Is your in-house IT team overburdened? Is your business looking for specialized IT skillsets that aren’t part of your employee skills? Or perhaps you need specialized security services to make your business MISS security compliant as is required by the law? This is where managed services could be invaluable to you.
The role of managed service providers isn’t to replace your existing teams or run a system as a service above and over you. These services can be treated as augmentative, extended arms of your business’ IT and security needs. You can leverage their technical prowess and expertise for continuous incident monitoring, security, collaboration, etc. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week throughout the year to suit your needs.
Managed Services refers to third-party vendors who provide IT security and other services to manage your IT division end-to-end.
With the advent of the remote working culture, say, your business decides to promote a hybrid work culture with remote working. How would you go about implementing it? What collaboration strategies, tools, and techniques would you use to ensure the safety of your business’ shared emails, files, audios, etc.?
Or, say, you want to migrate from the age-old, risky, unreliable, environment-unfriendly on-premise data centers to a cloud. How would you go about with the migration? How would you ensure optimal use of the cloud resources? How would you set up cloud security so that hackers don’t walk away with all your stored data?
If you don’t have all the answers or even if you’re completely lost, that’s unsurprising. These are just a few of the things modern businesses are expected to be equipped with.
Let’s not even get to the importance of data protection, cybersecurity, or adherence to minimum information security standards (MISS Security). Such services, and many more, tailor-made to suit your business needs, are exactly what managed security services are all about.
You can outsource these services to third-party vendors, also known as MSSPs, short for Managed Security Services Providers. A good managed services provider would offer even more than an MSSP, because their offerings could help your business scale up by being your mentor with the complete IT expertise they’d bring.
Like many non-IT firms, you could simply hire them and forget about it, trusting them to do their job well. Remember, you can’t just trust anyone for your data security. If you’re looking for a reliable, trustworthy MSP, Northriver IT can be your answer. You can lean on Northriver as one of the industry-leading MSPs, a complete IT solution from cloud migration and scaling to cybersecurity and collaboration.