Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP)

Managed Security Service Provider

Developing and maintaining an effective cyber security posture can be a challenge. Time, resources, and cybersecurity expertise are required to implement a successful strategy.

Sapphire’s Managed Security Services (MSS) are designed for you to take a proactive approach in enhancing your organisation’s cyber security.

Our UK-based SOC analysts combine expertise with the latest threat intelligence and industry-leading technologies to protect, detect, and assist in the remediation of security threats.

Therefore, our customers are able to demonstrate their return on investment via the reduction of the overheads associated with developing and managing an in-house Security Operations Centre (SOC).

To learn more about the five key elements when looking for a managed security service provider, check out our blog post ‘Security Operations Centre Best Practices’.

Benefit from Sapphire’s MSSP cross sector expertise

Sapphire has experience working with the public and private sectors, delivering a range of managed services, including Managed Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), Vulnerability Management and Security Awareness Training.

Our expert security analysts integrate these managed services with our threat intelligence feeds to provide our customers with an accurate picture of their organisations’ cybersecurity as well as customised reporting that is suited to their business needs.

Our managed security service includes:

UK based Security Operations Centre (SOC)
Tier 3 UK Datacentre, IL2 and IL3 Compliant
Fully Managed 24x7x365 by Skilled Security Analysts
Incident Assessment / Management (including forensics)
Pro-Active Threat Detection and Threat Hunting

Sapphire’s approach

Expertise & Knowledge

Sapphire’s analysts are highly skilled and experienced security professionals. Analysts that focus on both threat intelligence and analysis integrate the two disciplines to offer an expert response to security events. This approach means that customers benefit from quick answers to complex security events, identifying gaps and areas of concern reducing time to detect threats and threat dwell time.

Dynamic Reporting – Tailored to Your Businesses Needs

We provide detailed, actionable reporting based on your organisation’s individual needs, focusing on valuable, relevant security information that will improve the security of your organisation. We provide commentary throughout our reporting packs, adding perspective and enabling further knowledge share.

A Consultative Approach

Sapphire Managed Services can become an extension of your security teams. Sapphire’s analysts host monthly consultations, providing opportunities to delve further into our cyber security events and findings relevant to your organisation.

Managed Security Service: Why Sapphire

Managed Security Operations Centre (SOC)

Sapphire’s Security Operations Centre (SOC) combines expert analysts, premium threat intelligence and leading technologies, delivering a unified view of security across our client’s estate.

This, coupled with continual monitoring, enhanced reporting, and the opportunity to take advantage of our analyst’s expertise through regular consultations, means that Sapphire is best placed to protect organisations from cyber threats.

Our managed services are delivered from our UK-based SOC, 24x7x365.

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SIEMaaS

Sapphire’s Managed Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)combines leading information and event management technology with the experience and expertise of our SOC analysts, delivering the best security monitoring available today helping organisations reduce exposure to cybersecurity threats.

The ability to reduce threat dwell time minimises exposure to existing cyber threats. This coupled with a significantly improved Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Respond (MTTR) means that organisations benefit from improved operational efficiencies and lower costs associated with cyber security incidents.

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Managed Vulnerability Management

Vulnerability Management analyses the entire environment, detecting risk to exploitation across datacentres, remote workers, cloud and the corporate network. Sapphire works in close partnership with clients to provide them with complete visibility of the vulnerability landscape, enabling them to identify, prioritise and remediate vulnerabilities. We detect and prioritise exploitable vulnerabilities so customers can quickly identify risk. Our Vulnerability Management service negates the need for the client to carry out their assessments.

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Managed Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

Sapphire Managed EDR protects and analyses all known and unknown cyber threats. Threat data is enriched with industry-leading threat intelligence, offering a deeper context and enables our analysts to detect threats more efficiently. We provide customers with 24×7 visibility of malicious attacks on all endpoints. The service includes full remote remediation to ensure that clients’ endpoint devices are secured.

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Managed Security Awareness Training

Often the most effective form of defence against cyberattacks is the people in the organisation. Developing and maintaining a security awareness programme can empower your employees to help to defend your organisation against phishing and social engineering attacks. Sapphire’s Managed Security Awareness Training provides engaging educational content delivered via our cloud platform as part of a sustained training and awareness programme, combined with ongoing testing with regular phishing assessments. Training topics covered include data security, phishing, sensitive data handling and more.

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Managed Threat Intelligence

Sapphire’s Managed Threat Intelligence (TI) Service monitors, investigates, alerts, and offers remediation against existing or newly emerging threats that can negatively impact any business, brand, or individual. Our service provides operational, brand and vulnerability intelligence to reduce an organisation’s exposure to the activities of cybercriminals.

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

1. What is MSP vs MSSP?

A Managed Service Provider (MSP) is an organisation that delivers a managed services for IT Infrastructure. Services focus on networks, endpoints and infrastructure. Managed Security Service Providers (MSSP) deliver managed security services to protect an organisation from internal and external cyber threats.

2. What is the difference between a SOC and a SIEM?

Security Information & Event Management (SIEM) collects log data from various sources and analyses it to detect abnormal or malicious behaviour, or cyber-attacks. A Security Operations Centre (SOC) consists of a team of security experts who will utilise technologies such as a SIEM to detect, analyse and respond to new and emerging cyber security incidents.