Securing information assets has become a highly complex function demanding significant investment in process definition, security expertise, systems, and infrastructure. Compounding these challenges, it requires internal alignment between the various business units, IT organization and security teams to ensure the tensions between availability and security are well balanced. An internal approach requires a staff with security expertise, in addition to systems, toolsets, and processes to maintain an organization’s security posture around the clock. Organizations that have time and money to implement an internal solution benefit from their ability to fully customize the solution, to integrate internal systems including their ticketing environment and/or patch management systems, and to retain internal security knowledge. If an organization is willing to share its network visibility with a trusted MSSP partner, it can benefit from shorter implementation time, skilled personnel, predictable cost, and a constant security posture through the partner’s ability to identify security events in a proactive manner, and provide an organization with refined information to take action on. An MSSP can help remove the burden of managing and monitoring security devices and offer the earliest possible warning of new threats emerging on the Internet and corporate networks.