Month: December 2019
Cybersecurity preparations for the holiday season
‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the network, not a creature, was stirring, not even a virus. When out on the server, there arose such a clatter, the technician sprang to their portal to see what was the...
Beware marketing promises vs. reality
If we want our companies to grow, we need to shift our marketing mindset beyond the quick, easy marketing tactics. If your day is anything like mine, you see the same pitches every time you log into your email and...
Content Shield now integrates with Barracuda RMM
The modern workforce is becoming more mobile. Often, businesses have remote workers and road warriors with laptops who can connect any time, at any place. Unsurprisingly, this poses security challenges for MSPs tasked with protecting customers who use these devices....
Tech Time Warp: Teens left their fingerprints on the Goner worm
Much like the “Wet Bandits” left their signature (running water in a stopped-up sink) on home burglaries in the holiday classic Home Alone, the Israeli teenagers arrested in December 2001 for spreading the Goner worm signed their work — and...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Email Bombing
Advisory Overview Threat actors have recently increased attempts to take email servers offline by overloading the servers with thousands of email messages (known as “email bombing”). This attack is similar to a Denial of Service (DOS) attack, where hundreds of...
Shining light in the darkness: the need for advertising
The nightmare for any company is when they know that they have a great product, yet it just isn’t moving in the market because no one knows about it. The company knows that it needs to advertise what it does,...
The growth of IoMT and what it means for MSPs
We know that IoT is transforming the landscape for MSPs. MSPs that once simply had to monitor and maintain a bare-bones network, now must contend with everything from connected coffeemakers to myriad BYOD items. There is a sub-variant of IoT that’s...
Shift to the hybrid cloud drives increased reliance on MSPs
Just about everyone agrees that more application workloads will be moving into the cloud. The only real question now, is to what degree. A survey of 508 IT professionals conducted by Internap (INAP), a provider of managed services, finds that...
AWS re:Invent should have lots of news for MSPs
This week is AWS re:Invent, the company’s massive annual customer conference taking place in Las Vegas. It’s typically packed with news about new features and services, and you should be paying attention to what new stuff could benefit your clients...
Ask an MSP Expert: How can growth hacking help my MSP business?
Q: I have heard stories of other tech companies who utilized growth hacking to take their business to the next level. What is it and how can it grow my business exponentially? Growth hacking has become a popular strategy for...