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Moving from BYOD to BYOO: the opportunities for MSPs
Organisations have long struggled to manage the pivot from the use of employer-provided devices to those being sourced and purchased by the employee. The sheer diversity of devices and the lack of the means to monitor, manage, and secure them...

Q&A: Barracuda’s enhanced offering for email and endpoint protection
Expanding and improving security service offerings has become of critical importance to most MSPs over the last few years. Today, Barracuda is pleased to announce major updates to its security offerings for MSPs to enable its partners to do just...

Five qualities needed to build a ‘World-Class MSP’
‘World-Class MSP’ is a title not many MSPs achieve — and there are a couple of reasons for this. First, being a World-Class MSP isn’t easy. You need to have dedication and discipline to deliver consistent results for your customers....

Tech Time Warp: Stuxnet takes malware to the next level
Today’s action movies and thrillers routinely feature some hacker-type who—armed with a laptop in a chunky military-grade case—can infiltrate the most impenetrable of digital fortresses in a few furious keystrokes. But in the real-life case of Stuxnet, first detected in...

MSPs must watch out for TrickBot
The history of malware is littered with viruses that were created solely to obtain banking information. One of the best known in recent years has been TrickBot, and lately, it has re-emerged with increased intensity. Since at least 2016, TrickBot...

Cybersecurity predictions for 2023
The past several years have taught us to expect the unexpected regarding world events, economics, and cybercrime. However, as we head into 2023, a few emerging trends – and several ongoing challenges – will shape the type and frequency of...

10 simple games to make sales prospecting fun (seriously)
You’ve probably heard that in sales prospecting, it takes reps 10 “no’s” to get one “yes.” I think that number is outdated. In today’s market, it can take 40 voicemails to reach a live person and dozens of emails to yield a...

Cloud-native security is becoming a bigger concern
For some time now, containers as a new type of software artifact that are foundational to cloud-native applications have been appearing more frequently in production environments. Initially, most of those applications were built by sophisticated developers but as the value...

MSSPs must defend their value proposition during an economic downturn
Managed security service providers (MSSPs) are going to need to prove their worth during an economic downturn that has security leaders starting to ask tougher questions about the value of their services. A Forrester Planning Guide 2023: Security & Risk...