Trustwave: 78% of IT Pros Expect to Partner With MSSP in 2015

Many information security professionals are looking for help with security and may very well partner with managed security service providers (MSSPs) this year. That’s according to a new report from Trustwave. Here are the details.

The 2015 Security Pressures Report revealed that most businesses expect the pressure to secure their organizations against cyber threats will increase in 2015. Also, 78 percent of information security professionals said they are likely or plan to partner with an MSSP to protect their organizations.

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So how can businesses overcome information security pressures? Josh Shaul, Trustwave’s vice president of product management, noted that both enterprises and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) can work with MSSPs to fill information security manpower and expertise gaps.

“Enterprises can augment their in-house staff by partnering with a third-party team of security experts whose sole responsibility is to focus on protecting their information so that the in-house IT team can focus on other revenue-generating priorities,” Shaul told MSPmentor. “SMBs, many of which lack the manpower and expertise in-house to protect their data, can outsource their security needs to a third-party security partner so that their in-house ‘Jack of all trades’ can focus on other projects.”

Trustwave surveyed 1,016 full-time IT managers, directors, chief information officers (CIOs), chief information security officers (CISOs) and other decision-making IT and security professionals in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada. The survey was conducted between Dec. 2014 and Jan. 2015.

Full report results are available for download here.

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