The City of Poway is seeking proposals from qualified Managed Security Services Providers (MSSP) who can provide a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) services solution. The goal of this effort is to ensure the City’s cyber defense layers are monitored for attacks or malicious activity and its critical IT assets are protected from such activities. The service should provide 24x7x365 real time monitoring of perimeter firewalls and multiple security zones as well as event correlation and log analysis couple with incident response and risk mitigation capabilities. The successful proposer will work with the Information Technology Division staff to implement the solution per the requirements outlined in the scope of this RFP, provide knowledge transfer and training and maintain and grow the solution as the threat landscape evolves.