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Case Study: MSP / MSSP

How a Billion-Dollar MSP Added Independent Penetration Testing to Its Portfolio

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Overview

A billion-dollar managed service provider (“MSP”) with a large customer base wants to extend its service portfolio to include security assessments and penetration tests. However, it cannot perform these services directly due to potential conflict of interest that arises from self-assessing.

industry

Managed Services

Challenges

Providing managed security services to the MSP’s customer base while avoiding a conflict of interest.

How STACKTITAN Helped

STACKTITAN established a named partnership with the MSP, offering its full suite of security services as an extension of the MSP's extensive portfolio, which included:

  • Web and mobile application penetration testing
  • Source code analysis / reverse-engineering
  • Network Penetration Testing
  • Cloud security assessments
  • Social engineering
  • Wireless penetration testing

Furthermore, STACKTITAN performed penetration testing services directly for the MSP, to evaluate the security of its supporting architecture and remote management utilities.

30

Penetration assessments

>3

Years of partnership

100%

Complete impartiality

$$$

Increased revenue

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Solution

Establish a named partnership through which the MSP refers its customers for unbiased, 3rd party security services.

Results

STACKTITAN’s service portfolio was included in the catalog of the MSP’s capabilities, allowing its customers to perform recurring or ad-hoc assessments and penetration tests of their managed environments while avoiding a conflict of interest.

Next Steps

Recurring assessments can be used to track trends, to meet regulatory & cyber insurance requirements, and proactively identify risk in a landscape of evolving threats.

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