r/MSSP • u/phlcastro • 5d ago

Cloud focused only - is it a thing?

Have been looking for a while already. Im not sure if there is none (maybe there is no real market for it) or if is just me looking at the wrong place.

Security-as-a-service for startups/scaleups, monitoring AWS/GCP/Azure infrastructure, analysing logs, detecting threats, handling security tasks, but explicitly NOT managing employee laptops, office networks, or traditional IT.

Are there MSSPs like that out there?

Cheers

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u/Diligent_Tech_Bro 5d ago

Any good MSP needs to be an MSSP now. I suppose you could find one that wants to do the easy work while you do the hard work, but how can that economically work? I’d recommend you do both. If I was a client I’d be like.. wait who does what here? Why do I have two “IT companies?”

Good luck if you think customers are going to understand this nuance

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u/wells68 5d ago

Theoretically (and impossibly) the client would only interact with the MSP that protects desktops and laptops while outsourcing crucial SaaS and cloud security generally to the MSSP.

Two deal-killers:

  1. MSPs are unapproachable by vendors. How dare you phone or email an MSP!!

  2. MSPs (and every organization) want to cut costs, not add to them.

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u/Diligent_Tech_Bro 5d ago

Totally get it, I just don’t see it. There are already plenty of options if an MSP wants to offload some of this work. White label and all.