Maximize Productivity and Minimize Risk for Customers with Managed Mobile Security

addressed. Potential attack surfaces are expanding every day, it seems, often in an uncontrolled environment that makes security a big challenge. When there is no strategy in place, the ad-hoc development of a multi-cloud environment adds even more challenges to the security agenda. With multiple vendors in the mix, your customers are finding it hard even to know who is really responsible for different aspects of security. MSSPs can provide guidance, visibility, and clarity to maintain control over data and fight automated attacks.

Guidance on the Shared Responsibility Model: As they move forward with cloud adoption, your customers can end up with an unplanned cloud environment that is difficult, if not impossible, to secure. What’s more, they struggle to understand who is responsible for each part of the cloud security plan: their cloud vendors or their own security team. MSSPs can help clarify the blurred lines of shared responsibility in the cloud, and augment security controls where necessary to ensure compliance and data safety.

Public and Multi-Cloud Security: As cloud environments expand and company workloads are deployed across them, business-critical data becomes scattered across a distributed infrastructure that presents many risks if not secured properly. The tools that are used to secure each cloud adoption can behave differently, and each needs to be customized and configured separately. That can hinder visibility and make for a very inefficient deployment of services. Partners can help with a multicloud security package that offers broad protection for all of those disparate attack surfaces across public and multicloud environments.

SD-WAN: To enable edge computing needs, companies are cutting costs by implementing SD-WAN. The money they save by removing unnecessary routing hardware makes it too attractive a solution to ignore. However, their growing awareness of cyberattacks tells them that they must consider security, too. What organizations need to know is that there is indeed a way to secure their SD-WAN: by enlisting the help of managed mobile security services.

Extend Connectivity to Branch Locations: Your customers are seeking higher profits by extending better computing power to their branch locations in ways that are both cost-efficient and secure. Branch offices need to connect to their business-critical SaaS applications without having to worry about overburdening connections. Traditional WAN connections are no match for today’s complex digital networks, which vendors are quick to help companies replace with SD-WAN. But those vendors don’t always prioritize security, so many of your customers end up with security vulnerabilities they did not have before. Partners who offer managed mobile services can step in and close those security gaps, providing critical SD-WAN guidance.

The MSSP Value

In mobile security management, MSSPs have the chance to offer next-gen value to a growing sector that cuts across every vertical and occupies the minds of many key stakeholders. The distributed environments that are increasingly becoming essential to enterprise competitiveness and growth must be enabled with high-performing network coverage, but they must remain secure, as well.

The broad security that MSSPs offer for these environments, in addition to the integrated security fabric made possible by Fortinet products, should be part of any organization’s security strategy. MSSPs can help their customers monitor events to ensure detection and remediation while keeping mobile deployments fast and productive. Everyone stays happy.

Final Thoughts

More and more organizations are relying on a mobile workforce, which leverages access to cloud applications to stay productive and compete in an agile world. The fast-growing need to secure mobile workforces calls for a comprehensive security solution. Partners who offer managed mobile security have an exciting opportunity ahead of them: helping their customers navigate what has quickly become this pressing top security issue.

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