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Major SIs, IT providers, and carriers have dramatically increased their investment and interest in managed security services, and security vendors are rapidly introducing new products. There is growing demand from enterprise customers that struggle with growing security threats and breaches, and overall risk. Ovum reviewed six carriers' global managed security services portfolios with the aim of providing insight into managed security services trends, focusing on telco-led managed security service provider (MSSP) challenges and opportunities.
Global carriers have offered managed security services for many years, and historically, these services have been very network-centric. Carriers started with security services by way of the network (e.g., WAN and Internet service security), and then added more security services as they became significant ISPs. Managed security services have expanded into many of the carriers' different service areas, including private networks, Internet, mobile, and web services, and are now expanding into many of their new cloud-based and...