Results for: ransomware
Cyber Security: Are you forgetting the Internet of Things
If you haven’t noticed the huge ransomware risk that has swept the globe in recent months, you must have been living under a rock. You know all about human error and the importance of internal access segregation, and you’ve probably...
The most telling cyber-attacks and data breaches of 2017
You’re not imagining things if it feels like you saw more headlines in the past 12 months about massive cyber-attacks and big companies being breached than you did in the past. 2017 was a year that saw ransomware become a...
Tech Time Warp: The Not-So-Merry Christmas Tree Exec
As an MSP, you might want to remind clients not to let holiday cheer get in the way of smart Internet use and security best practices. Thirty years ago, users of the European Academic Research Network (EARN) and its U.S....
Tech Time Warp: The Confounding Case of Conficker
One of the most insidious worms of all time made its debut Nov. 21, 2008, and it’s still alive and kicking today. Conficker continues to spread, thanks to installations of the beloved but now out-of-support Windows XP. Eleven million devices...
Infographic: It’s time to seize the managed security opportunity
From WannaCry and NotPetya to the Equifax breach, the alarming headlines about cyber attacks are hard to ignore, and your SMB customers are worried. Yet even as the number of threats and their level of sophistication continues to escalate, many...
Robin Robins: MSP Marketing 101 – When Opportunity Comes Your Way, GRAB IT
By the time you read this, Hurricane Harvey will be old news (I’m writing this just AS it’s starting to pop up on the news radar). As one client pointed out on the Technology Marketing Toolkit member portal, how many...
European organisations are increasingly turning to MSPs to ease security and non-compliance fears
Fear of cyber attack and new European legislation is prompting customers to increasingly seek support through managed services, driving significant growth in the European channel. This is according to a new report by 2112 Group on behalf of Barracuda MSP,...
New survey shows it’s time to put backup and recovery to the test
For as long as anybody remembers, backup and recovery has been the number one application workload type predicted to move into the cloud. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that a survey conducted by Barracuda Networks finds that just over...
Middleware starts to head for the cloud
For as long as there have been applications, the need to integrate them has driven demand for middleware spanning everything from connectors and application servers to messaging and enterprise service bus technologies. In fact, without those technologies the opportunities to...
Carrie Simpson: How to use WannaCry to sell your MSP Services
Aren’t you tired of seeing every second post on LinkedIn being about how none of so-and-so’s clients got hit with WannaCry ransomware and how so-and-so can help protect from it? Are you bored of reading about it by now? I...
