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Women in Tech: Perspectives on partner success in 2020
Depending on who you ask, “success” can mean many different things. For some, it is reaching a certain level of profitability, whereas for others, it can simply mean securing your first managed services client. Here at SmarterMSP, one way that...
MSP Day 2020 and the evolving Managed Services landscape
Help desk services. Network services. IT support. Sound familiar? They should. These three categories continue to top the list of offerings that today’s managed services providers (MSPs) predominantly sell. Their continued ubiquity in the MSP toolkit, along with managed device...
Cyber-campus during COVID-19
We all know that most office workers have spent the past two months working from home trying to carve out a secure work environment with pets, kids, and spouses coming and going. Zoom meetings are conducted from closets and kitchen...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Hackers Still Exploiting COVID-19
Advisory Overview Hacking groups are still exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to perform cyber-attacks. The United States’ CISA and the United Kingdom’s NCSC teamed up to issue a joint alert to the top threats. Recommendations are focused on...
Cybersecurity: MSPs, healthcare clients, and COVID-19
The American Medical Association (AMA) reports that during the current COVID-19 pandemic, many physicians are working from home, using their personal computers and mobile devices to help care for patients. Medical work from home (MWFH) can lead to all sorts...
MSSPs need to strike careful economic balance
Justifying the value of cybersecurity has always been a challenge because managed service providers (MSPs) are trying to ascribe a cost to an event they hopefully prevented from occurring in the first place. In effect, defining the savings derived from...
Webinar: How many advanced threats are hiding in your inbox?
As an MSP, you know that email security is getting more important every day because ransomware and other advanced threats are on the rise. According to a report from Verizon, 92.4 percent of all malware attacks are delivered through email....
Threat Spotlight: Coronavirus-related phishing
As much of the world grapples with the new coronavirus, COVID-19, and how to handle it, attackers are taking advantage of the widespread discussion of COVID-19 in emails and across the web. Barracuda researchers have seen a steady increase in...
Ask an MSP Expert: How can we protect data in a remote work environment?
Q: Most of our clients have sent their workers home to work remotely due to the COVID-19 epidemic. How can we keep our technicians and our client’s data safe? The spread of COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on businesses across the...
Churches: an overlooked MSP client base with unmet security needs
As the world becomes increasingly connected, and cybersecurity needs more prevalent, there may be one place your MSP is still overlooking: churches. There are over 400,000 churches in the United States. Most churches (apart from Amish ones) need some level...
