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Report: 2023 spear-phishing trends

Report: 2023 spear-phishing trends

Cybercriminals continue to barrage organizations with targeted spear-phishing attacks, and many companies are struggling to keep up. In fact, Barracuda market research finds that 50% of surveyed organizations were victims of spear phishing in 2022 — and 24% had at least...

/ May 24, 2023

Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Cisco Small Business Switches remote attack vulnerabilities

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Cisco Small Business routers, allowing bad actors to remotely execute arbitrary code with root privileges on an affected device and cause a denial of service (DoS) condition. These vulnerabilities are due to improper validation of requests...

/ May 23, 2023
AI
How to use ChatGPT for MSP outbound prospecting

How to use ChatGPT for MSP outbound prospecting

What an exciting time to be in business development for MSPs! The advent of ChatGPT has quickly improved our process. It’s given us back some time while providing us with good quality sales enablement copy that’s already getting marginal results....

/ May 23, 2023
Growing cloud complexity creates MSP opportunity

Growing cloud complexity creates MSP opportunity

More organizations than ever are employing multiple cloud service providers, but with the addition of each cloud platform, concerns about cost appear to correspondingly increase. A survey of 350 IT leaders in the U.S. and United Kingdom conducted by Virtana,...

/ May 22, 2023
KODAK Film, Tech Time Warp
Tech Time Warp: Kodak plays for KEEPS

Tech Time Warp: Kodak plays for KEEPS

Eastman Kodak’s major product announcements on May 29, 1985, remind us yet again of how far we’ve come in less than 40 years. The New York Times, The Washington Post and Associated Press all covered Kodak’s news about KEEPS (short...

/ May 19, 2023
How MSPs can prosper with pricing, incentives, and deals

How MSPs can prosper with pricing, incentives, and deals

Customers like known costs when it comes to MSP contracts. They tend to dislike the use of variables such as resource or time charges, preferring either per user or per organization charging instead. While this can work for the MSP...

/ May 16, 2023
Pioneers in Tech: Kao Chung-chin and Lois Lew, who brought IBM’s typewriter to China

Pioneers in Tech: Kao Chung-chin and Lois Lew, who brought IBM’s typewriter to China

In today’s globalized, always-connected society, another innovation we take for granted is the universality of computers despite language differences. And some of us in English-speaking countries will even go a step further and assume computers all over the world have...

/ May 12, 2023
MSPs can create value amid growing cloud costs

MSPs can create value amid growing cloud costs

A survey of 100 vice presidents from organizations with more than 1,000 employees suggests a need for increased visibility into cloud spending. This has become a major opportunity for managed service providers (MSPs) that have cloud expertise. Conducted by Vega...

/ May 11, 2023
Voice cloning – a growing cybersecurity threat

Voice cloning – a growing cybersecurity threat

Just when you think you’re reasonably on top of all the cyberthreats out there, new ones emerge. Say hello to voice cloning. Or don’t say hello to it because you don’t want a scammer to have your voice. Voice cloning made...

/ May 10, 2023 / 12 Comments
Women of the Channel – keys to success for channel partners in 2023 

Women of the Channel – keys to success for channel partners in 2023 

This week, CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, announced the highly respected Women of the Channel list for 2023. We are excited to share that a total of five Barracuda team members made this prestigious list! These highly accomplished...

/ May 8, 2023