MSSPs provide businesses with security services to protect them against cyber threats. Security services bring people, processes, and technology together. Cyber security monitoring and management services such as blocking malware and spam, vulnerability scanning, intrusion detection, firewalls, and virtual private network management are some of the capabilities provided by MSSPs. MSSPs can deliver services remotely, on-premises, or in a hybrid model.

The Mean Time To Detect (or MTTD) is the average time between the emergence of an issue and its detection. It measures how effectively the security team discovers an incident and how agile the companies are in resolving them. It quantifies the time required to fix the issue. MTTD numbers with lower values indicate that effective monitoring and detection procedures are in place. The shorter the MTTD, the higher its likelihood of effectively mitigating an incident.

MTTR is the average time between discovering a cyber attack or an alert and its remediation by your security team. Or, to put it more simply, it is the length of time it takes an organization to neutralize a detected threat, vulnerability, or failure. Over a prolonged period, inadequate performance in this metric can result in an increased cost of breach or system unavailability.

Threat intelligence or cyber threat intelligence is the information an organization uses to comprehend the risks threatening them. This information—gleaned from historical data, estimates, and evidence—seeks to understand the threat actor’s motives and behavior. It helps companies proactively plan for, detect, and prevent cyber attacks. Threat intelligence feeds aid this process by detecting common indications of compromise (IOC) and advising preventative measures.

Cyber Security analytics collect, analyze, and mitigate cyber security threats through data analysis. It uses software, algorithms, and analytics to identify IT system risks. By revealing anomalous activities before an actual attack occurs, cyber security analytics can safeguard a business against potentially expensive data breaches and cyberattacks. The tools allow you to detect threats like external malware, targeted attacks, and malicious insiders before they can affect your infrastructure, data assets, or bottom line.