Description
The University of Southern Mississippi is seeking a comprehensive, cloud-delivered managed security service to enhance its ability to prevent, detect, investigate, and respond to cybersecurity threats. The solution must provide continuous monitoring, advanced threat detection, and coordinated incident response, as well as ongoing security posture optimization through reporting, recommendations, and prioritized remediation guidance. The selected solution must integrate with the University's existing enterprise technology environment and support centralized visibility and management of security events across identity, endpoint, email, server, and cloud workloads.
• The solution must be scalable, secure, and capable of evolving with emerging threats and institutional growth.
• The University is seeking a three-year agreement with the possibility of two one-year renewals.
• Respondents must provide a minimum of three customer references, including contact information, that have implemented the proposed solution and/or services in the last 12 months.
• The solution must comply with the Mississippi Department of Information Technology Services, Security Services Division, State of Mississippi Enterprise Cloud Offsite Internet Hosting Security Policy.
• The contract will be awarded to the Vendor whose proposal is the most advantageous, based on criteria including cost, requirements, and implementation schedule.