by Ron Samson | | Email Security, Managed Security, Network Security
Buying a managed security service when you already own a SIEM, EDR, firewall stack, identity platform, and vulnerability scanner is fundamentally different from buying a bundled technology-and-service package. The question is not, “Which provider has the best tools?”...
by Ron Samson | | Email Security, Managed Security, Network Security
Compliance Monitoring Is Not the Same as Security Monitoring Security monitoring often begins as a compliance project: collect logs, retain them for a prescribed period, generate reports, and show an auditor that controls exist. That work matters. It also creates a...
by Ron Samson | | Email Security, Managed Security, Network Security
Alert Fatigue Is an Operations Problem, Not a Tolerance Problem Security teams do not miss threats because they lack alerts. They miss threats because urgent signals are buried under repetitive, low context, or poorly prioritized noise. When analysts receive hundreds...
by Ron Samson | | Email Security, Managed Security, Network Security
A SIEM can collect every firewall event, identity record, endpoint alert, cloud audit trail, and application log in the business—and still fail to improve security. The gap is rarely log volume. It is tuning: the discipline of deciding which events matter, how they...
by Ron Samson | | Email Security, Managed Security, Network Security
Compliance monitoring is not the same as building a SOC For many security and IT leaders, audit readiness has become the practical business case for better monitoring. Cyber insurance questionnaires, customer security reviews, PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and the...
by Ron Samson | | Email Security, Managed Security, Network Security
How to evaluate an MSSP before the contract becomes your operating model Choosing an MSSP is not a software purchase. It is a decision about who will watch your environment at 2 a.m., challenge noisy detections, explain risk to auditors, and help your team respond...
