Month: January 2020
A threat to watch in 2020
Each year brings new threats, evolutions of old ones, and the typical arms-race between the good guys and the bad guys. One of the virtual battlefields expected to be active this year based on end-of-2019 trends: online advertising.
Identity access management emerges as major opportunity for MSPs in 2020
Managed service providers (MSPs) are keeping an eye out for any opportunity to expand the portfolio of services they offer. The challenge is determining what pain point affects a broad enough range of customers to financially sustain a practice. At...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Rise in Malicious Cyber Activity by Iranian Regime Actors
Advisory Overview There has been a rise in recent malicious cyber activity directed at United States industries and government agencies by Iranian regime actors and proxies, according to the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)...
2020 brings mounting pressure to MSPs’ defense against social engineering
In 2020, attackers using social engineering techniques to deliver payloads of malware will continue to adopt mainstream business practices – becoming as professional in their operations as the organizations they attack. In turn, businesses are seeking to become harder targets...
How to help your clients build a mobile app with no-code tools
Most SMB owners probably think that having a mobile app is a goal that’s out of reach. They likely find that maintaining their website is a challenge, never mind finding the resources to build a mobile app. However, your MSP...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: LifeLabs Cyberattack & Data Breach
Advisory Overview During October 2019 LifeLabs experienced a large-scale ransomware incident where attackers potentially gained access to various pieces of personal information for up to 15 million customers primarily within the British Columbia & Ontario areas of Canada. LifeLabs reportedly...
Tech Time Warp: The lesson to learn from Y2K, 20 years later
It’s cool 20 years later to snicker about the non-event Y2K turned out to be. However, the programmers who spent long hours ensuring it was a non-event get a bit defensive about that — and rightfully so. After all, their...
Does your 2020 business plan include these critical details?
The CORE of what I teach is summed up in a favorite quote from my long-term mentor Nido Qubein: “Who your customer is today is a piece of data; who your customer should be is a piece of strategy.” Yet,...
How to strengthen your MSP ecosystem
With competition continuously evolving, and the number of low-cost providers attempting to lure new business by racing to rock bottom prices, it’s more critical than ever for managed service providers to deliver and differentiate themselves based on quality and consistency....
MSPs need to get business leaders more involved in cybersecurity decisions
Managed service providers (MSPs) have been benefiting from increased spending on security software and services throughout the past year. However, while industry analysts report that spending on security has, on average, increased by 9 percent on a year-over-year basis, a...
