Cyber Managed Services

Your business challenge

Technological developments, including rapid AI adoption, are changing the cyber risk environment in which businesses operate. Attack surfaces are expanding across cloud, IT, operational technology (OT), applications, identities, data and third-party ecosystems. At the same time, threat actors are becoming more sophisticated and regulatory expectations are increasing. As a result, organizations need to reconsider how they protect, monitor and govern their digital environments.

This places a burden on cybersecurity teams, which are expected to adapt quickly and continuously while maintaining resilience, supporting business transformation and managing increasing cost pressure. As cyber capabilities, tools and providers evolve over time, organizations may end up with overlapping technologies, fragmented service ownership and limited visibility across their cyber exposure. This can make it harder to maintain effective cybersecurity and to prioritize remediation, manage investments efficiently and demonstrate the business value of cyber activities, besides presenting a challenge for:

• Understanding the organization’s cyber exposure across IT, cloud, OT, applications, identities, data and third parties

• Prioritizing vulnerabilities, control gaps and threats based on business impact, not only technical severity

• Accelerating the speed of threat detection and response and creating clearer escalation paths and accountability

• Strengthening cyber risk governance, compliance and reporting for management, regulators and boards

• Protecting sensitive data while enabling secure cloud, technology and AI-enabled transformation

• Reducing complexity from fragmented tools, providers and manual security processes

• Building a cyber operating model that can adapt to changing threats, technologies and regulations

Without a more structured and integrated approach, cyber operations can remain reactive, costly and difficult to govern, limiting the organization’s ability to protect critical assets, respond efficiently to emerging risks and provide stakeholders with a clear view of where cyber investment is creating value.

Solution benefits

Cyber Managed Services helps organizations improve their cyber resilience and makes cyber risk easier to govern, prioritize and explain. By combining managed operations, threat intelligence, exposure management, identity, data protection and reporting, organizations can reduce operational pressure and strengthen confidence in their cyber function.

Greater agility and technology leverage

• Easier adaptability of cyber operations in response to evolving technology environments, threat patterns and regulations

• Access to specialist capabilities, advanced technologies, automation and threat intelligence that may be difficult to build internally

• Improved capacity to support large-scale technology transformation while maintaining cyber control, resilience and cost efficiency

Clearer visibility of cyber risk

• Greater transparency over vulnerabilities, threat activity, control gaps and remediation priorities

• Readily visible interconnection between technical cyber issues and business risk

• More meaningful reporting for management, risk owners, regulators and boards

More focused use of cyber investment

• Reduced complexity from overlapping tools, providers and fragmented operating models

• Better prioritization of cyber activities based on risk, impact and business relevance

• Improved ability to direct cyber spend toward capabilities that strengthen resilience and digital trust

Improved operational discipline

• More consistent service routines for monitoring, escalation, investigation, remediation tracking and reporting

• Clearer accountability across internal teams, external providers and cyber service areas

• Better use of automation, analytics and threat intelligence to support recurring cyber operations

Access to specialist cyber capabilities

• Access to expertise across threat detection and response, exposure management, digital identity, data protection, cloud security, OT security and cyber risk

• Support for changing threat patterns, regulatory expectations and business transformation needs

• Reduced pressure on internal teams, allowing them to focus more on cyber strategy, business engagement and risk ownership

In effect, Cyber Managed Services offers organizations a scalable approach to support their efforts toward protecting and governing their digital environment and enhancing their cybersecurity operations.

Why EY

EY offers cybersecurity transformation, managed cyber operations, technology, risk and incident response experience that organizations can draw on to operate cyber capabilities in a more integrated and business-aligned way. The approach supports both transformation and steady-state operations, helping organizations strengthen resilience and manage cyber risk across complex digital environments.

EY Cyber Managed Services combines modular capabilities across threat exposure management, threat detection and response, digital identity, data protection, cloud security, cyber architecture and cyber risk reporting. This modular approach allows organizations to address priority risk areas first, while building a more connected cyber operating model over time.

EY’s delivery model is supported by global cyber capabilities, technology platforms, alliances, cyber centers and onshore, nearshore and offshore delivery options where relevant. The service can be configured around the organization’s maturity, existing technology environment and operating model, while maintaining focus on business outcomes, service governance and long-term cyber value.

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