[6] Newcomers to the market include a number of smaller providers used to protect homes, small businesses, and high networth clients.
Consulting may also include security product integration and On-site mitigation support after an intrusion has occurred, including emergency incident response and forensic analysis[1][10] This service involves installing, upgrading, and managing the firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and/or intrusion detection hardware and software, electronic mail, and commonly performing configuration changes on behalf of the customer.
[10] This is the day-to-day monitoring and interpretation of important system events throughout the network—including unauthorized behavior, malicious hacks, denial of service (DoS), anomalies, and trend analysis.
This includes one-time or periodic software scans or hacking attempts in order to find vulnerabilities in a technical and logical perimeter.
It generally does not assess security throughout the network, nor does it accurately reflect personnel-related exposures due to disgruntled employees, social engineering, etc.
An important factor, specific to MSS, is that outsourcing network security hands over critical control of the company's infrastructure to an outside party, the MSSP, whilst not relieving the ultimate responsibility for errors.
Further, with the increase in the participation of leading IT companies worldwide, the end user enterprises are gaining confidence in outsourcing the IT security.
Fees are normally highly affordable to reflect financial constraints, and are charged every month at a flat rate to ensure predictability of costs.
Among different prominent players, Managed Security Service provider observe the growing need to combat increasingly complicated and intended attacks.
In response, these vendors are busy enhancing the sophistication of their solution, in many cases winning over other security expert to expand their portfolio.
Besides this increasing regulatory compliance associated with the protection of citizen's data worldwide, is likely to stimulate enterprises to ensure a high data-security level.
To maintain a competitive edge, MSS vendors are focusing more and more on refining their product offering of technologies deployed at clients.
Another crucial factor of profitability remains the capability to lower the cost yet generate more revenue by avoiding the deployment of additional tools.