An Intellyx Brain Candy Update
We last spoke to Open Systems CEO Geoff Haydon in July 2021, soon after he took the post.
Now more than a year in, Haydon has focused the cybersecurity company on its Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) offerings.
MDR requires staffing a security operations team of seasoned professionals – people who are rarer than hen’s teeth in today’s overheated cybersecurity market.
Open Systems is able to attract the best of the best in large part because it rotates cybersecurity engineers through different MDR clients as well as product teams.
As a result, engineers get to work with a variety of problems and technologies, and customers are able to interact with people who are directly responsible for product capabilities.
Haydon has also expanded Open Systems’ Microsoft partnership after winning the Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) of the Year award at the Microsoft Security Excellence Awards 2022.
The Open Systems/Microsoft partnership has shown particular success in the ‘mid-maturity’ segment of the market, consisting of companies of various sizes that are mature enough to undertake a formal cybersecurity program but still require third-party support for such efforts.
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