Category: Security
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Best practices for the holiday season
Barracuda MSP would like to wish everyone a happy holiday season! As organizations around the world are getting ready for some well-deserved time off, hackers are ramping up their infiltration efforts. Threat intel data indicates we will experience a sizable...
MSP cybersecurity stocking stuffers
With the holiday season in full swing, MSP employees and their clients are gearing up for parties, travel, shopping and well-deserved time off. Unfortunately, they’re not the only ones gearing up. Hackers are heading into a busy season themselves, and...
Cloud security will finally be in the spotlight for 2023
After more than a decade of varying levels of irrational exuberance in terms of deploying application workloads in the cloud, there is now a greater appreciation for cloud security. In fact, a survey of 350 IT leaders from large enterprises...
MSPs under greater scrutiny in financial services sector
The financial services market used to be dominated by legacy banks, limiting the role of MSPs. However, as more direct-to-consumer financial services become available outside traditional banking (online banks, cash advances, brokerages, etc.), MSPs are seeing increased demand for their...
Demystifying Barracuda XDR with Shani Mahler
The evolving cyberthreat landscape and the volume of cyberattacks have heightened the need for MSPs to adopt a holistic cybersecurity approach to provide the protection their customers need. The emergence of XDR (eXtended visibility, Detection & Response) has become a...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Apple zero-day vulnerability
This week, Apple has released security updates to iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and Safari web browser to address a new zero-day vulnerability that could result in the execution of malicious code. This vulnerability could potentially allow threat actors to bypass...
MSPs need to lean into zero-trust IT
There’s a lot of hype surrounding zero-trust IT as a buzzword, but at the most fundamental level it’s all about ensuring security based on a known identity of an end user, application, or device. Forrester Research analyst John Kindervag is...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Citrix Zero-Day Vulnerability
Today, Citrix has released a critical security update to address a zero-day vulnerability. Upon a successful exploitation, an unauthenticated remote attacker could perform code execution leading to system takeover. Both Citrix and the NSA stated they are aware of targeted...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: New FortiOS patches available
Today, Fortinet disclosed information regarding a vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to execute code without authentication. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-42475, has a severity score of 9.3. Fortinet mentioned that they are aware of an instance where it has...
End-of-year “office cyber-cleaning”
The end of the year is an opportune time for MSPs to do some office “cyber-cleaning” for clients. But what exactly is an “office cyber-cleaning?” “Cyber-cleaning is the fortification of office space to make them as immune from cyberattacks as...
