- Cybersecurity Awareness Month (CAM): Learn how partnering with an MSSP helps organizations meet the foundational security goals recommended by CISA.
- Managed Security Service Providers (MSSP): Discover how an MSSP manages technical security burdens like vulnerability management, strong access controls, and MDR to achieve a "Culture of Cybersecurity."
- CISA's "Four Essentials": See how Trustwave's solutions, including Managed Detection and Response (MDR), align with CISA's cybersecurity suggestions for resilience and incident response.
Cybersecurity Awareness Month (CAM) 2025 is well underway, and while the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCSA) are pushing basic cyber hygiene tasks, there is another level organizations need to consider to remain secure and resilient.
Certainly, patching, strong passwords, and email security training are important, but is the organization capable of teaching these lessons or ensuring security is up to date? This is where partnering with a Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) can help an organization attain the goals set by CISA and NCSA.
So, let’s take a dive into how Trustwave, A LevelBlue Company, and its MSSP solutions can help implement best cybersecurity practices and establish the "Culture of Cybersecurity" that CISA says is needed as part of its CAM security suggestions.
Mapping CISA’s Director to What an MSSP Delivers
As the world’s largest pure-play MSSP, we can keep an organization secure by acting as an extension of your security team to manage the technical burden, allowing the organization to focus on the human-centric goals of awareness month.
Here is the role an MSSP can play, based on the information provided by CISA:
1. Enabling Cybersecurity Awareness Training and Culture:
- Implementation Partner: CISA stresses the need to "Teach Employees to Avoid Phishing" and make security training a regular part of staff onboarding and ongoing development." An MSSP can directly provide or manage phishing simulation services and deliver the required "engaging cybersecurity training activities" to create the necessary culture of cybersecurity.
- Validation: The MSSP's security reporting and management services help "Evaluate the effectiveness of security trainings" by tracking security incidents and improving detection rates.
2. Managing the Technical "Four Essentials" and "Level Up Your Defenses.”
An MSSP manages and monitors the critical security controls CISA recommends, ensuring they are implemented correctly, which is the foundation that awareness efforts build upon. This includes:
- Identity and Access Management: Enforcing the requirements for Strong Passwords and managing Multifactor Authentication (MFA) across all business systems.
- Vulnerability Management: Ensuring systems are protected by promptly installing security updates and patches (CISA's Update Business Software recommendation).
- Monitoring and Response: Implementing and monitoring logging on business Systems to detect signs of malicious activity and handling the processes required to report cyber incident information to CISA when necessary.
Trustwave’s SpiderLabs team has decades of experience with helping implement Strong Access Controls: Trustwave's identity and access management solutions help healthcare organizations implement stringent access controls, such as Single Sign-On and Multifactor Authentication, ensuring that only authorized personnel can access patient data.
Trustwave's managed vulnerability scanning service provides a programmatic approach to vulnerability management. It focuses on consistently identifying and addressing vulnerabilities across your organization's databases, networks, and applications. MVS takes the heavy lifting out of vulnerability scanning by managing all aspects of the process to help you achieve your security goals.
Trustwave’s Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and Co-Managed SOC (SIEM) conduct monitoring and logging through a systematic process involving collection, normalization, analysis, and includes an expert review process.
3. Building Resilience with Incident Response and Recovery:
The MSSP helps the organization create an incident response plan and, through its services, provides the tools to maintain Focus on continuity.
This includes managing the technical solutions for Back Up Business Data and verifying that critical systems can stay operational during an incident, which is a key component of being cyber-ready.
Trustwave’s Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) services and its elite SpiderLabs team of security experts deliver on building resilience with incident response and recovery by offering both proactive readiness and rapid reactive response.
Trustwave has designed its Digital Forensics and Incident Response service to help organizations create an incident response plan and build overall readiness through its proactive readiness offerings, which may include:
- Incident Response Plan Development: They assist in creating or reviewing a formal Computer Security Incident Response Plan (CSIRP) that details roles, responsibilities, and procedures for responding to cyber incidents.
- Breach Preparedness and Training: This often involves conducting tabletop exercises and simulated exercises to test the organization's response plan and train staff to recognize indicators of compromise and respond effectively, ensuring the organization maintains a Focus on continuity.
- Capability Assessments: They assess your current detection and readiness capabilities, identifying gaps in your existing incident response procedures and security posture.
Please keep an eye out for the Trustwave blogs for additional 2025 CAM blogs!
