Our Blogs

While security personnel is becoming constantly being used to plan for enforcement reviews and handle security incidents, B2B businesses is a business that has started inquiries for the outsourcing of managed security services.

A recent report by analyst firm IDC found that Canadian companies will become more focused on SaaS third-party and controlled security services. According to IDC, 61 percent of security professionals also note that the main reason for outsourcing is to ensure 24-hour staffing, while 39 percent say that security is not the core of their business.

To CISOs, the most important shift is that they are now working on the presumption of being hacked. As a result, we see them increasingly turning to advanced behavioral analysis tools that detect unidentified anomalous events, such as servers interacting with each other that have never previously interacted or data exchanges with external sites that have never before existed.

Cyber threats do not recognize boundaries

Cyber threats know no boundaries Regardless of nationality, CISOs are all facing new groups of digital and cyber threats from professional hacker teams and illegal marketers. Cybercrime, experts say that this has become an organized crime.

The threat environment is evolving so fast that it is almost impossible for security teams to keep up. "This is where the offerings of managed security services are essential. Managed security service providers can invest in acquiring the necessary expertise, technology, relationships, and business methodology to meet their customers ' security requirements.

Managed security service providers can invest in gaining the necessary expertise, technology, relationships, and business methodology to meet their customers ' security requirements.

A strong partnership with a managed security service provider adds to the existing security team of a company trained, experienced cyber-threat specialists.

Selecting the most appropriate framework 

With more standards and protocols than virtually any other industry, selecting the most appropriate framework remains one of the most important security decisions a B2B professional can make. This has to go hand in hand with a B2B company's compliance regimes in its specific vertical.

Choose the security framework- ISO, NIST CSF, PCI DSS- best suited for your organization based on industry, regulatory requirements and contractual agreements. Base your existing controls against the selected framework and develop an improvement plan. Define the testing process for each check

Other experts say B2B professionals need to understand safety standards first. According to Dan Hoban, Business Development Director, Nuspire Networks, an MSSP specializing in network security management, this often means that standards must exist at a level that everyone in the organization can understand.

The most successful standards programs start by writing a report for everyone to understand, not just the IT department. In order to ensure that everyone follows safety standards, creates compliance procedures and training ensure that it becomes a routine, not just a text. It is also important for everyone in the company to adapt to security processes- authentication policies, methods of information sharing, etc.

In addition, a B2B security practitioner must keep documentary evidence and work plans in a centralized location to be referenced as needed.

Select the best personnel and equipment

Choose the right personnel and equipment. Cyber threats continue to spread and expand in the B2B domain. With the advent of new technology such as SDN and drones, it remains a challenge to find the right staff and appropriate resources for minimizing protection.

There is a severe shortage of qualified security staff who are able to understand what resources to use, how to integrate them into a security program, and how companies are looking for the kind of security outcomes.

B2B companies may find it impractical to do their own security in this situation. And they may perceive that the process can be simplified by a single security vendor. Then you need to create a hierarchy of protection.

Prioritize vendors who can contribute several technology pillars; vendors who allow your defense orchestration should be at the top of your list. 

Alternative to recruitment

The very main reason for managed security service providers (MSSPs) is these kinds of problems. To conduct business, B2B companies went into business- not to provide proof of remedies for computer breaches. According to experts, they need an optional solution when dealing with security issues.

Another the undeniable benefit to companies is the versatility that comes with MSSPs, "says Simon Talbot, analyst, Proactive Risk Management, a company responsible for risk management and security solutions." It is no longer necessary to employ, hire, train or manage resources internally for MSSPs to take care of the functions of security and crisis management. This versatility also means service level and effectiveness are highly achieved.

B2B companies can outsource managed security services as well as the CISO itself. At least that's a solution provider's premise. The problem with many companies is that they have no need or ability to pay for a full-time security professional, so they allow their network administrators or developers to do part-time security.

This becomes problematic because security is niche expertise, and it's not really something that you can pick up from the side, and companies are finding that the hard way. "Hence, the new approach to outsourcing CISO services as needed.

With every newly advertised network hack, it seems to go in spurts. According to MacDougall, this is when B2B management teams realize that there is no one on board to secure their customer data and need to virtualize the role. This allows even the smallest B2B start-up to have protection for a fraction of the costs on the scale of the Fortune 500 company.