Infosys, Oracle, Rackspace, now managed security service providers in the US

BT News Desk
September 29, 2019 11:44 pm

The evolving security landscape, growing compliance requirements, and the changing IT environment have created many challenges for organisations. Organisations are struggling to acquire the security expertise to assist in managing and monitoring the constant flow of security threats, and to fully implement and integrate the growing number of tools that their security teams have acquired. As a result, organisations are turning to Managed Security Service Providerss to deliver the security expertise, span of security capabilities and consulting services to assist in preparing, detecting, and responding against future attacks.

The security landscape is complex and challenging, an understatement, given the number of moving parts that are involved in defending an enterprise from cyberattacks. In this environment, many Managed Security Service Providers have a breadth of security services in their MSS portfolio. The differentiation among these Managed Security Service Providers will be tied around their flexibility in delivering security services and advanced detection and response capabilities and how these Managed Security Service Providers can provide holistic solutions that are tied to their clients’ unique needs, both today and in the future.

Managed Security Service Providers are also offering a steady stream of new services that extend beyond traditional managed security solutions. The primary reason for many of these services is essentially to manage the security operation as a whole, including integration across various security technology domains, such as managed SOCs, and different phases, such as managed response services. The combination of technology, human expertise, and specific methodologies allow managed detection and response providers to move from a reactive to proactive approach to threat detection, which allows for faster time to remediate an incident.

IDC defines managed security services as round the clock remote management or monitoring of IT security functions delivered via remote security operations centres. This includes all MSS, whether these involve the management of security solutions deployed on a customer’s premises or solutions hosted in a datacentre external to a customer’s premises.

IDC published a new MarketScape vendor assessment profiling ten emerging vendors in the US managed security services market. The ten managed security services providers featured in the report are Century Link, EY, Herjavec Group, Infosys, Kudelski Security, Masergy, Nuspire, Optiv, Oracle, and Rackspace.

Key takeaways

  • Ten MSSPs in the US report: Century Link, EY, Herjavec Group, Infosys, Kudelski Security, Masergy, Nuspire, Optiv, Oracle, and Rackspace.
  • The security landscape is complex and challenging, an understatement, given the number of moving parts that are involved.
  • Managed Security Service Providers are offering new services that extend beyond traditional managed security solutions.

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