Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) play a crucial role in safeguarding organizations from an increasingly complex threat landscape.
Yet, many MSSPs face significant struggles when it comes to cybersecurity detection and response. From high false alarm rates to resource constraints, these challenges can hinder their ability to provide effective security services to their customers.
The Unexpected Breach: A Lesson in Comprehensive Protection
Picture this: You’re an MSSP, and one of your customers faces a brand-new, stealthy cyberattack. The attack leverages a highly evasive method that bypasses the EDR you’ve deployed and managed, successfully evading your SOC analysts and going undetected. In this very real scenario, a single unprotected device becomes your weak link.
This single access point can allow attackers to move laterally, encrypt critical data, and compromise the entire network. The result? Not only does your customer suffer operational and reputational damage, but your credibility as their trusted security partner also takes a significant hit.
In recent years breach liability has been under the microscope. Just last year, a small MSP in California was sued by a small law firm (and paying customer) after the firm was hit with a ransomware attack that took its systems offline. The lawsuit is the first of its kind and puts a spotlight on whether MSPs and MSSPs can be found liable if their customers suffer a cyberattack.
Data suggests that there are around 4,000 ransomware attacks per day—and with attackers using increasingly unsophisticated and undetectable techniques to deliver malware, MSSPs and their customers face increased risk of successful breach events.
Why MSSPs Struggle with Detection and Response
As an MSSP, you rely on a security stack that includes best-in-breed detection and response technology, and highly trained analysts to manage it. Yet you and your team may find yourself struggling with detection and response for several reasons:
1. Evolving Threat Landscape
Cyber threats are becoming more sophisticated, with adversaries leveraging AI and advanced techniques to bypass traditional defenses. Threat actors continuously adapt their methods, making it difficult for MSSPs to stay ahead.
2. High False-Positive Rates
Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and other security tools often generate numerous false positives due to software bugs, corrupt data, or misconfigurations. These false alarms create noise, overwhelming analysts and increasing the risk of overlooking real threats.
3. Supply Chain Vulnerabilities
MSSPs themselves are prime targets for supply chain attacks, where adversaries infiltrate third-party vendors to compromise multiple organizations. Incidents like SolarWinds have demonstrated how supply chain vulnerabilities can have far-reaching consequences.
4. Resource Constraints
Many MSSPs, particularly those serving SMBs, struggle with talent shortages and budget limitations. These constraints impact their ability to deploy advanced detection and response mechanisms effectively.
Why Preemptive Cyber Defense is a Strategic Imperative for MSSPs
Preemptive cyber defense is a proactive security strategy that focuses on neutralizing threats before they can execute, rather than relying solely on detection and response after an attack has already begun.
Unlike traditional detection and response-based approaches that depend on identifying known attack signatures or behavioral patterns, preemptive defense disrupts threats at the earliest stages—blocking exploits, preventing zero-day attacks, and eliminating ransomware before it can encrypt data.
For MSSPs, adopting a preemptive cyber defense model is essential to reducing operational burden, minimizing false positives, and enhancing customer protection. By integrating preemptive technologies like Morphisec’s pioneering Automated Moving Target Defense (AMTD), MSSPs can provide customers with an advanced security posture that requires less overhead, improves response times, and ensures a stronger, more resilient defense against today’s most sophisticated cyber threats.
Morphisec’s Anti-Ransomware Assurance Suite provides multi-layered protection to all endpoints to proactively prevent 100% of ransomware attacks at the endpoint. This offers several other advantages including:
1. Eliminating the Weakest Link — Security isn’t just about individual components—it’s about the strength of the entire chain. Deploying Morphisec across all endpoints ensures no vulnerabilities are left unprotected. Partial deployment creates attack entry points, which threat actors actively seek out. Full deployment ensures every endpoint is secured, eliminating these opportunities.
2. Consistent, Predictable Defense — Full deployment guarantees uniform security policies, streamlined management, and consistent threat intelligence across the entire environment. This approach simplifies operations and enhances resilience against evolving threats.
3. Long-Term Cost Savings— While deploying security across all endpoints may increase upfront costs, the financial impact of a breach—including downtime, remediation, legal penalties, and reputational damage—far outweighs these initial investments. A prevention-first approach mitigates these risks, ensuring long-term security.
4. Enhanced Customer Trust and Satisfaction — Today’s cybersecurity buyers understand that partial protection is no protection at all. Offering a solution that covers 100% of their Windows endpoints and servers demonstrates a commitment to proactive security, building trust and strengthening customer relationships.
5. Addressing Regulatory Compliance Needs — Industries such as healthcare and finance require comprehensive endpoint protection to comply with regulations like HIPAA and PCI DSS. Full deployment ensures compliance and shields both clients and MSSPs from regulatory penalties.
6. Resilient Backup and Disaster Recovery Plans — Even with strong prevention measures, cyberattacks can still occur. Full deployment ensures advanced tools like Morphisec’s Anti-Ransomware Assurance Suite can prevent encryption and exfiltration while enabling rapid recovery.
7. Comprehensive, Lifecycle Anti-Ransomware Protection — Threat actors exploit gaps in security across different stages of an attack. Morphisec’s full deployment protects at multiple stages and throughout the attack lifecycle:
- Pre-Execution: Identifies and mitigates vulnerabilities before attackers exploit them.
- During Execution: Neutralizes ransomware in real-time, preventing encryption and credential theft.
- Post-Execution: Supports recovery with ransomware response capabilities, including encrypted data restoration and forensic assessments.
The Morphisec Advantage: Defense in Depth
For MSSPs, Morphisec isn’t just an add-on—it’s the critical layer that fortifies traditional EDR solutions. By preventing unknown, evasive attacks before execution, Morphisec neutralizes even the most sophisticated threats. For MSSPs, full deployment represents an investment in resilience, consistency, and customer loyalty.
Integrating Morphisec’s solutions into your managed services portfolio offers a proactive, prevention-first approach to cybersecurity, ensuring comprehensive protection against sophisticated threats with advanced tools to enhance your security offerings:
- Automated Moving Target Defense (AMTD): This pioneering technology stops ransomware, supply chain attacks, zero-days, fileless, and other undetectable attacks in-memory at runtime, effectively neutralizing threats before they can execute.
- Adaptive Exposure Management: Elevate your customers’ security posture by prioritizing vulnerabilities, automating the assessment of security controls, identifying high-risk software, and addressing security misconfigurations. This proactive approach reduces the attack surface and enhances overall resilience.
- Infiltration Protection: By continually changing the attack surface, Morphisec makes it significantly harder for attackers to exploit vulnerabilities, effectively preventing ransomware early in the attack chain.
With Morphisec you get:
- Assurance: Gain peace of mind with continuous protection that ensures uninterrupted cybersecurity defense, delivering comprehensive coverage against a wide range of threats, including those undetectable by traditional security solutions.
- Reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): Minimize the need for additional staffing and reduce financial impact by preventing threats early. Morphisec’s ultra-lightweight agent ensures negligible performance impact and requires minimal maintenance.
- Enhanced Visibility: Continuous monitoring provides real-time insights into vulnerabilities, shadow IT, and high-risk software. Risk-based prioritization helps identify and address the most critical security issues efficiently.
- Defense-in-Depth: Augment existing security measures with an additional preventive layer that significantly lowers the number of false positives, reducing analyst fatigue and improving response times.
- Improved Cybersecurity Posture: Enhance audit scores, support compliance initiatives, and potentially reduce cyber insurance premiums. Proactive security measures eliminate attack dwell time and support recovery efforts.
- Operational Readiness: Free up resources for critical tasks by minimizing routine patching requirements. System hardening and virtual patching allow teams to focus on strategic initiatives rather than constant maintenance.
Revolutionize Your Service Offerings with Unparalleled Protection
Deploying Morphisec across all Windows endpoints and servers is not just about ticking a compliance box—it’s about building an impenetrable security fortress. In today’s threat landscape, leaving even a single endpoint unprotected is a risk no organization (and their trusted MSSP) can afford to take. Full deployment ensures every asset is defended, every vulnerability is addressed, and every client has peace of mind knowing their environment is fully secure.
For MSSPs looking to strengthen their cybersecurity detection and response capabilities, comprehensive protection is not just an option—it’s a necessity. Book a customized demo today and see how Morphisec can help you and your team close gaps and strengthen security strategy across your customer base.
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