Category: Featured
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....
Set your MSP up for success by ‘building with the end in mind’
As an MSP owner or manager, regardless of whether you are currently planning an eventual exit, you should always be looking at ways to improve the business, processes, and add value to your MSP where you can. In my MSP.blog,...
Tech Time Warp: Apple, Quicktime, and the long-forgotten San Francisco Canyon Company
Apple’s business strategy includes software and hardware innovations, intuitive user experiences, and attractive product design that is catnip to the creative set. But another arrow in Apple’s quiver is the hard-fought intellectual property lawsuit. Let’s get into this week’s Tech...
2023 outlook – The future looks bright for MSPs
As 2022 comes to an end, we are seeing that the “Great Resignation” due to the pandemic has turned into the “Great Layoff” as the global economy adjusts to current world events. Organizations are now preparing to ride out the...
Cyber insurance carriers exerting greater influence over security services
Providers of managed security services may soon find themselves working more often for cyber insurance companies that are getting involved in cybersecurity both before and after a breach. To begin with, the requirements for renewing cybersecurity policies are becoming more...
SMBs need to invest in cybersecurity
A raft of recent reports highlight the threat SMBs face from ransomware and other lurking cyber dangers. Much of the attention has been focused on critical infrastructure: dams, power plants, utilities, and election systems. But for SMBs, essential infrastructure backbones...
Tech Time Warp: The malware RAT known as Regin
On Nov. 25, 2014, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) issued an alert about Regin, a “sophisticated backdoor Trojan used to conduct intelligence-gathering campaigns.” Journalists reported the entities affected by Regin included airlines, telecom companies, energy companies and private individuals....
Top cybersecurity tips for this holiday season
Many people worldwide are beginning to prepare for the rush of shopping, festive gatherings, and visiting in-laws as the holidays ramp up. Previously, SmarterMSP has written about the cybersecurity dangers that holiday weekends pose, and the end-of-year holiday season is...
How Barracuda uses Tines and Elastic to streamline its security incident response
Security incidents can have a devastating impact on an organization. The longer an attacker remains in the network, the more damage they are capable of causing – this is why security operations centers (SOCs) focus so heavily on efficient response...
Business leaders gain cybersecurity perspective
Convincing business executives even in the best of times that they need to invest more in cybersecurity has always been challenging. A survey of 722 C-level executives conducted by PwC, however, suggests the times are finally changing.
