Mr Robot – AllSafe Cybersecurity
Though he may well be a brilliant vigilante hacker, it turns out the central character played by Rami Malek in this US thriller also needs a day job.
In the pilot episode, we therefore see Malek going about his business for reassuringly generic sounding MSSP/cyber provider ‘AllSafe’.
Although cybersecurity can’t possibly be this sexy in real life, the pilot episode does hit on some all-too-real risks for all MSPs and MSSPs.
Not only do we here AllSafe’s boss lamenting how the lion’s share of its business comes from a single client (suicide, right?), that client then goes on to threaten to take all its services in-house (ouch!).
Industry implications
Considering UK MSSPs serving the public sector are currently grappling with the threat of insourcing (not to mention it being a factor behind the demise of Scottish cyber provider Adarma), the writing team behind Mr Robot appears to have an uncanny grasp of the dynamics impacting the cybersecurity channel to market.
Plausibility rating: 7/10
See following page for an even more plausible IT solutions provider depicted on TV…
