The promise of managed security services
Colin Tankard · Network Security · 2012
Managed security services hold a lot of promise and are suited for use by small and medium-size organisations, as well as their larger counterparts. Such services allow organisations to improve their overall security posture and meet governance and compliance objectives. Managed encryption services are a good example of how managed security services are able to provide organisations with significant benefits by taking away many of the pain points and by being cost-effective and easy to deploy, as Colin Tankard of DigitalPathways explains. The market for managed security services is showing strong levels of growth. According to a report issued by Infonetics Research in 2012, the worldwide market for managed security services was worth $11.7bn in 2011 and will grow to $18bn in 2016.1 Among the reasons for the growth are the increased importance of network security and risk management owing to the growing volume and sophistication of network security incidents.