Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) Market News: 15 November 2023


Each business day, MSSP Alert delivers a quick lineup of news, analysis and chatter from across the managed security services provider ecosystem.

  • The Content: Written for MSSPs and MSPs; threat hunters; security operations center as a service (SOCaaS); managed detection and response (MDR) and eXtended detection and response (XDR) providers; and those who partner with such companies.
  • Frequency and Format: Every business morning. Typically, one or two sentences for each item below.
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Today’s MSSP, MSP, MDR, XDR and Cybersecurity Market News

1. Security Partnership: Cloud Range, a cyber range-as-a-service solution provider, is partnering with Washington Technology Solutions (WaTech) to engage in incident response training to enhance the state of Washington’s cyber readiness and prepare practitioners to detect and remediate threats. WaTech operates the state’s core technology services, providing strategic and comprehensive information security to protect state networks from increasing cyber threats while serving state agencies, county, city and tribal governments, and public-benefit nonprofits.

2. Zero Trust Security Certification: The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), an organization dedicated to defining standards, certifications and best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment, is offering the Certificate of Competence in Zero Trust (CCZT). CSA created the CCZT to help security professionals build knowledge to drive the definition, implementation and management of zero trust.

3. Leadership Move: Adlumin, a managed detection and response (MDR) provider, has hired Jessvin Thomas as its first chief product officer. With more than two decades of cybersecurity experience at organizations, including Barracuda Networks, Optiv and Blackstone Group, Thomas will lead Adlumin’s product and services teams to continue developing innovative offerings that solve critical security needs.

4. New Security Center Debuts: Living Security, a specialist in human risk management, has launched the Human Risk Operations Center (HROC), fueled by Living Security’s Unify Platform….

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