Cynet Empowers IT Resellers and Service Providers to Become Fully Qualified MSSPs

As cyber incidents increase in scope and impact, more and more
organizations come to realize that outsourcing their defenses is
the best practice—significantly increasing the Managed Security
Service Provider (MSSP) market opportunities.

Until recently, IT integrators, VARs, and MSPs haven’t
participated in the growing and profitable MSSP market as it
entailed massive investments in building an in-house skilled
security team.

However, this is beginning to change as a result of certain
security vendors, like Cynet, that provide a purpose-built partner
offering that enables IT integrators, VARs, and MSPs to provide
managed security service with zero investment in hardware or
personnel.

Their offering includes a 24/7 SOC that trains and supports the
partner’s existing team and a security platform that consolidates
and automates breach protection (including endpoint, user, and
network security), making it simple to operate by any IT
professional.

To learn more about the Cynet partner offering,
click here^[1].

The barriers to becoming an MSSP

The main obstacle to entering the MSSP market is a lack of prior
security experience. Responsibility for an organization’s breach
protection is not taken lightly, making many IT service providers
cautious about offering security services without skilled
professionals at hand.

The difficulties in finding such professionals are the main
reason why a standard IT provider is barred out from becoming an
MSSP. Be that as it may, many re-sellers and managed service
providers understand that the way to grow their revenues and
especially their profitability is by adding managed security
services.

Consolidation and automation – the path to MSSP

Security consolidation and automation appeal to security services
newcomers because they shift breach protection workflows such as
investigations and remediations from being dependent on manual
skill to a product functionality that can be performed regardless
of prior security skill and experience.

This switch changes the rules of the security game in many
aspects. Mainly, it expands the MSSP field, making it available and
relevant to a broader audience of IT service providers.

Taking a further look at Cynet’s partner offering, it’s clear
that it significantly lowers the entry barriers for re-sellers,
integrators, and managed service providers to provide managed
security services, through the following features:

• Cloud-native solution with no hardware to purchase, deploy and
  integrate
• Purpose-built platform to radically simplify security
  operations, Cynet 360 can be efficiently operated by any IT
  professional without the need for specialized security proficiency
  – which means there is no need to hire a new expert team.
• Cynet’s platform includes the functionalities of all core
  security products – AV, NGAV, EDR, Network Traffic Analytics,
  Deception, and User Behavior Analysis (UBA). As such, it enables
  the MSSP to provide an extensive range of security needs to its
  existing client base.
• Cynet automates the remediation needs for infected hosts,
  malicious files, compromised user accounts, and unsafe network
  traffic, with a wide range of response orchestration capabilities.
  Apart from being a key capability differentiator, response
  automation removes operational burdens from the MSSP, increasing
  its team’s capacity.
• Cynet’s partner offering includes CyOps – a 24\7 security team
  that provides full on-boarding and training for the partner staff,
  as well as performs alert monitoring, threat hunting, and attacks
  investigation for the partner’s customers. Practically this means
  that the MSSP gains an additional highly skilled workforce that
  ensures its customers get the best of breach protection.

Learn more about becoming an MSSP with
Cynet 360^[2].