Managed Security Services (MSS).

ANS Co-Managed Security is a collaborative, end-to-end security service that helps you reduce risk, improve visibility, and strengthen control across identity, endpoint, cloud, and data, while maintaining ownership of your environment. Combining specialist expertise, continuous monitoring, and Microsoft-aligned best practices, it helps you close gaps faster, respond with confidence, and build resilience that keeps pace with an evolving threat landscape.

• Reduce Exposure Early
  Identify misconfigurations, policy drift, and risk before they escalate.
• Governance Built In
  Improve governance, compliance, and visibility across the estate.
• Improve Protection
  Enhance detection, triage, and defence across key attack surfaces.
• Evolve Continuously
  Build resilience over time through ongoing improvement,
  adaptation, and expert guidance.

With ANS, cyber resilience is built into the fabric of your organisation, enabling you to stay protected, respond to change faster, and embrace new opportunities with confidence.

ANS Co-Managed Security is a governance-led security service that strengthens your identity, data, endpoint, and Microsoft 365 posture while reducing risk, supporting regulatory ccompliance, aligning to best practice, and enabling secure AI adoption.

• Secure by Design, Secure by Default
  Embedded identity protection, compliance best practices, policy alignment, and Microsoft native security controls across your estate, ensuring security is built in by default.
• Posture & Exposure Management
  Gain continuous visibility of configuration drift, exposure signals, misconfigurations, and risks across Microsoft 365 and Entra ID.
• Intelligent Governance & Change Control
  Reduce risk and maintain consistency with a best-practice change management model spanning identity, data, endpoints, and Microsoft 365.
• Expert Guidance & Architectural Assurance
  Access specialist security expertise, Customer Success Management, and strategic guidance to validate configurations, strengthen architecture, and align to Microsoft best practice.
• Operational Efficiency & Shared Responsibility
  Transfer agreed security management responsibilities to ANS, reducing operational overhead and allowing internal teams to focus on strategic priorities.
• Continuous Monitoring & Reporting
  Stay ahead of threats through ongoing monitoring of exposure signals, configuration drift, policy deviations, and key risk indicators, supported by dashboards and regular reporting.
• AI Adoption Without Risk
  Become AI-ready through continuous risk monitoring, centralised usage controls, data labelling, and protection against shadow AI and data leakage.

With 43% of UK organisations experiencing a cyber breach or attack in the last 12 months, the threat landscape continues to grow. At the same time, the average cost of a UK cyber breach is £3.29 million, while 54% of security leaders report a lack of in-house security skills and capacity.

Security services help organisations reduce risk, strengthen resilience, and access the expertise needed to stay protected against evolving cyber threats.

Partnering with a Managed Security Service Provider offers several benefits, including: 

• 24/7 Threat Detection and Response: Continuous monitoring to quickly identify and stop threats. 

• Access to Expertise: Leveraging the skills and knowledge of cybersecurity professionals. 

• Cost Savings: Paying for managed security services is usually more cost-effective than in-house security staff and infrastructure. 

• Scalability: Easily scaling security services to match your organisation’s growth and needs. 

• Compliance Support: Assisting with regulatory compliance and audits from governing bodies. 

Providers of managed security services maintain regular communication with clients through various means, including: 

• Incident Response: Immediate communication during security incidents to coordinate response efforts. 

• Proactive Updates: Keeping clients informed about new threats, security updates, and best practices. 

• Regular Reporting: Providing detailed reports on security incidents, vulnerabilities, and compliance status. 

• Scheduled Meetings: Holding regular meetings to discuss security posture, upcoming threats, and strategic planning. 

As a managed security services provider, ANS keeps an open line of communication with customers about all threats. 

A Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) offers a range of cybersecurity services to protect an organisation’s IT environment. These security services can include: 

• Managed Detection and Response (MDR) 

• Penetration Testing 

• Managed Microsoft Extended Detection and Response (XDR) 

• Managed Firewall Services 

• Virtual Private Network (VPN) Management 

ANS managed security services can be tailored to fit your organisation’s specific needs. 

Managed Security Services involves outsourcing security management to a specialised provider – a Managed Security Services Provider (or MSSP). 

1. Assessment: The MSSP evaluates the organisation’s security needs and vulnerabilities. 
2. Implementation: Security tools and technologies are put in place (e.g. firewalls, IDS). Customers are onboarded into 
3. Monitoring: Continuous 24/7 monitoring of the IT environment for threats. 
4. Threat Response: MSSP detects, investigates, and responds to security incidents. 
5. Reporting: Regular reports on security incidents and overall security posture. 
6. Compliance: Assistance with regulatory compliance and security audits. 
7. Proactive Measures: Threat hunting to identify and neutralise threats early. 
8. Communication: Regular updates and meetings with clients. 

If you want more detail on ANS managed security services specifically, schedule a call with us and member of our team will get in touch with you. 

A Managed Security Service Provider like ANS can manage a variety of security devices, including: 

• Microsoft Defender 

• Azure Sentinel management and integration 

• Security Orchestration and Automated Response (SOAR) 

• Anti-virus and Anti-malware solutions 

• Vulnerability Scans 

• Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) 

• Firewalls 

Yes, MSSPs do monitor cloud environments. They provide specialized security services for cloud infrastructure, including threat detection, incident response, and compliance management for cloud-based systems. 

ANS managed security services are primarily focused on monitoring cloud and hybrid cloud environments. 

MSSPs assist organisations in achieving and maintaining compliance with various regulatory requirements such as: 

• GDPR 

• DPI 

• Posture Management