SOC-as-a-Service and Why It’s Critical for SMBs

By: Corey Kerns, GreatAmerica: Cyber-attacks and threats to cybersecurity are nothing new, but the vulnerability seems to loom larger with each passing week. Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are typically hit the hardest; per Forbes, nearly 60% of attacks are targeted at SMBs, and the Datto 2019 Global State of the Channel Ransomware Report listed 85% of MSPs having reported ransomware attacks against their clients within the last two years. Those percentages are staggering, and they’re predicted to remain steady—or worsen. So, as the refrain often goes, it’s not a matter of IF, but WHEN your business will experience an incident.

With all this in mind, Collabrance, a Master MSP and wholly owned subsidiary of GreatAmerica, is always seeking solutions to help IT providers improve their customers’ security risk. That’s why we’re excited to partner with SKOUT Cybersecurity and leverage their many solutions to supplement our existing security technology and processes. With SKOUT, we’re expanding our threat-detection capabilities in three areas: ransomware, business email compromise, and compliance.

Let’s take a closer look at SKOUT’s offering and capabilities.

What is SKOUT?

SKOUT is an organization that provides security operations–or SOC–as-a-Service (also known as Cyber-as-a-Service). SKOUT has long maintained a focus on protecting small and medium-sized businesses; through their partnership with Collabrance and the MSPs that work with us, SKOUT is able to further its mission of making cybercrime protection accessible to all businesses.