Category: Security
Partner Spotlight: Eliminating security silos with Barracuda XDR
CMIT Solutions of Portland Central has served the Portland, Oregon community as the region’s premier managed IT services provider since 2018. Over the past five years, CEO and owner Ian Miller says he’s seen a dramatic shift in the cybersecurity...
The rising role of vCISO
Cybersecurity threats continue to rise, but the available IT talent pool is shrinking. In fact, studies show there is still a need for more than 3.4 million security professionals, which is an increase of more than 26 percent from 2021....
MSPs must place training bets carefully
There has always been a fine line between when an emerging IT platform creates enough demand for managed services and when it essentially becomes a commodity that most internal IT teams can manage on their own. Timing that transition is...
Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2023: Events, security tips, and more for MSPs
Since 2003, October has been declared National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) by the United States government, and each year, cybersecurity experts and communities across the world come together to share information about how to remain safe online. NCSAM itself is a collaborative...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: New Cisco vulnerabilities discovered
Cisco is warning of five new Catalyst SD-WAN Manager product vulnerabilities. The most critical vulnerability allows unauthorized remote access to the server. Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in SD-WAN Manager that allows an attacker to access the compromised instance or cause...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: WS_FTP Server vulnerabilities uncovered
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in all versions of WS_FTP Server. The critical and high vulnerabilities include a directory traversal flaw (CVE-2023-42657) with a CVSS score of 9.9, a high-severity reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) issue (CVE-2023-40045, CVSS 8.3), a SQL...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: New Microsoft Word vulnerability
A new Microsoft Word vulnerability, CVE-2023-36761, was disclosed by Microsoft. This new vulnerability is rated 5.3 by NIST, a medium-level vulnerability but Microsoft has rated this as “Important”. Barracuda MSP recommends reviewing this Cybersecurity Threat Advisory in detail and follow...
From Basics to Breakthroughs: Evolution of IT security in the 1980s
As part of our 5-part series on the evolution of cybersecurity, check out our first article below that covers how War Games and Worms led to the creation of the first cybersecurity efforts in the 1980s. While cybersecurity is a multibillion-dollar...
SMBs must prioritize cybersecurity planning
Cybersecurity vulnerabilities connected to large businesses have received much attention recently, especially the several casinos in Las Vegas that were forced to go offline due to cyberattacks. Casinos are a vital economic engine in Nevada, but it’s not just sprawling...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Apple releases patches for zero-day vulnerabilities
Apple has released more security patches after three zero-day vulnerabilities were discovered in iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, WatchOS, and Safari. These vulnerabilities are actively being exploited in the wild against several frameworks and systems of Apple products, making sixteen total zero-days...
