Category: Security
MSPs find opportunity in cloud security gaps
Cloud security issues are creating a major opportunity for managed service providers (MSPs) as organizations of all sizes continue to struggle with the shared responsibility model that cloud service providers require customers to embrace. A survey of 303 IT professionals...
Ask an MSP Expert: How can my MSP incorporate a “security-first” mindset into our offerings?
Q: Security is an obvious focus for our MSP, but how do we encapsulate a “security-first” mindset into our offerings when we are building them? Nowadays, when you are constructing your MSP’s service offering, security needs to be front and...
IoT security and MSPs: Just the beginning
The continued proliferation of IoT will present both challenges and opportunities for MSPs in 2021. Projections put the number of IoT devices by 2021 at over 35 billion. This parade of IoT devices ranges from security cameras to appliances to...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Critical VMware Vulnerabilities
Threat Update VMware has released an advisory detailing newly discovered vulnerabilities across multiple products, namely ESXI, vCenter Server and Cloud Foundation. The severity of these vulnerabilities varies but included among them is a remote code execution vulnerability that has received...
Partner Spotlight: MSP drives success with Email Threat Scanner
Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, Resultant’s services offerings include management consulting, IT consulting, cybersecurity, email security data analytics, and project management for businesses and non-profits of all sizes and industries, as well as government agencies. Mark Creighton,...
MSPs can safeguard clients’ personal health information
MSPs are finding themselves with more and more PHI (personal health information) to safeguard. But how do you safeguard the safeguarding? As a journalist who covers the burgeoning med-tech space, I’ve witnessed first-hand some, at best, sloppy, and, at worst,...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Oldsmar, Florida Water Treatment Facility Compromised
Threat Update A water treatment facility in Oldsmar, Florida had their SCADA systems breached by an unidentified hacker. The hacker attempted to modify chemical levels to effectively poison the local water supply. The hacker’s intrusion was swiftly detected and contained...
Beware familiarity blindness
Phishing continues to dominate security discussions as 2021 unfolds. According to Security Boulevard: “By mid-2020, SlashNext Threat Labs saw the number of daily phishing threats top 25,000 a day, a 30 percent increase over 2019 figures. By fall, the number...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Critical VMWare ESXi Vulnerabilities Exploited
Threat Update There are two critical remote code execution vulnerabilities (CVE-2019-5544 and CVE-2020-3992) within VMWare ESXi which allow attackers to effectively gain control of a virtual machine (VM), deploy ransomware, and encrypt ESXi virtual disk drives. These vulnerabilities are reported...
Hit by ransomware, a second time?
Sometimes it is easy to overlook the obvious when distracted by the meltdown of the moment. Still, MSPs and other security stakeholders need to take a holistic view when something happens. Often, an MSP may be so concerned – understandably...
