, ISS and Counterpane, which have also been a major success in growing the managed security market while exerting global/international influence on a huge customer base.
Managed Security
Cost is one of the major concerns when we need to move to a new technology or try a new implementation, but managed security has a greater impact or relationship with the overall optimal performance of business operations. Managed services from IT service providers include a wide range of professional and high-quality services, including application security, managed firewalls, application security scans and thorough testing to make the applications in use more secure.
In addition, the providers also take care of all regulatory compliance for risk management and suggest to the companies the necessary investments or areas that require special attention. In today’s world, even malware has become so intelligent that we need to take very serious steps to implement threat intelligence and vulnerabilities, and managed security seems to be the ideal solution.
