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Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) News: 30 September 2020

riskacademy — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 16:37:19 +0000

by Joe Panettieri • Sep 30, 2020

Each business day, MSSP Alert broadcasts a quick lineup of news, analysis and chatter from across the managed security services provider ecosystem.

The Content: Written for MSSPs, SOC as a Service (SOCaaS), Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and MSP security providers — and those who need to partner up with such companies.
Frequency and Format: Every business morning. Typically one or two sentences for each item below.
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A. Today’s MSSP Alerts

1. Cyber Training: Fortinet has launched an Information Security Awareness and Training service for organizations looking to educate employees about the increasing risks of cyber attacks.

2. Talent – SIEM: Exabeam has hired former Gartner analyst Gorka Sadowski as chief strategy officer.

3. Partnership – Managed Detection and Response (MDR): Deloitte Canada‘s Cyber Risk Services will leverage Qualys VMDR (Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response) capabilities. Deloitte is a Top 250 MSP for 2020. Unlike some rivals, Qualys has vowed to offer MDR services through partners and won’t compete with…

Pandemic Forces Security Staff Cuts, Hiring Freezes, Study Finds

riskacademy — Sun, 19 Jul 2020 11:39:25 +0000

by DH Kass • Jul 18, 2020

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has forced corporate security teams to cut staff and freeze hiring as the cyber risks and the financial peril of the crisis take hold, a new study said.

Since the onset of the pandemic, three in four companies experienced security team furloughs and 68 percent laid off team members, Exabeam, a security information and event management (SIEM) specialist, said in its 2020 State of the SOC report. To put the data in perspective, in the first half of 2020, 80 percent of organizations experienced an uptick in cyber attack attempts and one in three were victimized by a successful hacker infiltration, the Foster City, California-based company said.

To compile its report, Exabeam gathered data from 1,000 IT security professionals at small- to medium-sized enterprises, half of which held chief information security officer (CISO) or security operations center (SOC) roles. Half of the respondents were security engineer/analysts or security architects. The study spanned organizations in the U.S. and U.K.

Key findings include:

Cyber risk. 80 percent of companies overall experienced an increased number of cyber attack…