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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. assets (endpoints, servers, IoT, routers, etc.), Outsourcing U.S. companies may trust U.S.

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APT trends report Q1 2021

SecureList

On February 24, the National Security Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) publicly warned that a threat actor had exploited a national documents circulation system (SEI EB) to distribute malicious documents to Ukrainian public authorities.

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