Selecting an MSSP: Leveraging Your In-House Team with New Opportunities
Enhancing, Not Replacing, Your In-House Team
For some strategic customers, an MSP can integrate with the in-house team, augmenting their capabilities with additional expertise and resources. This approach allows the business to improve service levels while preserving institutional knowledge and offering existing team members new career opportunities. It’s a shift from a single-company security focus to a broader, dynamic security landscape, where team members gain exposure to diverse security challenges and career paths.
The Benefits of a Collaborative MSP Approach
This model offers several advantages:
- Retain Knowledge and Experience: Your team’s institutional knowledge remains within the company, allowing for continuity and consistency in security practices.
- Provide Career Growth: In-house security staff can expand their career horizons by working with an MSSP, gaining exposure to new skills and a variety of security scenarios.
- Increase Service Quality: By combining forces with an MSSP, the level of security services is enhanced, closing critical security gaps that would otherwise require extensive resources and hiring efforts.
A Sustainable Approach to Security Staffing
Outsourcing security without displacing your current team offers a solution that balances internal loyalty with external expertise. Rather than simply outsourcing and losing valued employees, this approach supports team members’ transition to new roles where they continue to contribute to your business’s security posture, now with added resources. This collaboration ensures you retain your team, keep critical knowledge intact, and elevate your security coverage without the endless costs and challenges of hiring individual security experts.
In an industry where there’s intense competition for security talent, this collaborative model provides a pathway to scale security effectively without compromising on quality or company culture.