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Ten significant data breaches from 2022
2022 saw more cybercrimes than ever and they were more costly than ever. Data breaches can have significant impact to organizations. According to the FBI’s cybercrime unit in 2022, data breaches cost businesses an average of $4.35 million – up...
Threat predictions for 2023 from Barracuda’s security frontline
Predicting the future is hard, but you can anticipate what is likely to happen by looking at prevalent and emerging trends from the past year. As part of our 2023 threat forecast, Barracuda turned to the professionals on the security...
Barracuda XDR Insight: Threat severity rises during vacation months
1-in-5 cyberthreats detected between June and the end of September 2022 were higher risk, compared to just 1-in-80 in January. XDR data shows that between June and September, the top threats were successful Microsoft 365 logins from a suspicious country...
Downturns drive digital business transformation opportunities
In the face of a global economic slowdown, the one thing for certain is that necessity is about to become the mother of invention yet again. While there is no shortage of organizations that to varying degrees have already embraced...
Defending government and education organizations against cyberthreats
Every organization and individual is a potential target for cyberattacks, but the SLED (state, local, and education) market faces heightened risk. State and local government agencies and educational institutions are high-profile targets with tons of sensitive data and typically very...
Cybersecurity summits and tools to improve training
Anytime an MSP can expose its engineers and technicians to free training and education, it’s an opportunity that shouldn’t be passed up. One such opportunity is the upcoming “5th Annual Cybersecurity Summit” hosted by CISA and Morehouse College in Atlanta....
A look at back-to-school cyberthreats
As we discussed last week, back-to-school brings out hackers and cybercriminals. This week we’ll look at some of the specific threats that schools, educators, and even students face this year and what MSPs can to do help protect their education...
Cutting through the complexity of MSP profitability
Do you know if any of your customers are losing you money? It is often reported that any organisation’s profits follow the Pareto principle: 80 percent the profits come from the top 20 percent of the customers. Although this is...
Confidential computing starts to gain traction in the cloud
A survey of 452 IT and security professionals conducted by the Cloud Service Alliance (CSA) finds more than a quarter of organizations (27 percent) surveyed are already using confidential computing platforms to better protect data, with another 55 percent planning...
MSPs will be increasingly caught up in remote work debate
While the debate over the merits of enabling a much larger percentage of the workforce to work remotely intensifies as the COVID-19 pandemic becomes an aspect of daily life, it appears most organizations are now resigned to the fact that...
