Blackpoint Cyber Extends MDR Service to Improve Cyber Resiliency – Source: securityboulevard.com

Blackpoint Cyber today at the 2025 RSA Conference unveiled a unified security posture and response platform that is based on the company’s managed detection and response (MDR) service.

Company CTO Manoj Srivastava said the CompassOne platform provides organizations the tool to discover assets along with the guidance needed to improve their security posture.

The overall goal is to enable cybersecurity teams to replace the number of tools and platforms that might otherwise be required to provide that same level of visibility and context, he added.

The Blackpoint Cyber MDR service is based on a security operations center (SOC) the company operates 24/7 on behalf of managed service providers (MSPs). It’s not clear how many organizations are currently relying on managed security services, but the end customers of those MSPs need a way to simply understand the nature of the threats they face, Srivastava said.

CompassOne enables that by, for example, surfacing security posture ratings using a letter grade that is easily understandable, he added. Organizations can then also leverage the service to block unauthorized software from running in addition to thwarting ransomware, zero-day exploits and insider threats, noted Srivastava.

Additionally, the service also makes it simpler for organizations to ensure compliance with various compliance mandates by automatically capturing, storing and analyzing security logs, he added.

Finally, CompassOne lays the foundation for Blackpoint Cyber to also soon add artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to its service, said Srivastava.

While there is a general consensus over the shortage of cybersecurity expertise, many organizations are trying to hire cybersecurity professionals that would be better off relying on MSPs, he noted. Arguably, there is no real shortage of cybersecurity expertise, added Srivastava. Rather, that expertise is now being more efficiently made available via service providers, he said.

Ultimately, AI may force the issue. Cybersecurity teams that rely on a hodgepodge of tools are not going to be able to normalize data formats in a way that is consumable by AI models at the level of scale that service providers can. As a result, organizations that rely on service providers might soon be fundamentally more secure than those that continue to integrate disparate tools and platforms on their own. One way or another, it’s now more a question of the degree to which organizations will rely on external expertise rather than trying to build and maintain cybersecurity tools and platforms completely on their own.

The one thing that is certain, in the meantime, is that cyberattacks will continue to increase in volume and sophistication as adversaries similarly rely on automated services infused with AI capabilities. After all, as cybersecurity continues to devolve into an AI arms race, the only way to win it will be to spread the cost for building those capabilities across as many organizations using the same core set of services as possible. Otherwise, the cost of that AI arms race is likely to be too prohibitive for most organizations to actually win.