Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are doing what they can to deal with what’s best described as the trifecta of cybersecurity adversity. As a result, businesses are increasingly turning to outsourcing their security operations to a managed security service provider (MSSP). While a step in the right direction, working with a vendor that lacks the amenities needed for a truly effective security operations center (SOC), with a focus on managed detection and response, will leave holes in a SMBs’ security posture.

To help organizations make smart security decisions, we’ve created the following checklist to guide the search for a managed SOC.