Factors Influencing Managed Security Services Vendor Selection

Start Date

12-10-2019 2:00 PM

End Date

12-10-2019 2:25 PM

Location

KSU Center Rm 400

Abstract

Organizations that are considering managed security services (MSS) vendors undertake a variety of selection process to make a more informed decision regarding the selection of an MSS provider. This study is a work-in-progress that seeks to examine how some recent projects at medium to large organizations undertake these projects.

The project intends to:

1) identify and document strategies and criteria for information technology outsourcing from academic and practice literature,

2) consider how those strategies and criteria may be adapted for use in managed security services (MSS) provider selection, and then

3) validate the strategies and criteria for MSS vendor selection from the prior and current practices of organizations engaged in IT outsourcing.

The early work on this effort to date includes:

1) identify and document strategies for information technology outsourcing from academic and practice literature,

2) consider how those strategies may be adapted for use in managed security services (MSS) provider selection, and then

3) validate the strategies and criteria for MSS vendor selection from the prior and current practices of organizations engaged in IT outsourcing.

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This is a work-in-process that will share instrument design work done to date. It is a presentation-only submission. There will be no full paper published in the proceedings.

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Factors Influencing Managed Security Services Vendor Selection

KSU Center Rm 400

Organizations that are considering managed security services (MSS) vendors undertake a variety of selection process to make a more informed decision regarding the selection of an MSS provider. This study is a work-in-progress that seeks to examine how some recent projects at medium to large organizations undertake these projects.

The project intends to:

1) identify and document strategies and criteria for information technology outsourcing from academic and practice literature,

2) consider how those strategies and criteria may be adapted for use in managed security services (MSS) provider selection, and then

3) validate the strategies and criteria for MSS vendor selection from the prior and current practices of organizations engaged in IT outsourcing.

The early work on this effort to date includes:

1) identify and document strategies for information technology outsourcing from academic and practice literature,

2) consider how those strategies may be adapted for use in managed security services (MSS) provider selection, and then

3) validate the strategies and criteria for MSS vendor selection from the prior and current practices of organizations engaged in IT outsourcing.