NCC Group Expands Managed Security Offering

NCC Group collaborates with Qualys to reinforce managed services to solve shadow IT and increase attack surface visibility.

NCC Group has collaborated with Qualys to expand its skills to managed attack surface management (ASM), which aims to address increasing risks posed by the shadow IT within the enterprise environment. NCC Group will include Qualys real-time asset discovery tools in its portfolio to monitor known and unknown assets under its IT through the alliance.

The movement improves the managed services offered by NCC Group, enabling organizations to locate devices, applications and any external services that might be unknown to their internal security staffs. The growth is occurring as uncontrolled asset and data-sharing patterns grow, especially with employees' external AI solutions and large language models.

Such actions can reveal sensitive data and expand the attack surface, making proactive visibility a key responsibility for cybersecurity teams. The improved managed services will eliminate operational blind spots by merging both automation and human-based supervision.

The trend in the industry remains to be the high demand for managed services since organizations are finding it challenging to recruit and retain competent cybersecurity experts. As MarketsandMarkets reveals, the global managed security services market is expected to expand at an immensely fast pace up to 2030 due to the tendency to rely on outside experience.

NCC Group has said that the partnership helps organizations create a more flexible security strategy, allowing them to mix in-house and outsourced managed services and adapt to new threats and growing digital environments.