by Joe Panettieri – Mar 31, 2022
Amazon Web Providers has actually moved the AWS re: Inforce 2022 cybersecurity conference to July in Boston. Earlier reports recommended the occasion was set for June 2022 in Houston. Amazon states the conference will focus on cloud security, compliance, identity and privacy.
AWS re: Inforce 2022 could supply a timely truth look for MSSPs that concentrate on public cloud security services. Undoubtedly, the cloud giant in August 2021 unveiled a Level 1 MSSP Competency for AWS Partners that offer security and monitoring as a fully managed service. Multiple Top 250 MSSPsand Leading 40 MDR (managed detection and action) company earned the competency at launch-time.
It’s a winner many of those MSSPs will be on-hand for the AWS re: Inforce 2022 conference. No doubt, AWS is likewise looking for to certify more MSSPs to safeguard cloud workloads. Company that have an interest in the competency can focus on such managed security service domains as:
- Application security
- Cloud security finest practices and compliance
- Host and endpoint security
- Network security
- Hazard detection and reaction
- Vulnerability management
Public Cloud Security and MSSPs
Both Amazon Web Providersand Microsoft Azurehave actually been working hard to engage and train MSSPs. And there are anecdotal signs that Google Cloudlikewise prepares to open its arms to MSSPs.
Why are cloud suppliers engaging MSSPs? The short response involves end-customers– a lot of whom are (1) brief on cyber skill and (2) poorly equipped to effectively configure and preserve public cloud services.
Undoubtedly, 90 percent of companies are vulnerable to security breaches due to cloud misconfigurations, according to the “2021 Cloud Security Report: Cloud Setup Risks Exposed” from application lifecycle security business Aqua Security.
As an outcome, end consumers are pursuing MSSP and MSP partnerships to deal with such areas as cloud facilities entitlement management (CIEM) and cloud security posture management (CSPM).
Indeed, annual CSPM spending will reach $9 billion by 2026, up from $4 billion in 2020, according to Markets and Markets. That’s a 14.4 percent substance annual development rate.
On a related note, 41 percent of our Leading 250 MSSP survey participantsalready offer CSPM to their end customers, MSSP Alert research found in September 2021.
AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud: Engaging MSSPs
Eager to alleviate cloud security dangers, the major cloud suppliers continue to more closely engage MSSPs in numerous ways.
For example, Microsoft continues to strongly broaden MISA– the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association. MISA is designed to drive software application integrations and interactions in between MSSPs and ISVs (independent software application vendors) and Microsoft Azure Sentinelfor cloud=based SIEM, to name a few locations of chance.
Since August 2021, MISA had 67 MSSP membersthat supported 165 managed security services since August 2021. Moreover, MISA reported that 176 ISVs delivered 259 integrations since July 2021.
Rather comparable to MISA, Amazon Web Solutions(AWS) in August 2021 presented the Level 1 MSSP Proficiency for AWS Partnersas it tries to promote new partnerships with MSSPs and ISVs. AWS Partners can earn this proficiency to deliver AWS security and tracking as a fully managed service.
Likewise, Google Cloud acquired Siemplifyin January 2022 and Mandiantin March 2022. The Siemplify company has MSSP partner experience— which might bode well for Google as the company aims to counter AWS and Microsoft Azure in the cloud security partner community. In plain contrast, Mandiant has actually been known to both compete and work together with MSSPs and cybersecurity consulting companies– specifically in the Event Action (IR) market.
Next up, we’ll be enjoying to see what new MSSP messages AWS shares throughout the re: Inforce 2022 conference.
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