Socura and Thomas Murray Announce Strategic Partnership
In cybersecurity, it pays to plan for the worst by ensuring that controls and processes are in place and tested frequently to prove their reliability and effectiveness when times are critical.
To support our clients in increasing their cyber preparedness, Socura is delighted to announce a partnership with Thomas Murray, a recognised expert in Incident Response (IR).
The partnership gives Socura clients access to Thomas Murray’s range of Incident Response Retainer (IRR) and consultation services. In return, Socura will offer Managed Detection and Response (MDR) to clients Thomas Murray is supporting to recover from cyber incidents.
About Thomas Murray’s Services
Thomas Murray is a global risk intelligence company that helps businesses understand and manage the risks they face in today’s interconnected world. The company’s Cyber Risk Practice possess years of experience responding to complex cyber incidents.
Among the services now available to Socura clients include:
- Incident Response Retainer
Includes 24/7 incident support, digital forensics, response planning, legal and regulatory support and dark web monitoring.
- Pen Testing
Tests the security of systems and applications from the perspective of an ethical hacker.
- Red Teaming
An objective-based assessment designed to test detection controls and IR processes.
- Cyber Awareness Training
Increase employees’ awareness of the latest cyber risks and how to minimise risks.
How MDR and IRR Complement Each Other
The risk of follow-up attacks is a significant risk for any organisation that has suffered a breach. By working with Socura, Thomas Murray will now offer clients that it is helping to recover from incidents the ability to quickly scale their threat detection capabilities with MDR.
Socura MDR includes an experienced team of Security Operations Centre professionals, responsible for proactively detecting and responding to threats. The service will manage and optimise any endpoint detection tooling installed as part of the IR process and automate response actions – minimising the time it takes to shut down future attacks.
“Proactive threat detection and response is vital to minimising cyber risk, but particularly so in the event of a breach,” says Andy Kays, CEO at Socura. “It’s why we’re delighted to partner with Thomas Murray and offer their clients that are dealing with a cyber incident the expertise they need to rapidly scale their capabilities and prevent repeat attacks. Thomas Murray’s considerable experience managing cyber incidents means they will also play an important role in helping our own clients to further increase their cyber preparedness.”
Ioan Peters, Managing Director of Cyber Risk at Thomas Murray said “We are excited to join forces with Socura, an innovative company that shares our passion for delivering exceptional cyber security services. Together, we will help organisations strengthen their defences against cyber threats and be better prepared to respond in the event of a security incident.”
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Get in touch to learn how Socura and Thomas Murray can strengthen your organisation’s threat readiness.