The most dangerous moment in a cyberattack isn’t the breach; it’s the delay that follows. Between detection and a full forensic investigation, attackers have a critical window to erase evidence, deepen their foothold, and transform a contained threat into a business-altering event.
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CompassMSP is the only mid-market managed security platform to integrate continuous forensic practices with direct IT remediation, eliminating the critical gap between threat detection and resolution.
CompassMSP announced a major expansion of its security services across a unified platform that bridges the gap between threat detection, digital forensics, and incident response. This new platform creates a closed-loop security operating model as the only mid-market managed security platform to integrate continuous forensic practices with direct IT remediation, all in house.
Most organizations currently face a dangerous delay between detecting a threat and initiating digital forensics and incident response (DFIR). This “DFIR gap” occurs when internal teams must hand off data to third-party providers. Compass closes this window by integrating forensic capabilities directly into its Core and Apex Security service tiers.
“Our platform is built to not only find threats, but understand them,” said Eric Hlutke, Chief Information Security Officer of CompassMSP. “This forensic-led approach grounds every response in hard evidence. We use our integrated IT capabilities to secure the environment immediately. Our Apex Security customers are already seeing the massive difference this speed and clarity makes.”
- Continuous Forensic Readiness: The system maintains a constant state of investigation, capturing evidence before an attacker can delete it.
- Regulatory & Compliance Advisory: Compass guides organizations through frameworks including CMMC, NIST, HITRUST, and SOC 2 and vCISO advisory services.
- Full-Spectrum Visibility: Teams monitor IT, Cloud, and OT assets through a single interface.
- Direct IT Integration: Security findings trigger immediate IT actions to ensure a verified resolution for every incident.
- Elite Operational Standards: The platform applies advanced security practices across every layer of the business.
This approach to managed security and IT removes the need for multiple vendors and disconnected point solutions, providing a single point of accountability for the entire security and tech stack. “Managing a dozen different security vendors creates complexity rather than safety,” said Eric Hlutke, Chief Information Security Officer at CompassMSP. “We are moving our clients away from a collection of tools and toward a single, cohesive security partner. We handle root cause analysis and seamless integration with IT operations in-house to prevent breaches from occurring.”
The expanded platform delivers capabilities previously unavailable in a single package, and represents the new wave of partnership between security and IT, that must become the standard – and we are leading the way.
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