Kaseya is seeking to hire security operations center (SOC) analysts as part of an aggressive hiring plan at the MSP software provider.The overall plan calls for Kaseya to hire 500 employees in its Miami office by the end of 2022. The hiring effort will involve sales, marketing, customer support and technical roles that extend beyond Miami to Las Vegas, Vancouver and Dublin.The SOC hiring push comes after Kaseya acquired RocketCyber in February 2021. The deal tucked MDR (managed detection and response) and SOC as a Service (SOCaaS) capabilities into Kaseya's overall MSP software business. RocketCyber has 11 employees listed on LinkedIn as of May 2021.Leveraging that foundation, Kaseya is building out a managed SOC in Miami to offer MSP partners 24x7 surveillance by cybersecurity analysts who "detect and respond to threats across endpoints, networks and the cloud," the company says.August 2020: Graphus for cloud-based email security and phishing defenses; May 2019: ID Agent for dark web monitoring; and September 2018: RapidFire Tools for network and security assessments. Kaseya's rivals have also been making security-related moves. Examples include:ConnectWise acquiring Perch Security and StratoZen; Datto acquiring BitDam and adding anti-ransomware capabilities to its RMM platform; N-able partnering with SentinelOne for endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions; and NinjaRMM hiring cybersecurity professionals as part of a red team threat hunting build-out. Elsewhere, pure security companies such as Barracuda, Huntress, Netsurion, Sophos and Stellar Cyber have overwhelmingly MSP- and MSSP-centric partner programs in place.