By Jon Oltsik, Senior Principal Analyst
SOC-as-a-service for Midmarket and Small Enterprise Organizations
SOC-as-a-service for Midmarket and Small Enterprise Organizations
Recent ESG research reveals an ominous trend—cybersecurity continues to grow more difficult to manage and operate each year. Why is this happening? What are the ramifications of this situation, and what can be done to address this portentous situation? The white paper concludes:
- Cybersecurity difficulties have common roots. Cybersecurity is growing more and more cumbersome because of the increasingly dangerous threat landscape. Armed with a marketplace of exploits, specialized skills, and sales opportunities, hackers can easily piece together attacks that circumvent traditional security controls and look like normal behavior to security monitoring tools. Additionally, new IT initiatives like cloud computing, mobility, and the Internet of Things (IoT) make IT more complex as they increase the attack surface.
- IT risk is also on the rise. While midmarket and small enterprise organizations are investing in some new security initiatives, IT risk is growing quickly and most organizations can’t keep up.
- SOC-as-a-service offerings may help organizations bridge risk, resource, and skills gaps. Given the pace of change and the global cybersecurity skills shortage, it may be difficult (if not impossible) for midmarket and small enterprises to address their organizations’ cybersecurity requirements. Rather than struggle alone, these firms may be best served by utilizing a SOC (security operations center)-as-a-service alternative from vendors such as EiQ. This type of managed security service provider (MSSP) offering can help organizations protect IT assets, detect security events, and respond in a timely fashion.
Information Security Grows Increasingly Difficult
Information security is getting harder and harder, year-by-year. Which aspects of information security? The answer to this question reveals the depth of this issue—in fact, all aspects of information security grow increasingly difficult. As an example, ESG research indicates that 79% of security professionals working at enterprise organizations (i.e., more than 1,000 employees) believe that network security has become more difficult than it was 2 years ago (see Figure 1),1 but ESG has noted the same type of data with regard to other infosec categories like endpoint security, mobile security, and cyber supply chain security.
