The trend toward outsourcing IT security is on the rise as businesses of varying sizes move to protect their data from increasingly sophisticated attacks. Reducing the cost of maintaining a tight control over security is becoming far too costly to manage in-house, hence the move to make it someone else's problem.

Over the last decade, the ways and means of attacking data have become more sophisticated and they continue to evolve at an alarming rate. Staying ahead of these advancements is imperative in order to efficiently ward off attacks.