Cybersecurity is complex and moves fast – most organizations can't manage it on their own. In today's ever-changing threat landscape, your security should be frictionless and allow you to focus on your core business. Security products must be easy to configure, work out of the box, feature intuitive workflows, and be available as fully managed services.

When choosing a security product, it's important to understand its upfront cost, long-term overhead, and operational expenses. For example, the security products offered by Microsoft may be considered complex and unintuitive. Manual tuning of features requires you to commit substantial time and resources to learn how to use, configure, and fine-tune them. Many Microsoft settings are not on by default which could be putting your company at risk. If you want to rely solely on your E3/E5 license, ask yourself the following questions:

• Who will fine-tune, run, and administer it in your environment?
• How will you protect against attacks designed to bypass Windows' defenses?
• How will you hunt for, investigate, and remediate hidden threats that are not handled automatically?

Customers increasingly look to security experts to help them deal with advanced cyberthreats. Hiring and retaining cybersecurity experts has become fiercely competitive and costly. Most organizations have started to look externally for the help they desperately require to protect against cyberattacks and data breaches.