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Running head: INVESTING IN SECURITY AS A SERVICE 1

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Investing in security as a service

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Today many businesses and individuals consume huge amount of on demand services which are expected to accessed each and every time and ensuring to leave other complicated services such as software upgrading and other software improvements to experts. Due to current changes in the security threats experienced today with organization faced with a lot of shape-shifting organizations are currently adapting security as service to avoid being stack when it comes to updating their security tools. “Security as a service (SECaaS) is an outsourced service wherein an outside company handles and manages your security” (Digital guardian blog, 2018).

For business to stay “stay ahead of the threats, they need the most cutting-edge solutions” which comes with security as a service (Byrne, 2018).

Investing in security as a service presents itself as an important investment especially in the modern era where threats to business has become so rampant. Adapting ‘’security as a service (SECaaS) organizations are able to make the latest updates available instantly” (Byrne, 2018). Through this organizations are able to get better and flexible security offerings that are able to meet the needs of the customers (Byrne, 2018). Through this organizations are able to shift to a more reactive security landscape and thus avoiding using their budgets on updating their systems.

Through adapting security as a service organizations are able to enjoy a shorter time to value as well as reduced upfront costs as compared to when using the traditional means. Through adapting “SECaaS organizations are able to eliminate the need for investment in capital assets and constant physical maintenance of aging infrastructure” (Byrne, 2018).

One of the challenges that organizations are facing today in regard to securing there premises is lack of better skills and talent. Today, many organization face a large security skill gap which makes them unable to fully protect their resources (Byrne, 2018). Through adapting security as a service organization will be able to enjoy high skilled security levels and thus making it possible for the in house IT professionals to concentrate and spend most of time in critical business operations. Most critical security operations are left to be managed by the SECaaS which includes configuration of the software, disaster recovery as well as all maintance services and thus making it possible for organizations to effectively make use and prioritize their limited resources and time to other important tasks other than security (Digital guardian blog, 2018).

With the current changes in the security landscape where there is increased security threat with cyber security becoming an ever evolving battles especially with increased and sophisticated means which are very different from the past where it was possible to switch security and leave it work (Byrne, 2018). Organizations are therefore required to hire very well talented individuals which may be expensive for an organization. This brings the idea of security as a service the only option for many organizations to adapt seeking services of security as a service which provides better security services to organizations.

In summary, investing in security as a service is a very attractive idea for organization today. Through investing in SECaaS organizations are able to get update security services which would have coasted an organization a lot of resources especially when it comes to maintenance and upgrading especially with the current changing threats. Also, organizations are able to get best services and skills which are not easy to get today where are limited skills.

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Byrne, L. (2018) SECaaS is where it's at: Why security-as-a-Service is the next big thing. (2018, February 9). Security Intelligence. https://securityintelligence.com/navigate-the-shifting-threat-landscape-with-security-as-a-service/

Hinton, H. (n.d.). Security and compliance. Cyber Security and Threats, 102-131. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5634-3.ch007

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Digital guardian blog, (2018). What is security as a service? A definition of SECaaS, benefits, examples, and more. (2018, December 5). Digital Guardian. https://digitalguardian.com/blog/what-security-service-definition-secaas-benefits-examples-and-more