Managed detection and response offerings provide remotely delivered security operations center capabilities to detect, investigate and mitigate incidents.
Not all organizations can afford large teams to address all security requirements. But they also can't afford to leave networks, data or systems exposed.
Managed service providers have been facing the increasing threat of organized cybercrime operations with complex structures and capabilities, reports CRN.
Portland-based Ruby Receptionists, which offers phone-answering services to over 10,000 small businesses, had its systems affected by a cyberattack against service provider Opus Interactive, The Oregonian reports.
The cybersecurity authorities of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance say they expect managed service providers (MSPs) and their customers to continue to be targets of malicious cyber activity.
One of the primary tensions within DoD’s efforts to raise the cybersecurity bar for its defense contractors is doing it in way that doesn’t further erode the military’s base of small business innovators. And yet, the current bottom up approach by most hackers makes small businesses a primary threat to federal security efforts.