5. Vendors, Distributors Seek An Edge In Managed Security

Leading vendors and distributors have invested in building, partnering or integrating their managed security offerings to provide their customers with a richer and more complete set of tools.    

Avnet in November launched a managed security service focused on providing SMB and midmarket customers with intrusion detection, vulnerability assessments, and security incident and event management (SIEM). D&H Distributing partnered with AVG in August to unlock its best-of-breed antivirus, threat detection and managed services tools for the distributor's SMB channel.

NTT unified its security subsidiary brands into a single managed security services company in August, and standardized its capabilities around asset inventory, vulnerability management, policy compliance and web app security in October. And RapidFire Tools introduced a software appliance that allows MSPs to more easily identify internal threats to their customers' networks.