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What is a Managed Security Service Provider? MSSPs Explained

eSecurity Planet

History of MSSPs As internet service providers (ISPs) and telecommunications companies (telecoms) began offering commercial access to the internet in the late 1990s, they began to also offer firewall appliances and associated managed services. Outsourcing U.S. companies may trust U.S.

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What Is Encryption? Definition, How it Works, & Examples

eSecurity Planet

NIST continues to encourage the development of lightweight cryptography that can be used in constrained environments and researchers also continue to explore new types of hardware (microchips, architecture, etc.) In each of these cases, the cracked encryption can lead to leaked data, but the nature of the risk remains distinct.

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Security is Shifting to a Unified Cloud Edge

McAfee

And those cloud services are hosting an ever-increasing amount of sensitive data—according to our 2019 Cloud Adoption and Risk Report, the number of files with sensitive data shared in the cloud has increased 53% year over year. Figure 1: Simplified architecture for Unified Cloud Edge. And they must be able to do so simply.

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Managed IT Service Providers (MSPs): A Fast Way to Secure IT

eSecurity Planet

Quality MSPs easily deliver the additional IT capability for surges and, more importantly, can easily accommodate decreases in demand without the risk of layoffs or losing experienced employees. An MSP knows that if they betray their customer’s trust, they risk having their reputation actively attacked by the burned customer.

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Managed IT Service Providers (MSPs): A Fast Way to Secure IT

eSecurity Planet

Quality MSPs easily deliver the additional IT capability for surges and, more importantly, can easily accommodate decreases in demand without the risk of layoffs or losing experienced employees. An MSP knows that if they betray their customer’s trust, they risk having their reputation actively attacked by the burned customer.