Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

For a managed service provider (MSP), answering questions about data governance—specifically data security and privacy—is a vital part of the job. Understanding the complexities of content management systems, automation, and more ensures you are at the top of the data security field. Maintaining file and data security is a fact of life—usually by force of law. However, it’s a subject not many of your clients will ever fully understand.

The global managed security services market was valued at $19.4 billion in 2017 and is forecast to reach $46.1 billion by 2023 at a CAGR of 14.9%. There has been an upward trend seen in the need for threat-intelligence by several sectors today. Due to an increased requirement to fight against the advanced threat landscape, customers today expect managed IT service providers and MSPs to adopt advanced security technologies to detect better and anticipate potential threats well in time.

Today Calligo announces it has completed the acquisition of Cinnte Technologies, a Cavan- and Dublin-based MSP, specialising in managed IT, cloud and security services. This marks Calligo’s eighth international acquisition in three years, and the third in Ireland in 2020, reinforcing Calligo’s position as one of Ireland’s largest IT managed services providers in terms of resources, market share and especially breadth of services.

Many organizations don’t rely on outsourced security solutions such as MSSP. Rather, they prefer building their own SOC to combat nefarious cybersecurity threats and attacks. However, it is vital to know how an effective SOC is built and what should be its essential security ingredients.