MSSPs all deal with a crushing number of alerts daily – but how are the most successful partners managing the influx? The  MSSP  industry has seen a significant increase in attacks on MSP and  MSSP partners  this year. This has led to several new attacks on everything from  RMM tools  to applications. We all deal with a crushing number of alerts daily – so how are the most successful partners managing this? Start with the  kill chain . The most popular framework today is the  MITRE  attack framework. If you can look at your alerts through this lens, you can begin to reduce your  SOC  teams’ workload significantly. Start with the reconnaissance stage. Why start there? Because if you can cut off the connections before the attackers gain a foothold, you can eliminate much of the hunting and clean-up your team is doing today. A great example is  Log4j . This has been a big nuisance for the last month or so. Many attackers ar...

Security can be intimidating for  MSP partners  making the transition to  MSSP .  The industry makes it sound too complex and capital intensive to cross the chasm.  We believe that there are logical, cost-effective steps you can take to get more of your customers to purchase security and provide better profitability. MSP partners  have built long-term relationships with their clients.  Outsourcing security brings a third company into that mix.  In many cases, the  MDR  service they provide is expensive.  The result is that even if you take this approach, only a small percentage of your customers will choose to purchase it.  In the worst case, the customer may gravitate toward the other provider. To help MSP partners,  Stellar Cyber  has built the Jumpstart Program.  There are five simple steps you can follow to leverage the  Open XDR  Platform: Base – 8×5 Security Monitoring Bronze – 24×7 Security Monit...