Category: Security
When it comes to security, even your fax machine could be vulnerable
The fax machine, that ancient document-transmission tool, is still in use in many offices. You would think that technology that was invented in the 19th century, and popularized in offices in the 1980s, would be fairly safe when it comes...
MSPs can look to provide end users with cybersecurity training
Given the costs of investigating security breaches and then cleaning up after them, managed service providers (MSPs) arguably now have a vested interest in training end users to better recognize cybersecurity threats. After all, it’s the MSP that usually absorbs...
How MSPs can help keep elections secure
While most of the the country has been focused on the waning days of summer vacation, splash pads, swimming pools, and back-to-school sales, the eyes of the political world were focused on a tiny slice of Ohio this week in...
Ask an MSP Expert: How can I capitalize on AI as an MSP?
Q: AI seems to be everywhere I look these days! How can I capitalize on the AI opportunity as an MSP? What ways should I be using it? Artificial intelligence can feel like a buzzword, but MSPs that are paying...
BYODs and MSPs: Security headache or harmless convenience?
BYOD. Sounds like something you’d see scrawled on an invitation to a party. Actually, if you attend the parties I do, “Bring Your Own Device” would be accurate. Nowadays, everyone sits around and scrolls on their devices. If someone does...
Smart homes highlight growing IoT security vulnerabilities
Smart homes — residences powered by connectivity and the cloud — are exploding in their proliferation. Statista’s statistics predict the number of homes in the U.S. with “smart appliances” will jump from roughly 15 million today to 37 million by 2022. And that’s...
How Google neutralized phishing attacks and what you can learn from them
Google announced a remarkable achievement this week — not one of its 85,000 employees has been the victim of a phishing attack since the beginning of 2017. Phishing refers to when a hacker sends an email that looks authentic for...
Residential managed services: New frontier or urban legend?
Among the reams of material I read each week about cyber security, I saw that the rise of residential managed services is something of an “MSP urban legend.” People keep saying it’s going to happen, but it hasn’t. At least...
How MSPs can help secure the power grid
Much of the eastern United States has been slogging through a hot, humid summer. Places like Burlington, Vermont recently recorded its highest low ever, with the temperature not dropping below 80 degrees at night. A stifling summer isn’t the time when...
Introducing Managed PhishLine
How confident are you that your SMB customers and their employees know how to recognize a phishing attack? Most likely the answer is not very. According to Barracuda’s 2018 Email Security Trends Report, 84 percent of IT security professionals said...
