It’s 8:15 on a Tuesday morning. Accounting is processing invoices, employees are answering emails, someone is working remotely, and another employee just received an email that looks like it came from Microsoft asking them to verify their password.
Nobody walked into work thinking about cybersecurity. They’re thinking about customers, deadlines, projects, and everything else that needs to get done.
But while everyone is working, your devices, accounts, network, and data are constantly active. Who is paying attention when something doesn’t look right?
That’s where a Managed Security Service Provider, or MSSP, comes in.
What Is an MSSP?
An MSSP helps manage and monitor a business’s cybersecurity on an ongoing basis. Instead of relying only on security software or waiting until something goes wrong, an MSSP looks across the environment for threats, vulnerabilities, access issues, and other risks.
At CatchMark, that can include threat monitoring and response, identity and access management, device security, security operations, compliance, data protection, and employee cybersecurity training.
Think back to that Tuesday morning. The suspicious email may be caught by an employee who learned what to look for during cybersecurity training. Strong authentication can make a stolen password less useful. Security monitoring can identify suspicious activity happening elsewhere in the environment.
Your employees don’t need to see everything happening behind the scenes. They need someone making sure it is happening.
The Business Takeaway
Cybersecurity isn’t something you set up once and forget. Employees come and go, new devices get added, software changes, and new vulnerabilities and phishing tactics appear. Even a 30- or 40-person company has email accounts, laptops, cloud applications, customer information, financial records, and network equipment that need protection.
Think about what happens during a normal month. An employee leaves and their access needs to be removed. A new laptop is added to the network. A vulnerability is discovered in software you use. Someone receives a convincing phishing email. Your backups run overnight—but are they actually working?
None of those situations necessarily stop the business from operating, but each creates something that needs attention.
That’s where managed security becomes practical. Depending on the level of service, CatchMark can provide vulnerability scanning, patch monitoring, backup reporting, phishing simulations, access-control reviews, threat reporting, risk reporting, and incident remediation.
The goal isn’t to give every business the same cybersecurity program. CatchMark’s managed security services range from foundational protection to more proactive security and compliance support based on an organization’s size, cybersecurity maturity, and objectives.
Ultimately, the goal is simple: identify and address more risks before they turn into business disruptions.
Who’s Paying Attention?
Tomorrow morning, your employees will open their laptops, answer emails, log into applications, download files, and get back to business. Most of them won’t spend much time thinking about cybersecurity—and they shouldn’t have to.
But someone should.
If you’re not sure who’s monitoring your cybersecurity or what would happen if a threat were detected, contact CatchMark Technologies. We can help you understand where your business stands today and whether managed security services make sense for your organization.
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