Why MSSPs Should Upgrade to the IMPACT SecOps Platform
By upgrading to the Impelix IMPACT SecOps Platform, MSSPs can unlock numerous business benefits, from operational efficiency and cost savings to enhanced threat detection and proactive defense. The platform’s AI-driven automation, real-time analytics, RBAC, scalability, and advanced reporting capabilities make it an essential tool for MSSPs seeking to stay competitive, improve client satisfaction, and grow their business.
With IMPACT, MSSPs can differentiate their services, increase revenue, and deliver superior security outcomes to clients across various industries, securing long-term success in an ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape. Our multi-tenancy allows fast customer on-boarding with NO per-customer set-up fees. We offer unlimited data ingest with predicatable, flat user-based pricing. And our Zero Triage model and casebooks feature saves your SOC analysts time and delivers the highest level of security for your customers.
1. Increased Operational Efficiency with Automation and Orchestration
- IMPACT’s Automation Engine: The IMPACT platform provides an AI-driven automation engine that automates repetitive tasks such as threat correlation, alert prioritization, and incident triage. This allows MSSPs to process higher volumes of data with less manual intervention, reducing alert fatigue and improving efficiency.
- Orchestration for Seamless Workflows: IMPACT supports end-to-end orchestration of security processes, enabling MSSPs to streamline incident response, remediation, and recovery. It integrates multiple tools into a single workflow, eliminating operational silos and reducing the need for multiple, disparate platforms.
- Optimized Analyst Time: By automating routine tasks, the IMPACT platform allows security analysts to focus on high-value activities such as threat hunting and strategic response. This results in better resource allocation, reducing operational costs while improving security outcomes.
2. Advanced Threat Detection and Proactive Defense
- AI-Powered Capabilities: The IMPACT platform’s Narrow AI algorithms detect Advanced Persistent Threats by correlating the logs from multiple data sources into a single, cohesive story and mapping the entire incident against known tactics, techniques and procedures.
- Proactive Threat Hunting with Real-Time Analytics: IMPACT’s real-time analytics and threat intelligence feed integrations allow MSSPs to engage in proactive threat hunting. By identifying indicators of compromise (IoCs) early, MSSPs can limit attacks, or prevent them entirely, before they significantly impact clients, offering an added layer of protection and value.
- IoC Sharing and Automated Regressive Search: With each customer’s unique stack of security tools, each provides threat detections that others might miss. IMPACT allows MSSPs to share anonymized threat intel across all of their customers, so they collectively benefit from detections made within a single environment.
3. Scalability and Flexibility for Growing Client Needs
- Cloud-Native Architecture: The cloud-native nature of the IMPACT platform ensures that MSSPs can easily scale their services as their client base grows. Whether serving SMBs or large enterprises, the platform’s elastic architecture allows for seamless scalability without infrastructure limitations.
- Full Multi-Tenant Architecture: IMPACT’s multi-tenant capabilities are ideal for MSSPs, allowing for efficient management of multiple clients from a centralized platform. Each client’s environment is securely isolated, yet easily monitored, ensuring that MSSPs can deliver tailored services while reducing complexity.
- Vendor Agnostic Platform: IMPACT natively supports data from hundreds of different security and network tools, enabling MSSPs to support a diverse customer-base, regardless of the tooling used in their environment.
4. Cost Reduction through Optimized Tooling and Resource Allocation
- Unified Platform: IMPACT consolidates several security tools—SIEM, SOAR, XDR, and GRC—into one cohesive platform. This eliminates the need for multiple licenses, product integrations and platform expertise. This significantly reduces licensing, maintenance, and operational costs, driving down overhead for MSSPs.
- Reduced Infrastructure Costs: IMPACT’s cloud-based design means MSSPs can reduce on-premises hardware expenses, as well as the associated maintenance and upgrade costs. MSSPs can focus more on delivering value to clients rather than maintaining costly and complex infrastructure.
- AI-Powered Threat Triage: By using AI to triage threats, IMPACT reduces the number of false positives, cutting down on the time security teams spend investigating benign alerts. This leads to lower staffing costs and better resource optimization.
5. Enhanced Client Satisfaction and Retention with Superior Security Outcomes
- Faster Incident Detection and Response: IMPACT’s real-time threat detection, done with sophisticated Narrow AI models, allows MSSPs to quickly identify, prioritize, and respond to threats. This rapid response ensures better security outcomes for clients, protecting their assets and reducing downtime.
- Comprehensive Reporting and Transparency: The platform provides real-time dashboards and in-depth reporting capabilities. This allows MSSPs to offer clients clear insights into their security posture and ongoing security events, improving client engagement and satisfaction.
- Demonstrable ROI for Clients: By leveraging IMPACT’s advanced security capabilities, MSSPs can demonstrate improved risk mitigation, better threat detection rates, and lower incident response times. Clients can see clear ROI on their security investments, fostering trust and long-term partnerships.
6. Simplified Compliance and Risk Management
- Real-Time Compliance Monitoring: IMPACT provides automated compliance reporting across many common frameworks like NIST-800, PCI-DSS and the CIS Critical Controls to facilitate continuous improvement and measure progress over time, with no manual effort.
- Automated Compliance Reporting: With automated compliance checks and pre-configured templates, the platform simplifies the process of preparing for audits and reporting. This helps MSSPs reduce the time and effort required to ensure clients are compliant, mitigating regulatory risks.
- Comprehensive Risk Management: IMPACT enables MSSPs to manage and reduce client risk by providing continuous monitoring of security controls, endpoint agents and devices being scanned by vulnerability management tools. This holistic risk management approach reduces the likelihood of breaches and compliance violations.
7. Competitive Advantage through Innovation
- Data-Driven Approach to Preventive Security: The Impelix IMPACT platform automatically tracks and reports on gaps within a customer’s deployed controls, such as endpoints that are not running the EDR agent, or even entire attack surfaces that are not monitored or secured. This capability helps MSSPs stand out in the marketplace, offering clients proactive protection rather than reactive security.
- Innovative Service Offerings: IMPACT enables MSSPs to offer cutting-edge services such as real-time threat intelligence, automated response orchestration, and predictive threat hunting. These advanced offerings differentiate MSSPs from competitors, positioning them as leaders in the cybersecurity space.
- Attraction of Larger, Enterprise-Level Clients: The platform’s advanced capabilities, scalability, and compliance support make it ideal for attracting enterprise clients with complex security needs, opening up new opportunities for revenue growth and market expansion.
8. Increased Revenue and Customer Loyalty
- Advisory and Consultative Services: MSSPs can use IMPACT to offer metrics-backed insights into their customers’ security tooling and make recommendations on where to reduce noise, increase attack disruption rates, and eliminate unnecessary/overlapping tools. These recommendations reinforce the MSSPs role as Trusted Advisor and increase customer satisfaction and stickiness. This can also lead to environmental tuning services and/or rip-and-replace opportunities for underperforming tools.
- Expanded Service Offerings: IMPACT includes full-featured SOAR functionality within the platform. This enables MSSPs to deliver full detection, response and remediation services on behalf of their customers, where many MSSPs stop at detection and notification. Additional services can also be offered like real-time threat hunting, 24/7 monitoring, and security posture analysis, maximizing revenue per client.
- Performance-Based Pricing Models: With the advanced metrics and reporting offered by IMPACT, MSSPs can introduce performance-based pricing models, charging clients based on threat prevention rates, time to resolve incidents, or compliance benchmarks. This aligns pricing with tangible security outcomes, enhancing revenue potential.
9. Achieve Better Outcomes = Do More with Less
- AI-Augmented Threat Investigation: IMPACT enhances analyst productivity by using AI to automate event investigations and score the severity of the incident in real time. This enables more junior (less expensive) analysts to quickly assess the risk posed by an incident, understand the breadth (aka "Blast Radius") and initiate a response within minutes of the first alerts that were generated.
- Reduced Alert Fatigue: IMPACT’s AI-powered alert prioritization filters out false positives and highlights high-priority threats, ensuring that analysts are not overwhelmed by unimportant, or outright false, alerts. This leads to more engaging work, higher morale and less turnover among the security team.
- Analyst-Focused UI: Threat Hunting and Artifact Searches are streamlined, using Natural Language Queries, within the Impelix platform. This means that SOC analysts can focus on your customers’ security instead of mastering the platform they use. This provides a significant savings in terms of staff onboarding time, as well as ongoing training as your team changes and grows.
10. Real-Time Visibility and Control for Better Decision Making
- Unified Dashboard for Client Monitoring: The Multi-Tenant IMPACT platform provides MSSPs with a unified view of all their clients’ security postures, while keeping each customer’s data safe within it’s own private tenant. This visibility allows for better decision-making and faster response times during incidents, including zero-days that affect many organizations simultaneously.
- Instant Response and Threat Containment: IMPACT’s real-time orchestration capabilities allow MSSPs to immediately contain and remediate threats, minimizing damage to client environments. The platform enables seamless coordination across cloud, on-prem, and endpoint environments.
- Improved Client Engagement with Live Reporting: MSSPs can provide clients with real-time insights and live reporting on security metrics. This transparency builds trust and strengthens relationships, fostering long-term client loyalty.
Empowering Your Team with Impelix IMPACT
At Impelix, we understand the challenges that security professionals face. That’s why we’ve developed the IMPACT platform—to tackle these issues head-on and empower your team with the tools and insights they need to stay ahead of threats and protect what matters most.
Key Features of IMPACT:
- Centralized Alert Management: Consolidates alerts from multiple sources, reducing noise and enabling quicker response.
- AI-Driven Automation: Automates threat detection and response, ensuring rapid mitigation.
- Real-Time Analytics: Provides actionable insights and comprehensive visibility across the entire attack surface.
- User-Friendly Interface: Intuitive design that enhances usability for all skill levels.
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