Question

What is Outsourcing? What is Security as a Service (SECaaS)? What criteria could be used in a RFP, evaluation of service, and what is a good exit strategy?

Answer 1

Outsourcing is the obtraining of goods and services from a foreign supplier , the company which provides the services is called as outside company or third party provider. The service provider handles operations, performs tasks to the company which hires it.

The Security as a Service (SECaaS) is the cloud computing service which is used to provide security services through internet. The advantages of using SECAAS are :

a) Costs are reduced, b) management becomes easy , c) Anti-virus Updates d) It is Customizable & Scalable

The criteria used in RFP includes Quality and Continuity and in the evaluation of service the optimization of price and quality ratio. The good exit strategy must include two parts in it, they are The outsourcing contract must include concrete agreements regaarding the insourcing and all the services and licenses , And it must include that both the parties must agree on good escalation procedure.