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Barracuda delivers strong growth in cloud email security
We’re pleased to share some exciting milestones from our email protection business, which was accelerated by increased Office 365 adoption and higher demand for Barracuda Sentinel. “We continued to see great momentum across our email protection solutions last fiscal year,” said Don...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Critical Flaws in SD-WAN vManage and HyperFlex Fixed by Cisco
Threat Update Cisco has released patches to address flaws in their SD-WAN vManage and HyperFlex HX software that could allow unauthenticated users create admin accounts as a root user. Threat actors could utilize these flaws, if unpatched, to gain access...
Ask an MSP Expert: The 3 pillars of a security-centric approach
In today’s evolving cyberthreat landscape, it is vital for managed service providers (MSPs) to take a security-centric approach to their business. Highlighting the importance of this, but making it even more challenging, is today’s climate of remote workforces, shifting perimeters,...
Healthcare is one of the most vulnerable verticals in 2021
Hackers view personal healthcare information as the holy grail of data, mining this data in exchange for currency on the dark web. HealthTech sounded this alarm in April of this year: As the attacks mature and get increasingly sophisticated, healthcare...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Over 1 Million Windows RDP Credentials Leaked
Threat Update Hacker group UAS has had 1.3 million RDP credentials for Windows servers leaked by security researchers. The compromised credentials could possibly allow a malicious actor to log into a compromised RDP server. It is imperative to keep best...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: ATPs Exploiting FortiOS Vulnerabilities
Threat Update The FBI and CISA released a joint cybersecurity advisory documenting that a number of APTs have been seen in the wild scanning for three FortiOS vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-13379, CVE-2019-5591 and CVE-2020-12812). These vulnerabilities, if exploited, can allow unauthorized remote...
Empowering clients with HIPAA-compliant WFH policies
For MSPs supporting the myriad businesses under HIPAA’s purview, the pandemic forcibly accelerated work-from-home policies that were, for many, already on the roadmap. Any forward-looking organization had anticipated future expansion of remote work practices. But the pandemic meant implementing such...
World Backup Day should focus on the recovery experience
The annual arrival of World Backup Day on the day before April Fool’s Day may not get the level of recognition it deserves, but it does provide a useful construct for managed service providers (MSPs) to draw attention to an...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Purple Fox Rootkit
Threat Update The Purple Fox rootkit has recently improved propagation capabilities which makes it easier to spread through a network. This could make it easier for threat actors to steal data from or potentially infect compromised machines with other types...
Weak human links and zero-day cyberattacks
We’ve been taking a close look at the post-pandemic environment that MSPs are finding themselves navigating in 2021. One of the questions for many is what happens if the new normal doesn’t resemble the old normal? What if corporate campuses...
