Month: December 2022
Cloud security will finally be in the spotlight for 2023
After more than a decade of varying levels of irrational exuberance in terms of deploying application workloads in the cloud, there is now a greater appreciation for cloud security. In fact, a survey of 350 IT leaders from large enterprises...
MSPs under greater scrutiny in financial services sector
The financial services market used to be dominated by legacy banks, limiting the role of MSPs. However, as more direct-to-consumer financial services become available outside traditional banking (online banks, cash advances, brokerages, etc.), MSPs are seeing increased demand for their...
Tech Time Warp: The Kriz virus was no Kris Kringle
Even cybercriminals get into the holiday spirit. Over the years, network administrators have dealt with the likes of the CHRISTMA EXEC, the Father Christmas worm, and the Santy worm when they would have rather been drinking eggnog. In December 2000,...
Demystifying Barracuda XDR with Shani Mahler
The evolving cyberthreat landscape and the volume of cyberattacks have heightened the need for MSPs to adopt a holistic cybersecurity approach to provide the protection their customers need. The emergence of XDR (eXtended visibility, Detection & Response) has become a...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Apple zero-day vulnerability
This week, Apple has released security updates to iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and Safari web browser to address a new zero-day vulnerability that could result in the execution of malicious code. This vulnerability could potentially allow threat actors to bypass...
MSPs need to lean into zero-trust IT
There’s a lot of hype surrounding zero-trust IT as a buzzword, but at the most fundamental level it’s all about ensuring security based on a known identity of an end user, application, or device. Forrester Research analyst John Kindervag is...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Citrix Zero-Day Vulnerability
Today, Citrix has released a critical security update to address a zero-day vulnerability. Upon a successful exploitation, an unauthenticated remote attacker could perform code execution leading to system takeover. Both Citrix and the NSA stated they are aware of targeted...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: New FortiOS patches available
Today, Fortinet disclosed information regarding a vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to execute code without authentication. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-42475, has a severity score of 9.3. Fortinet mentioned that they are aware of an instance where it has...
End-of-year “office cyber-cleaning”
The end of the year is an opportune time for MSPs to do some office “cyber-cleaning” for clients. But what exactly is an “office cyber-cleaning?” “Cyber-cleaning is the fortification of office space to make them as immune from cyberattacks as...
Pioneers in Tech: John Backus makes programming accessible with FORTRAN
If you ever feel like the chips are down, consider the story of A.M. Turing Award recipient John Backus, who overcame academic difficulties, expulsion due to poor attendance, and a cranial bone tumor to develop the ground-breaking FORTRAN programming language....
