Month: September 2021
Cybersecurity implications of PIPL
Idyllic fields of corn and soybeans spread out in all directions from a small midwestern manufacturing campus. Tucked within a town of around 20,000 people, the facility seems worlds away. But a recent data breach on the company’s servers illustrates...
3 MSP marketing ideas for National IT Professionals Day
Thanks to social media and marketing, there’s a holiday every day of the year. These social media or marketing holidays are a great way to engage with your audience through MSP marketing, build brand awareness, offer sales or specials, and...
Survey finds MSPs “cautiously optimistic” as recurring revenues grow
Recurring revenues increased sharply for MSPs during Q2 of 2021, according to a new study released last month by Channel Futures. The second quarterly benchmark survey collected insights from 200 MSPs and MSSPs, in order to get a pulse on...
Tech Time Warp: The first FORTRAN program runs
Although FORTRAN was not commercially released until 1957, the date September 20, 1954, is also significant in the history of the groundbreaking computer language. That’s when the first FORTRAN program successfully ran while in development at IBM. John Backus worked...
MSPs must focus where IT labor skills shortage is greatest
One of the business adages that remains tried and true in any era is that identifying a customer pain point and solving it for them is a sure-fire path to success. In the case of IT organizations, a survey of...
MSPs need to keep an eye on “soft targets”
I talk to MSP owners weekly about cybersecurity trends in the industry and which trends are the most troubling. By far, what I hear about most in 2021 is ransomware. And the statistics bear out the fear of ransomware hitting...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Malicious Word Files Disguised as Windows 11 Documentation
Threat Update Security researchers have discovered recent attempts by threat actors to infect machines with malicious Word documents containing VBA macros and JavaScript to plant a backdoor and create persistence. These Word documents are disguised as documentation or information related...
MSPs can offer hosted managed desktops to customers
In my most recent post, I looked at why the use of hosted managed desktops makes sense to an organisation at a high level. In this post, I’ll drill down further as to why MSPs should be looking into offering...
The PT BUZZ Podcast: Tips for ransomware protection
PT Services is excited to kick off a new podcast series called the PT Buzz. Over the next few months, we’ll be checking in with different subject matter experts from Barracuda MSP, as we take a deeper dive into issues...
Pioneers in Tech: Luis von Ahn turns everyone into a crowdsourcer
Depending on your point of view, a CAPTCHA or a reCAPTCHA is either an annoyance (who can read those fuzzy letters, anyway?) or a boon to security, preventing fake account creation, spam commenting, fraudulent transactions, and more. But did you...
