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Solutions For Managed Security Service Providers
Helping MSSPs Scale, Differentiate And Retain Customers
Managed Security Service Providers operate in an increasingly competitive market. Customers expect stronger protection, faster response times and lower costs, whilst cyber threats continue to increase in both volume and sophistication. At the same time, Security Operations Centres face growing operational demands, rising staffing costs and increasing pressure to demonstrate measurable value.
Most MSSPs have built their services around remarkably similar technology stacks. Endpoint Detection and Response, SIEM, SOAR, Network Detection and Response, vulnerability management and cloud security platforms have become the foundation of the modern Security Operations Centre. Whilst these technologies continue to evolve, they have also become increasingly difficult to differentiate. Competition frequently shifts towards price, service levels and response times rather than genuine technological advantage.
The challenge is no longer simply delivering managed security. It is delivering managed security that scales profitably, retains customers and provides a compelling reason for customers to stay.
Modern MSSPs combine proven detection, response and management technologies. DXI is designed to complement that architecture by adding deterministic execution control.
CHANGING THE ECONOMICS OF MANAGED SECURITY
Deterministic eXecution Integrity (DXI) is not designed to replace the technologies already deployed within your Security Operations Centre. It is designed to strengthen them.
Abatis, the deterministic execution engine of DXI, controls what code is permitted to execute before operational consequences can occur. Working alongside Abatis, Praesidium provides operational visibility, governance, compliance, SIEM, Network Detection and Response, asset discovery and incident management through a unified operational platform. Aegis extends deterministic control to protected information by governing which applications may access sensitive data.
Together they complement existing security investments whilst fundamentally changing the economics of managed security.
SCALE WITHOUT LINEAR GROWTH
Traditional Security Operations Centres scale by adding analysts. As customer numbers increase, so do endpoints, alerts, investigations and operational overhead. Growth frequently requires additional people, creating a direct relationship between revenue and operational cost. DXI changes this equation.
If unauthorised code cannot execute, many incidents never occur. Fewer successful attacks mean fewer investigations, fewer escalations and fewer emergency response activities. Analysts spend less time triaging speculative behavioural alerts and more time addressing genuine operational issues.
This enables Security Operations Centres to support larger customer estates without proportional increases in operational complexity.
Differentiation does not require replacement
REDUCE CUSTOMER CHURN
Customers rarely change Managed Security Service Providers because another provider offers a more attractive dashboard. They leave because confidence has been lost.
A successful ransomware attack, supply chain compromise or significant operational disruption inevitably raises difficult questions, regardless of where responsibility ultimately lies.
By materially reducing the likelihood of unauthorised code executing within protected environments, DXI helps reduce one of the principal causes of customer dissatisfaction: successful compromise.
Better security outcomes build stronger customer relationships. Stronger customer relationships improve retention.
DIFFERENTIATE BEYOND DETECTION
Most MSSPs deliver similar combinations of EDR, SIEM, SOAR and managed detection services. DXI enables providers to offer something fundamentally different.
Rather than competing solely on how quickly threats can be detected and investigated, DXI introduces deterministic execution control beneath the existing security stack. Existing security technologies continue to perform their existing roles, whilst Abatis ensures only authorised code is permitted to execute.
This creates a distinctive service offering that complements existing investments rather than replacing them.
One approach across IT, OT and IoT.
PROTECT EXISTING SERVICE REVENUES
Abatis is not designed to replace your existing Security Operations Centre, SIEM, SOAR or Endpoint Detection and Response platforms. Those technologies continue to deliver considerable value.
DXI strengthens the architecture beneath them, reducing the likelihood of successful compromise whilst preserving the services your customers already purchase. Rather than asking providers to replace their security stack, DXI enables them to strengthen it.
EXPAND INTO NEW MARKETS
Critical National Infrastructure, Operational Technology, healthcare, transportation, manufacturing, utilities and smart city environments increasingly require demonstrable resilience, deterministic control and cyber sovereignty. Engineered across Microsoft Windows, Linux and Android, Abatis enables MSSPs to extend deterministic protection across enterprise IT, Operational Technology, Industrial Control Systems and the Internet of Things through a single architectural approach.
This enables providers to address higher value regulated markets whilst maintaining a consistent security philosophy.
Local policy enforcement supports sovereignty.
SUPPORT CYBER SOVEREIGNTY
Governments and regulated industries increasingly expect greater control over where security decisions are made and where operational information resides.
DXI enforces execution policy locally and does not rely upon the continual export of operational telemetry to external cloud services in order to protect the environment.
For MSSPs supporting defence, government, financial services and Critical National Infrastructure, this provides a strong foundation for sovereign managed security services aligned with evolving regulatory expectations.
A BETTER BUSINESS MODEL
Managed security is no longer defined solely by the ability to detect attacks. Increasingly, it is defined by the ability to prevent disruption, demonstrate resilience and deliver measurable business outcomes.
Deterministic eXecution Integrity enables Managed Security Service Providers to strengthen customer retention, improve analyst productivity, reduce operational complexity and differentiate their services without replacing the technologies they already deliver.
The most valuable security incident is the one that never occurs.
Protecting the SOC protects the service.
Protect Yourself First
Why every MSSP should deploy DXI within its own estate.
Managed Security Service Providers occupy a unique position within the cybersecurity ecosystem. They protect some of the world's most important organisations whilst operating the privileged infrastructure upon which those organisations depend. Security Operations Centres, management platforms, administrative workstations and remote management systems represent highly attractive targets for sophisticated threat actors. A successful compromise of an MSSP has the potential to affect not only the provider itself but every customer that depends upon it.
The provider therefore becomes part of the customer's supply chain. Protecting that supply chain begins at home. We believe Managed Security Service Providers should deploy the same deterministic execution controls that they recommend to their customers.
This is not simply a question of technology. It is a question of confidence.
Deploying DXI across the provider's own operational environment demonstrates that deterministic execution control is trusted to protect the infrastructure from which managed security services are delivered. Every Security Operations Centre, every management server, every privileged administrative workstation and every corporate endpoint benefits from the same deterministic protection offered to customers. This strengthens operational resilience whilst reducing the risk that malicious software, compromised updates or unauthorised code can disrupt the provider's own business.
It also strengthens customer confidence. Increasingly, customers expect their security providers to demonstrate the same standards they recommend to others. Organisations entrust MSSPs with privileged access to their environments, making the provider's own cybersecurity posture an important element of the overall supply chain. Deploying DXI internally demonstrates that commitment.
It also protects the technologies upon which the Security Operations Centre depends. Endpoint Detection and Response platforms, SIEM, SOAR, remote management tools and other operational technologies all rely upon the integrity of the operating systems on which they execute. By deterministically controlling what code is permitted to execute, DXI helps protect the environment supporting those platforms, reducing the risk that attempts to disable, bypass or compromise security tooling can undermine the provider's operations.
DXI is therefore not simply a technology that Managed Security Service Providers deliver. It is a technology that helps protect the provider itself. We believe that organisations entrusted with protecting others should first ensure the resilience of their own operations.
Protect yourself first. Protect your customers better.
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