CFH #1 – Chris McCurdy

Companies must communicate clear expectations when contracting with pentesters, red teams and vulnerability hunters in order to set key ground rules for what data and systems can be accessed, what’s off limits and who is responsible if something breaks. Of course, if you set too many restrictions and parameters, then how do you really know if you’re safe from malicious hackers, who of course don’t play by the rules?

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If you were to ask most companies right now, "Why you have you hired an MSP?" the answer probably would sound something like: “Resources are strained. Talented is limited. So we’re outsourcing certain security functions to a firm that has the built-in capabilities to manage this for us.” But is the MSSP model becoming more than a convenient economics and personnel decision? Is this actually becoming a go-to "must have" for all organizations -- the next logical evolution in the industry’s approach to solving security?

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