As the cybersecurity threat landscape becomes more complex, organizations are struggling to keep their data, applications secured, Galaxy Backbone and DataSixth (a pure-play MSSP) announced partnership to address the myriad of cyber threats.
This is was contained in statement signed by Galaxy Backbone’s Head, Corporate Communications, Mr Chidi Okpala on Thursday.
According to the MD/CEO Galaxy Backbone, Prof. Muhammad Bello Abubakar, the overall purpose of this partnership is to, strengthen the national cyber posture, increase cybersecurity resilience, the efficiency and quality of public administration service in Nigeria.
“The requirement for enabling cybersecurity services in today’s ever-changing threat landscape is becoming an increasing national level priority. Galaxy Backbones relentless focus on delivering expert solutions as a government trusted advisor to its clients, means that the business is ideally placed to deliver cyber resilience and threat reduction.
“In reaching this vision for the nation, Galaxy Backbone believes the expanded services in cybersecurity ensures that end customers are provided best in class cybersecurity services and to be the clear choice for cybersecurity, tied to its multi- layered cloud solution that safeguards organizations against malware and contains and stops data breaches in real-time.
“Galaxy Backbone MSSP offering will help MDAs & private sector organisation to overcome their security challenges so teams can focus on important and fluctuating business initiatives. Galaxy Backbone MSSP delivers: Enhanced visibility through real-time monitoring of your network traffic and malicious activity;
Sleep insurance knowing your environment has ‘eyes on glass’ 24x7x365; Access to cybersecurity experts who have a deep understanding of todays threat landscape and the latest security technologies available.
“Together, both companies will enable MSSP services to MDAs leveraging its SECaaS (security-as-a-service) to deliver cyber resilience capabilities. The partnership offers a variety of cybersecurity capabilities, from proactively hunt for cyber threats, to forensic analysis, incident response and provision of threat remediation plans”, the statement contained.
On his part, DataSixth founder Michael Anyanwu said, “We are excited about the prospect of joining in partnership with Galaxy Backbone at this critical stage of our growth journey. In our opinion, Galaxy Backbone has an enormous potential to set new standards in cyber security including providing managed detection and response services, security analytics and data protection across the country and Africa at large
“DataSixth SOCaaS tracks, identifies and responds to cyber events in real-time and is supported by security analysts who perform threat detection, analysis and remediation. It also offers cyber threat intelligence and forensic capabilities and uses a timely alerting process to reduce false-positive alerts”, he stated.
Recalled that Galaxy Backbone is the information technology and shared services provider of the Federal Government of Nigeria.
Meanwhile DataSixth Consulting delivers Cybersecurity Intelligence, skilled cyber security specialists dedicated to providing expertise in Security, Risk Consulting, Managed Security Services, Managed Detection and Response.