Month: June 2019
Growth Hacking for MSPs: Startup Culture
If you want to achieve accelerated growth in the Managed Services industry, you can’t do it alone. Not only does it take a team, but it also requires a certain type of culture. While “startup culture” is most known for...
Ask an MSP Expert: How can we improve customers’ security posture?
Q: In today’s world, we know that security is a vital part of any managed service provider’s offering. How can we better position our security portfolio while improving our customers’ security posture? When small and medium businesses look to partner...
Tech Time Warp: “A Logic Named Joe”
If you’re looking for a good tech-related read this summer — something in the genre of Black Mirror — you can’t do any better than “A Logic Named Joe,” a short story published in the March 1946 issue of Astounding Science...
MSPs need to start embracing Kubernetes now
Now that the Kubernetes platform upon which most cloud-native applications are being built has turned five, the level of Kubernetes adoption within organizations is starting to spike. However, Kubernetes still represents a significant challenge to provision and maintain. Kubernetes may...
The healthcare slice of the MSP pie continues to grow
For the second year in a row, the top security niche that MSPs are focusing in on, is the healthcare industry. As hospitals expand and medical wearables are becoming more common, organizations with skeletal IT staffs are looking more and...
MSP improves efficiency and secures healthcare clients
San Antonio-based Information Technology Strategic Communications LLC (iTSC) specializes in IT and security services for healthcare providers throughout Texas and Colorado. Co-Founders Michelle Richard and Angel Rosa serve clients that include microhospitals, urgent care facilities, ophthalmology, optometry, and dental offices....
Survey identifies network troubleshooting as the highest IT priority
With the rise of cloud computing, applications have never been more distributed. However, the network relied on to access those applications is simply not able to meet the performance levels those applications require. A survey of 160 networking and IT...
Small businesses are increasingly looking to MSPs
Research suggests that the already substantial MSP market is growing at a fast clip. That’s because more companies are choosing to outsource their IT functions, especially as the technology mission changes to managing cloud services and building an increasingly automated environment.
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: DNSpionage Malware Finds New Way to Avoid Detection.
What is the threat? An attack campaign called DNSpionage – first detected in November 2018 – has recently resurfaced with new attack vectors and methodologies. This attack campaign redirects users via unauthorized DNS modification to malicious versions of job posting...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: New Spam Campaign Redirects Attachments to Malicious Websites
What is the threat? A new spam campaign has been discovered: These spam emails will have subject lines of “Delivery [number]”, such as “Delivery 0802” (which may appear to be from a legitimate package tracking service, vendor, or online shop)...