Cybersecurity Services for ScanSource

ScanSource distributes point of sale, barcode, payments and physical security, which is a portfolio most people would not file under cybersecurity at all. That filing is out of date, and ScanSource's catalogue is the reason why.

A physical security deployment today means IP cameras, networked access control and video management servers. These are computers. They run embedded operating systems that are rarely patched, they are installed by integrators whose expertise is mounting and cabling rather than network segmentation, and they sit on the same networks as everything else. Point of sale is worse, because it handles cardholder data under PCI DSS and sits in retail environments with no IT staff on site. The devices ScanSource's partners install are among the most attractive footholds on a customer network, and the partners installing them were never trained to think that way.

CWS provides the security layer those integrators cannot staff. Network segmentation design, device hardening standards and PCI scope work, delivered under the partner's brand through the ScanSource relationship. The integrator keeps doing the deployment it is expert at, and stops shipping an entry point it did not know it was creating.