Month: July 2023
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Critical VMware Aria Operations vulnerabilities
Two vulnerabilities were discovered in older versions of VMware Aria Operations for Networks and VMware Aria Operations for Logs. The vulnerabilities allow bad actors to perform remote code execution as the root user. Remote code execution can lead to system...
Lack of cloud expertise creates gaps for MSPs to fill
A survey of more than 900 technologists and leaders in the United States, Europe, Australia, and India conducted by Pluralsight, a provider of an online platform for learning IT skills, finds that nearly two-thirds of respondents (65 percent) are working...
State of Cybersecurity Resilience 2023: MSP opportunities lie ahead
“Cybersecurity nerds” like myself wait with bated breath for Accenture’s annual “State of Cybersecurity Resilience 2023” report to be released. This is because the report never fails to disappoint in providing a “snapshot” of the current state of cybersecurity. With such...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Critical MOVEit vulnerability discovered
A critical vulnerability has been discovered in the MOVEit Transfer software, prompting urgent action from customers to patch their systems. This flaw, identified as CVE-2023-36934, allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the affected system with elevated privileges without...
Tech Time Warp: Tron captivates audiences with 15 minutes of CGI
As with all things technological, it’s easy to take computer-generated imagery, or CGI, for granted—or even complain about CGI, in the case of the much-maligned CGI Flounder from Disney’s recent remake of The Little Mermaid. But in this week’s Tech...
Financial operations: a new managed service potential?
For the past decade, developers have been given free rein to consume cloud resources. Still, as more organizations encounter economic headwinds, a larger percentage are embracing financial operations (FinOps) to rein in those costs. Mixed results from this are creating...
A cybersecurity checklist to protect against ransomware
July is ransomware awareness month. While ransomware has been making headlines since the late 1980s, it remains prevalent and is impacting businesses of all sizes. In the ‘2023 ransomware insights report‘, our research shows that 73 percent of the 1,350...
Think you’re ready to hire a salesperson for your MSP? Think again.
I’ve got a hard truth I want to share with MSP owners: Before you hire a person to do the job, you need to master it yourself, and this is especially true with sales. I run Tech Pro Marketing, an...