MSS Buyers Guide

Technology that detects. People that defend. Shortcomings of the status quo An Intelligent Detection and Response approach gives you the best of both: a service that not only identifies and addresses threats, but one that helps your organization’s security practices to evolve. Too good to be true? More like too appealing to ignore... Poor old MSSPs. They’ve come under a bit of pressure recently, for a number of reasons. First, there’s all that cynicism around their secretive blackbox operating practices, with detection shrouded in mystery. And then, the more outdated MSSPs don’t address advanced and novel threats. They often miss the type of nifty predators that regularly bypass controls, and they’re guilty of allowing monitoring, incident response and dwell times to stagnate. In response to the criticism directed at the humble MSSP, Managed Detection and Response (MDR) vendors have leapt into the spotlight – eager to flex their incident response muscles. Those sharp-suited MDR players arrive on the scene keen to tell you just how capable they are when it comes to addressing an MSSP’s shortcomings. They’ll conveniently gloss over how little they do to improve your resilience. Sneaky. They might forget to mention how they often fail to prevent the same attacks from recurring by missing the key insights that would have helped your business to evolve over time. They’d much rather you patted them on the back for everything they’ve detected (and looked past the fact they haven’t actually explained how it was detected). Similarly, they’ll focus on advanced threats, and not those rather mundane (but no less important) day-today routine attacks. In this climate of compromise, businesses just can’t seem to find what they really need. A complete managed security solution – one that marries the robust outsourced model of an MSSP with the leadingedge detection and response capabilities. Technology that detects. People that defend. An intelligent alternative Good news, then, that the solution to those demands is actually already here. And it’s called Intelligent Detection and Response. This approach stacks consummate detection and response capability atop a supercharged security insights engine – which generates information tailored specifically for your organization. If that sounds like a distant security utopia, don’t worry – it’s not. This intelligent approach is not only possible in the here and now, it’s also straightforward and can return immediate benefits – provided you find the right partner. So, here are the five qualities your managed security partner needs if they’re to deliver an Intelligent Detection and Response service. www.baesystems.com/cyberreveal