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Following a list of the greater benefits and advantages in using the Managed Security Services.
Costs
The cost of the managed services is typically smaller than using internal resources dedicated to these activities. A Managed Security Provider ( MSP ) is in a position putting into effect economies of scale, distributing the investments in analysts, experts, hardware, software and infrastructures on various customers, reducing the costs for single customer.
Moreover, a company can convert the variable costs (staff and investments) in fixed costs (monthly service fee), realizing therefore also a fiscal advantage, deducing the fee from the sales against the devaluation of business assets, having moreover an increase of the cash flow turned out of the transfer of the purchases of hardware and software to the service supplier.
Staff
The cost of the internal personnel, with security skills, can be also prohibitive, if we consider the fact of having to carry out searches, assumptions, trainings of the employee and specially manage the economic aspects and of "satisfaction" of the staff, to the aim to avoid the " turn-over", the even most disadvantageous one.
Skills
Internal personnel that manages the security only sometime or that sees only a limited number of incidents is probably less skilled than people that perform the same activities full time, that sees the impact of the security on an elevated number of clients and environments, and that is constantly in contact with the greater centers and experts of security in the world.
Infrastructures
The MSP can guarantee greater security also for the simply fact to have a planned infrastructure in order to provide high availability, Disaster Recovery and complete redundancy of the equipment in use. In this way they can guarantee a continuous support, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year, without interruptions.
Objectivity and independence
A company might be tied to investments made in terms of acquisition of products and security equipment, and therefore it could not be possible to quickly modernize to solutions and technologies, being bound to economic factors and of amortization.
The MSP generally guarantee an independent perspective and approach to the security aspects and - always thanks to the fact that the security is the only mission and that the costs and the investments can be splitted on an high number of customers - can be allowed to choose the best technologies offered from the market and eventually to change the technologies in use with more adequate others if needed.
Technologies and services
The security technologies and the products - like all the equipment - are effective only if properly employed, by well prepared staff. As an example, when an intrusion is identified , the MSP can use the own remote analysis tools in order to establish if the alarm is justified and eventually to block further intrusion attempts. Or they are in a position to opportunely define the appropriate security policy, considering every more recent and innovative attack typology.
MSP can moreover influence - based of the own customer base - the security vendors in order to improve the security of their products or to add useful features to the own customers.
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