Month: November 2019
The increased need for auditing
The best and the worst thing about modern IT platforms is that they are flexible and change can happen extremely rapidly. So, why do the same capabilities create such diametrically opposite issues?
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: PHP Vulnerability Affects PHP-FPM
Advisory Overview NGINX is a highly popular website platform which utilizes many different plug-ins and add-ons to enhance its native functionality. NGINX websites which use PHP-FPM (a set of software technologies that work to improve website performance and page loading)...
Tech Time Warp: Mozilla Foundation releases Firefox 1.0
In 2004, you might have assumed Microsoft had won the browser wars for good. At the start of the year, 85 percent of web users relied on Internet Explorer.
Cloud storage tools have always been a boon to SMBs
If you’re old enough, chances are you remember a time in this century when moving files around was a challenge. If you had a file on your hard drive or shared drive at work and needed to carry it with...
Digital business transformation initiatives need MSPs with data management expertise
A survey of 450 digital transformation leaders conducted by the market research firm Vanson Bourne, on behalf of Couchbase, a provider of a document database, finds that organizations will spend an average on $30 million on these types of project...
Another ‘-ish’ MSPs need to watch
When it comes to MSPs, there is one set of letters that causes indigestion: ‘-ishing.’ Phishing is the biggest headache, of course. Successful phishing expeditions have led to many network breaches in businesses large and small. Recently on Smarter MSP,...
Here’s where to get started with cold email campaigns for MSPs
In a lot of my discussions with MSP business owners, I find that people are often receptive to the idea of conducting cold email outreach campaigns… they’re just usually not sure where to begin. We all know what a cold...
MSPs as my co-pilot: How managed services are evolving
With the rate at which workloads have been moving public clouds, it may not come as a surprise to managed service providers (MSPs) that capital spending in hyperscale environments is increasing. A survey of 200 IT decision makers published by...
Partner Spotlight: How one MSP solved their email problems
In 2010, Tom Burtzlaff founded CMIT of Columbia. Over the years, Burtzlaff and his team built up the business to more than 50 managed services clients with a 97 percent customer retention rate. Earlier this year, the company was sold...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Exploit Found in Google Chrome
Advisory Overview Google Chrome is an extremely popular Internet Browser produced and distributed by Google for free. Within the last week, two vulnerabilities have been found in the browser that can allow an attacker to execute scripts and other actions...
