For small to medium sized businesses (SMBs), cybersecurity is a costly, yet necessary, affair. Unfortunately, many SMBs lack the resources, expertise, and funds to invest in a sufficient cybersecurity or IT plan. This is where an MSP comes in. A Managed Service Provider (MSP) provides tools and services to an organization that would otherwise be unattainable for the business individually.
If your business is considering investing in an MSP, consider these benefits:
Managed Services Reduce Costs
Enlisting the help of an MSP can greatly reduce the cost of what your organization would have to spend on an internal IT team. With the aid of an MSP, your organization will receive the benefits of a full IT and security team at a fraction of what it would cost to hire one internal employee. For businesses that already have an IT staff, MSPs are able to come alongside your existing staff and offer co-managed support. Additionally, MSPs can provide firewall, monitoring, vulnerability, and incident response tools as part of their stack. This means that your organization will not have to purchase these applications individually and can utilize those funds elsewhere.
Managed Services Reduce Downtime
In the event that your network goes down or an unexpected disaster occurs, an MSP is able to respond quickly and efficiently to get your organization back online as soon as possible. This includes backing up any lost or corrupted data, responding to data breaches or intrusions, and troubleshooting any connectivity issues. Downtime can also be costly, as your employees aren't able to complete their tasks, access network resources, or communicate with one another. By drastically reducing downtime, your business is saving money and working more efficiently.
Managed Services Offer Increased Security
With the help of an MSP your organization is able to take a proactive approach to cybersecurity that prioritizes detection and prevention rather than responding to events as they happen. Using the tools and applications available to them, MSPs are able to detect and respond to threats before they turn into full-scale attacks. MSPs also provide 24/7 monitoring to ensure that your system is always being watched even during the off hour. In the event that a cyber threat emerges, or an outage occurs, your MSP is able to respond in a timely manner. Your MSP also offers increased cloud security and can help you establish secure cloud policies that are scalable and flexible to your current business model. Additionally, your MSP should be able to provide guidance on achieving and maintaining compliance to ensure your policies are in line with regulatory requirements.
CorpInfoTech, Managed Services at its Best
Corporate Information Technologies (CorpInfoTech) is a managed service provider located in Charlotte, NC that offers premier IT and cybersecurity service's Charlotte to SMBs. Since 1997, CorpInfoTech has served the small-medium sized businesses of Charlotte and beyond by offering fully or co-managed services that are uniquely tailored to our client's needs.
Our services include firewall management, vulnerability management, security and risk assessments, managed compliance and more! In order to establish a baseline for where an organizations current security posture lies, a comprehensive security assessment is required. This assessment provides customers with both the problem and solution to their security needs. From here, CorpInfoTech develops a plan to remediate and then maintain security across the entire organization.
To learn more about how CorpInfoTech can benefit your organization, contact us today!
CorpInfoTech (Corporate Information Technologies) provides small to mid-market organizations with expert I.T. services, including security assessment, cybersecurity penetration tests, managed services (MSP), firewall management, and vulnerability management. CorpInfoTech can help organizations, quantify, create, refine, and mitigate the risks presented by business threatening disasters in whatever form they may be disguised.
