Fox-IT Looks for Managed Security Partners in U.S.

With the launch of a Cyberthreat Management Platform at the RSA 2015 conference today Fox-IT is now looking for managed security service provider (MSSP) partners in the United States.

With over 200 cyber security experts on its staff, Fox-IT has emerged as a leading provider of IT security services in Europe. Now the company wants to extend its operations into the United States. following the introduction of an IT security platform that MSSPs can either host on a cloud themselves or deploy on the premises of their customers.

Pim Volkers, executive vice president of Fox-IT, said the Cyberthreat Management Platform combines all the IT security technologies into a single software platform Fox-IT has developed since it first started out as a solution provider in the IT security channel.

From a security prospective the thing that distinguishes Fox-IT most, said Volkers, is the ability to turn an unknown threat into an identified known threat leveraging heuristics analytics and sensors that are deployed around the world.

The Cyberthreat Management Platform itself consists of a portal through which MSSPs can either make their security professionals expertise available or leverage the expertise of Fox-IT. In addition, Fox-IT also makes available endpoint and network module to detect and mitigate threats as well as providing access to a threat intelligence service. Also available is security information event management (SIEM) software and access to decoy servers and endpoints that are used to gather security intelligence.

Volkers says the Cyberthreat Management Platform is specifically designed to be deployed in a modular fashion than enables MSSPs to determine how much software they want to deploy on their own data centers, at their customers’ facilities or using existing Fox-IT infrastructure. No matter what option is employed today, Volkers says that MSSPs can reconfigure their deployments as they see fit any time in the future.

As both the volume and complexity of the attacks being launched by digital criminals continues to increase, IT organizations are looking for external IT security expertise more than ever. The challenge, of course, is that building a platform to manage IT security is from a capital expense perspective no small undertaking. By relying on a software platform that has already been created by an MSSP that has extensive capabilities in the IT security space the cost of entry for being an MSSP just potentially got a whole lot less for solution providers that otherwise would not be able to afford provide this level of IT security service.