Month: May 2021
Redefining MSP business success: Finding your customer alpha
What does success look like in this day and age for an MSP business? Are those moments of legend, those breakthroughs still important in establishing the long-term success of a company? Following a year which has fundamentally changed so many...
Tech Time Warp: Looking back at the evolution of ransomware
The havoc wreaked by the recent Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack—which caused a gas shortage in the southeastern United States and cost the company a reported $850,000 to resolve—highlights the immense risk ransomware poses to companies and national security.
Nuanced approach to cloud service consumption is emerging
Conventional wisdom holds that, in the long-term, it’s inevitable the bulk of application workloads will be running on a cloud service, typically a shared public cloud infrastructure. However, a survey of 150 global business and IT professionals published this week...
Colonial Pipeline hack highlights vulnerabilities
We’ve been warning about the dangers of ransomware for years now on Smarter MSP, and this past week the threat hit home for millions of Americans in the form of fuel shortages and higher prices at the gas pump. While...
How will the new Executive Order implementing ZTNA impact MSPs
Following the Colonial Pipeline attack, one of the most impactful ransomware attacks to-date, the United States government issued an Executive Order which detailed a course of actions aiming to improve the government’s cybersecurity standards, specifically with zero-trust (ZTNA) security. The...
Understanding the value of MSP lead generation
As an MSP, generating leads is not an easy task. It takes strategy, persistence, and most importantly, patience. At SALT Marketing I’ve talked with hundreds of MSPs interested in growth. Each one of them had their own definition for success...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Microsoft Patch Tuesday, May 2021
Threat Update Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday release for May 2021 comes with a Windows update that will remediate a multitude of vulnerabilities. The update will patch 55 vulnerabilities, one of which is critical, 50 important, and one moderate. It also includes...
Barracuda delivers strong growth in cloud email security
We’re pleased to share some exciting milestones from our email protection business, which was accelerated by increased Office 365 adoption and higher demand for Barracuda Sentinel. “We continued to see great momentum across our email protection solutions last fiscal year,” said Don...
Pioneers in Tech: Mary Allen Wilkes, first to WFH with a computer
Remote work has long been common in the tech industry, even pre-coronavirus, but it had to start somewhere. After all, you couldn’t exactly squeeze an ENIAC in the spare bedroom. That’s why the story of Mary Allen Wilkes remains relevant...
Organizations expect return to robust IT spending with caveats
IT leaders have a natural bias toward optimism when it comes to spending on IT initiatives that isn’t as often equally shared by finance executives. Nevertheless, a survey of 340 finance executives in North America conducted by Hanover research on...
