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Regulatory compliance requirements like PCI and HIPAA can create complex challenges that an in-house team might need help to handle. An MSP can solve these concerns and prevent them from impacting operations and data.
An MSP can also perform menial tasks that an IT team might otherwise have spent time on and frees them up for more important projects. This reduces overhead costs by lowering the need for full-time, in-house staff.
Preventive Maintenance
Maintenance costs are often a major burden for businesses, but effective preventive maintenance can lower those costs. Preventive maintenance involves inspecting equipment regularly for signs of problems — and then taking action before they become serious, saving your company money.
Cyber-attacks are constantly evolving, and keeping up with new threats, responding to incidents quickly, and recovering from attacks that go unnoticed or are detected too late can consume your team’s time and resources. Arctic IT Managed Services can free up your internal IT teams to focus on more business-critical issues.
A trusted MSP can also be a helpful bridge between your in-house IT team and technology vendors, becoming familiar with your company over time. They can help you choose the best hardware and software vendors.
Enhanced Security
In addition to preventive maintenance, MSPs provide ongoing security management services that help organizations detect and remediate cyber-attacks. They also offer round-the-clock monitoring through a remote system monitoring platform.
Cyberattacks happen rapidly and evolve constantly, making it difficult to keep up with the latest threats. Furthermore, establishing and running a dedicated IT department requires time and effort that takes away from other aspects of your business.
For example, if your company is a victim of phishing attacks, an MSP might know about a specific tool that can help prevent these attacks without additional training. That frees up your in-house team’s time on projects to mature the company’s security posture. This helps improve productivity and reduces risk.
Scalability
In IT, scalability is the ability of software or hardware to handle an increase in workload without being bogged down. This can be increased users, storage available, or more complicated code changes that govern a program.
Organizations require their systems to remain available under various conditions, including network outages, hardware failures, natural disasters, and sudden, increased loads. Approaching scalability from a high availability (HA) perspective ensures these needs are met while providing consistent performance under varying conditions.
With managed services, you can rest assured that you’ll always have access to the most up-to-date technology. This is because equipment upgrade costs are often rolled into the monthly fee you pay your MSP.
Flexibility
Businesses grow quickly, and the needs of IT systems change as they do. The best way to support growth is with scalable managed services that meet the company’s needs.
Cyber-attacks and threats evolve at an incredibly rapid rate. Keeping up with these threats and responding to them before they become full-blown crisis requires extensive expertise and resources. An MSP can help your team by providing 24/7 monitoring that identifies threats before they become catastrophic.
MSPs are well-versed in industry standards like Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). They can run reports, conduct audits and manage compliance requirements to ensure your business stays compliant without consuming in-house IT resources. They can also help your business stay agile by accommodating sudden changes that an in-house team might need help to handle.
Cost-Effectiveness
Cyberattacks can wreak havoc on any business, resulting in costly downtime. A managed services provider can protect to minimize downtime during a breach.
When an internal team is tasked with answering support calls, handling equipment malfunctions, and keeping up to date with software developer updates, they aren’t able to focus on projects that will help the company grow. Managed services providers can take over these duties, freeing up team members to focus on meeting overarching business objectives.
Additionally, an in-house team must sift through a litany of cybersecurity standards and regulations and ensure they follow all the rules. This can be extremely time-consuming and distracting for an in-house team. A managed service provider can take over compliance and auditing tasks.
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