Resilience today requires a unified view of enterprise risk, helping teams identify and address vulnerabilities before they become disruptions. Managed services play a crucial role in this approach, offering centralized visibility, real-time monitoring, and analytics — not only in cybersecurity but also in connected areas such as financial crime compliance, third-party risk, and overall enterprise risk management.
One strength of managed services is the consolidation of disparate approaches. For example, many chief information security officers struggle with such a complex patchwork of tools — including security information and event management (SIEM, internet of things (IoT) security, endpoint security, and others — that they spend more time trying to integrate these dashboards than actually harnessing the data for security insights.
Leading managed services providers, on the other hand, can integrate digital identity, application security, data security, threat intelligence, detection, and response into one source of cybersecurity truth. This way, teams can quickly see vulnerabilities, determine which pose the most significant risk, and take preemptive action. They can also demonstrate compliance with regulations and industry standards while simplifying the process of articulating their cyber posture to regulators.
It’s no wonder that, according to the KPMG and HFS Research Managed Services Outlook Survey, 73 percent of companies have implemented cybersecurity managed services for a business function or at scale across their organization. And 71 percent use managed services for over half of their cyber activities.
