Security as a Service — few words

I am going to write after a long time. Don’t know why I messed up my writing with my talking. In this post I would like to focus on an aspect that looks promising for service providers, that holds alot of thinking for service takers, and that demands alot of creativity when it comes to seperating on-premises security notions to the off-premises security notions. By default, what we assess from the bare term is that Security might not be dealt with weapons that one posses to tackle attacks. Why would someone think of getting security services that are coming entirely from outside? But when thought and provided in a manner that is much more intuitive than the notions of endpoint security or in-network access gateways, this new tool can give benefits to companies in search of a secure off-the-hook solution and new business models for the security service providers.
Costs for such a service should not be considered as benefit, because normally costs adjust themselves to come to a point where it becomes equally costly as compared to buying a solution without a cloud aspect into it. But reliability, and 24/7 access to a service that meets security can be a good starting point. Security assurance being the second parameter will be a good thing to consider. Two reasons which are provided by the security service providers for providing security-as-a-service are economies of scale and streamlined delivery mechanisms. What exaclty that means? Reach to SMBs? pick-your-own-profile type features? or what? In this respect all consumers have to do is to get educated. They have to know what exactly security-as-a-service offering implies, what it caters for, why its beneficial, and why they have to consider it in decision making. This is the responsibility of the service provider to provide needed documentation, demos, etc to educate the consumer. Since economies of scale means it might reach much more consumers, so an emphasis of education is a must have by the service provider.
I will end few words here. I hope to come back with a deeper look into that.
Till then have a nice time.