Instead of battling the exceptionally poor retention internal security teams suffer, instead of spending vast amounts of money for an internal Security Operations Centre (SOC), you are much better off trusting competent and proven providers to deliver your IT security function.

Benefits of Managed Security Services include a consistent experience, vast expertise only the largest businesses could otherwise afford, highly-reactive security incident response and consistent effort for prevention. It is in our interests to ensure that your business is protected from all reasonable cyber security threats, this is achieved in a variety of ways.

Familiarity

It is under-rated but being familiar with the specifics of your business means we can tailor the service to your needs. Where’s the point in spending thousands on a security team removed from your teams and business goals? Through our consistent efforts to ‘profile’ your business, our security teams can distinguish actual threats from benign behaviour. Naturally, we are just a phone call away should you need to notify our Support Analysts of false-alarms such as business travel, and we are only a phone call away from you should a security incident occur.

Social engineering attacks are a serious risk to any business because they target the human element. This does not mean that people are the weakest link, instead it is that every business has a level of trust to individuals in the business. An IT provider with no familiarity of your business, processes and people becomes a severe social engineering risk which can topple your business. Familiarity with your people, and with our people, is nothing to be sniffed at in an industry where trust is everything.

Technology

‘Artificial Intelligence’ and security automation has two sides, on the one hand it enables security teams to combat cyber attacks and on the other hand it gives state-backed attackers and cyber-criminals the ability to automate their attacks against you. By adopting choice technologies we ensure that your business can navigate and increasingly complex and dangerous security landscape.

There is a difference between complex and complicated, this is true for cyber security as well. Complex cyber-attacks can be identified and thwarted by using mature security tools, from endpoint protection to data loss protection. Complex attacks can still be thwarted with the correct tooling. Complicated attacks are harder to tackle, they are often through supply-chains and conducted by state-backed hacking groups. Complicated cyber attacks are pursued by mature criminal organisations and hacking groups who are effectively treating it as a full-time job, they are not some ‘script kiddie’ in their mum’s basement and need to be taken seriously.

By adopting choice technologies and security vendors, you benefit from a ‘defence in depth’ approach which will be familiar to anyone who has worked in defence. This is about identifying routine threats and heading them off immediately, and for those cyber-attacks which take a complicated and obfuscated approach, sometime over many years, it is resilience which is key.

The right technology is essential for collating threat intelligence to uncover complicated attacks and head them off. This includes mature data loss prevention and business continuity systems so that you can continue operation while under attack.

Expertise

Without the knowledge to secure and sustain your IT systems, you are a sitting duck. Drawing on expertise from across our vendors ensures that what is very complicated software-engineering (e.g. a web application) can be more readily secured. In practice this means aligning with choice-suppliers and adopting technologies which are secure by default, rather than with security tacked-on.

We have worked with top-100 businesses in the world and extend this expertise to SMEs. Our expertise is sector-specific and ensures that we understand the unique risks your business faces. Managed Security Services can never be off-the-shelf, it has to be bespoke to your business and industry.

Don’t believe the hype

Adding ‘AI-powered’ to a product does not mean it is effective, nor does it mean it reduces your workload. Instead of chasing shiny-products which are marketed to solve problems, it is better to use proven technologies which actually deliver. Your business is too important to be secured on a punt.

Rather than believing the latest craze, Suzaku Consulting curate our vendors to ensure that our customers can depend on secure and reliable IT systems. This is end-to-end security, often referred to as ‘secure by design‘ or security by default. Yes we can sell nearly any security technology under the sun; we don’t – it isn’t helpful to your business.

Depending on a trusted advisor to identify and assuage risks in your business is central to our Managed Security Services. Without our advisory service you business will simply be cast in the wind, hoping against hope you are actually secure.