Cyber security solutions provider, Avast has released its new AVG Managed Workplace solution with the addition of site security assessment for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).
The company pitches it as an alternative to costly and complex assessment and monitoring solutions.
Managed Service Providers (MSPs) now have a simplified way to perform real-time security assessments and consolidate the data into easy-to-read reports that prescribe solutions for issues. From these reports, MSPs can quickly recommend solutions, take actionable steps to remediate issues and demonstrate how they are keeping businesses safe and secure – all from the Managed Workplace remote monitoring and management platform (RMM), the company said in a statement.
Security threats and data breaches can be catastrophic for SMBs who are increasingly the target for cyberattacks. This adds to challenges for MSPs due to increased security expectations but also highlights their critical role. Recent CompTIA research noted that expected growth of managed services is predicted to be on par with high-growth market categories like Internet of Things at nearly 30 percent. While monitoring and management will help MSPs with their daily work and this expected demand for their skills, these tools and platforms must focus on the security of networks and devices. The new Managed Workplace security assessment enables MSPs to do a health check on their customers’ networks right from the RMM platform, providing real-time assessments that are easy to generate and communicate, coupled with actionable plans required to stay ahead of threats and protect the SMB.
“Industry research shows more than half of SMB data breaches in the past year have involved customer and employee information, resulting in companies spending more than $800,000 to recover. Our channel partners have also told us that one of their biggest security challenges is helping their clients understand the role people play in security issues, and that this can often be resolved by knowing what measures to take to prevent these risks. The trouble is most security monitoring and assessment tools only solve for some of what the MSP needs,” said Kevin Chapman, SVP and general manager of Avast’s SMB Business. “We saw a market opportunity to provide MSPs with a better way to communicate the specific factors that are contributing to their clients’ security risks and show how their services are resolving these issues. This equips MSPs with the tools to have valuable security conversations with their clients and demonstrate tangibly what they are doing to keep their business safe.”