Managed service providers (MSPs) and managed security service providers (MSSPs) are under increasing pressure to deliver strong cybersecurity outcomes in a landscape marked by rising threats and evolving compliance requirements. At the same time, clients want better protection without managing cybersecurity themselves. Service providers must balance these growing demands with the need to work efficiently, deliver consistent results, and scale their offerings.
If you crank up the Wayback Machine and load the websites of today's biggest managed security service providers (MSSPs), you'll get a neat reminder of a time before the huge proliferation in services that we see today. Most providers offered only a handful of services then, compared to the dozens they do now. If that sounds like progress, I'm not so sure.