As they seek to effectively deal with an increasingly complex and aggressive cyber threat landscape, MSPs and businesses security teams can find themselves deploying a fragmented array of security tools and dashboards. This “tool sprawl” creates visibility gaps, increases operational complexity, and hinders the ability to mount a swift and effective defense. Ultimately, it’s not much different than what often happens with any evolving technology segment, where companies add components over time seeking to enhance their capabilities, but find themselves, instead, creating an inherently more complicated and difficult-to-manage IT environment.
When you consider growing MSPs that are looking to not only deliver better services to their existing customers, but also attract new ones, this kind of inefficiency is a recipe for failure.
Recognizing the challenges fragmented security solutions create, Blackpoint Cyber has set out to offer relief by seamlessly integrating proactive security hardening with real-time detection and response capabilities into a single, unified experience. Blackpoint’s new CompassOne, its Unified Security Posture and Response platform, is designed to give organizations full command of their entire cybersecurity posture – from gaining visibility and implementing preventative measures to executing real-time response and recovery. The platform provides users with complete visibility and context across their entire attack surface, guided prioritization for addressing risks, and expert-driven insights to continuously improve and measure their security maturity over time.
The idea is to eliminate the need to use and manage multiple tools that may or may not have tight integration between them. Rather, Blackpoint is offering a simplified, yet more powerful solution that delivers visibility combined with rapid response for a more efficient approach to cybersecurity.
“The growing number of disconnected point products can actually increase cyber risk by creating complexity and visibility gaps. Many organizations are now prioritizing platform consolidation to improve efficiency and resilience. While managed detection and response (MDR) continues to see strong growth, MSPs are also considering broader solutions that support the entire security lifecycle.” — Jessica Davis, Principal Analyst, MSPs, Canalys,
Built on Blackpoint's expertise in defending against real-world threats, CompassOne provides users with a holistic view of their devices, identities, and cloud/SaaS environments through a Unified Asset Inventory. This visibility is crucial for understanding the entire attack surface, which, in turn, is crucial for successfully defending any organization from cyber threats.
To deliver on that promise, CompassOne consolidates multiple essential security functions into a single, efficient platform:
Security posture rating: Provides a clear, letter-grade rating system based on established cybersecurity frameworks to help organizations track their cybersecurity maturity and compliance progress over time.
- Unified asset inventory: Offers complete visibility across the entire attack surface, including devices, identities, and cloud/SaaS environments, embodying the principle, "You can’t secure what you can’t see."
- Tenant administrator: Provides MSPs and IT teams with complete oversight across their client bases or internal environments, enabling them to monitor clients, track renewals, manage billing, and respond to security issues instantly from a central point.
- Managed detection and response (MDR): Leverages Blackpoint’s 24/7 SOC to deliver the fastest threat detection and response in the market.
- Vulnerability management: Automates the discovery of vulnerabilities, prioritizes risks based on their potential impact, and provides clear remediation guidance to help organizations fix the issues that matter most.
- Application control: Enables organizations to block unauthorized software, a critical measure in preventing ransomware, zero-day exploits, and insider threats.
- Cloud posture management: Continuously monitors and helps remediate security misconfigurations in Microsoft 365 environments before attackers can exploit them.
- LogIC (Logging with Integrated Compliance): Provides effortless compliance support by automatically capturing, storing, and analyzing security logs to meet regulatory standards and simplify audits, eliminating the headaches often associated with legacy SIEM solutions.
“The convergence of posture management and incident response represents the next evolution in cybersecurity architecture. Organizations can no longer afford to maintain artificial boundaries between prevention and response – they must operate as a continuous, integrated cycle. Platforms that successfully unify these capabilities are positioned to deliver significant advantages in operational efficiency and security outcomes in today's resource-constrained environment.” — Craig Robinson, Research Vice President, Security Services at IDC
Importantly, for Blackpoint, it’s not all about AI and automation and it continues to rely heavily on its human-led 24/7 SOC, which doesn't just provide alerts but actively takes action to neutralize threats. CompassOne brings this same outcome-driven approach to a unified platform, adapting to the needs of both MSPs securing multiple clients and internal security teams defending their own organizations.
"With CompassOne, we’re redefining what it means to truly secure every moment," said Manoj Srivastava, chief technology and product officer at Blackpoint Cyber. “It’s the culmination of everything we’ve learned fighting real-world threats, built to help our customers stay ahead of the adversary and take control of their security posture like never before."
Edited by
Erik Linask
