Inside the Security Mind: Making the Tough Decisions

Outsourcing Security Maintenance

With the growing demand for security services and the high costs associated with hiring a local security staff, many organizations look for alternate methods of managing security. This has opened the market for managed security services wherein clients can pay an external organization to monitor and react to various security issues. Managed services are a great way to provide certain types of services, such as off-hour monitoring of local security devices and running continual penetration scans and attack simulations. Hackers usually attack at odd hours of the night, when security staff are not present. With managed services, however, a staff shared among many clients can be utilized 24×7, rather than hiring a ...