Month: September 2021
MSPs can help customers reduce data storage costs
Even though the cost of storing a terabyte of data has dropped dramatically over the last several years, the total volume of data being stored has resulted in a marked increase in the percentage of the IT budget being allocated...
Cybersecurity dangers when a business closes
Most MSPs are banking on their clients staying in business and hoping for a long, fruitful partnership based on delivered value and shared needs. But businesses do fail, and lurking within the ruins of a wrecked business are cybersecurity dangers...
Unified IT service delivery: Future proofing with automation
COVID-19 has forced all industries to rethink how they work. Now that remote and hybrid work are the new norm, enterprises are concerned about running into technical issues that could hamper productivity. Customers expect MSPs to maintain a unified IT...
Cybersecurity threat advisory: Lockbit ransomware on the rise
Global consulting firm Accenture was recently hit by a ransomware attack that was allegedly carried by the ransomware group, LockBit. In response, SKOUT Managed XDR (now a Barracuda offering) has updated their threat intelligence to include key indicators of compromised...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Atlassian Confluence Critical Vulnerability
Threat Update The Australian company Atlassian’s public bug bounty program has discovered a critical vulnerability in Confluence, a corporate web-based wiki developed by Atlassian. Confluence is used and trusted by companies worldwide to host internal Wiki sites that employees can...
Tech Time Warp: eBay Inc. gets its start
What are your Labor Day weekend plans? Chances are they won’t prove as lucrative as those of Pierre Omidyar back in 1995, who spent his three-day weekend launching a website called AuctionWeb from his San Jose home. We now know...
MSPs should prep now for arrival of Windows 11
Managed service providers (MSPs) should expect to see an increase in support calls around Oct. 5th now that Microsoft has let it be known this week that it plans to start making Windows 11 available on that date. While it’s...
The cybersecurity dangers of isolation
One of the biggest cybersecurity dangers of the past year hasn’t been necessarily lurking in a bad attachment. It’s another type of attachment that is causing problems: the lack of attachment. “Before the pandemic, I’d have lunch once a month...
