Category: Featured
CISA warns industrial clients are vulnerable
MSPs with industrial clients in their portfolios have a set of security issues that often differ from other verticals, and each vertical brings its own baggage. With healthcare clients, for example, it’s PHI and HIPAA regulations. With finance clients, there...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Phishing attacks targeting GitHub accounts
GitHub alerted the public that there is an ongoing phishing campaign that is targeting its users by impersonating CircleCI continuous integration and delivery platform. These phishing attacks are designed to steal the targeted user’s account credentials and authentication codes. A...
David Kern, one of the 100 people you don’t know but should
CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, recently announced their ‘100 People You Don’t Know But Should’ list for 2022. Barracuda MSP is honored to share that one of our very own, David Kern, Regional Manager of Partner Success, earned...
Tech Time Warp: District judge rules that computer code is protected by copyright
Sept. 22, 1986, marked a milestone in a protracted legal battle between Intel and NEC Corp. over copyright protection of computer code. As they fought for control of the microprocessor market, the two semiconductor companies—Intel American, and NEC Corp. Japanese—found...
Cloud security incidents on the rise
As more workloads are deployed in the cloud, it’s become increasingly apparent that most organizations are struggling with security. A recent survey of 400 cloud engineering and security practitioners and leaders by the market research firm, Propeller Insights on behalf...
Cybersecurity summits and tools to improve training
Anytime an MSP can expose its engineers and technicians to free training and education, it’s an opportunity that shouldn’t be passed up. One such opportunity is the upcoming “5th Annual Cybersecurity Summit” hosted by CISA and Morehouse College in Atlanta....
MSP marketing part 3: Special operations marketing
In part 3 of our journey in the land of MSP marketing, we look at MSPs with full specialization. In this scenario, using mining lingo, you have a very narrow specialization focus. You mine only for diamonds and are willing...
Higher salaries make IT hiring for MSPs more challenging
IT labor is still the most expensive cost any managed service provider (MSP) is going to incur, and a new report suggests those costs will only continue to rise. The report, based on an analysis of 907,000 interview requests involving...
Tech Time Warp: Fondness and appreciation for the floppy disk
The BBC recently reported Japanese digital minister Taro Kono had “declared war” on floppy disks. Approximately 1,900 Japanese government activities still require the use of floppy disks, along with CD-ROMs and other outdated technology. Kono vowed to seek regulatory updates...
MSPs should prepare now for a quantum computing leap
Quantum computing has the potential to disrupt many industries with its, until now, unimaginable speed and ability to parse and interpret data. This gradual proliferation of quantum computing will not only result in unprecedented efficiencies, but also create both opportunity...
