Tag: cyber security
The dangers lurking in SMB networks
The most significant risks to your SMB customers don’t always come from threats with catchy names like Wanna Cry. Instead, the biggest threats can come from sources with names that are often more mundane like “Paula in Accounting” or “Dave...
Threat hunting could be very good for managed services providers
In their zeal to be seen to be doing more about cybersecurity, vendors are increasingly embedding threat monitoring capabilities within a variety of applications to make it easier to hunt for malware. But even when vendors decide to make threat detection...
Fileless attacks are lurking threats
You’ve installed all the latest antivirus programs and firewalls for your SMB clients, and their networks are safe and sound. When things are working well, a calm status quo makes everyone happy. Unfortunately, a placid surface doesn’t necessarily mean there’s...
Biggest cybersecurity challenge MSPs face today is pride and prejudice
A recent survey of 250 senior IT leaders suggests that when it comes to cybersecurity, organizations are reluctant to completely outsource the management of their security operations centers (SOCs). The State of SOAR Report 2018 survey was conducted by Virtual...
When the vulnerabilities hit your CPU, you can only wait for patches
Just when you thought it was safe to open up your computer, word emerged this month of another Intel chip vulnerability called L1TF / Foreshadow or more commonly just Foreshadow. According to TechRepublic, it’s eerily similar to the Spectre/Meltdown issues discovered...
Foreshadow foreshadowing trouble ahead?
Foreshadow has joined Spectre and Meltdown on the list of Intel’s announced chip security vulnerabilities this year. Intel announced the vulnerability and released a well-produced video explaining the lapse and recommended fixes. While Intel’s response to Spectre and Meltdown earlier...
How MSPs can help conquer K-12 security challenges
The ubiquitous yellow school buses are starting to rumble down the roads. High school athletes can be seen out on practice fields. Work-from-home parents will soon have their days “free” again. And for MSPs that manage school networks, summer breaks...
Clive Longbottom: MSPs need to think beyond physical security
As an MSP, you probably spend a lot of time making sure that your platform is secure — using long, complex passwords and (hopefully) two-factor authentication wherever possible; specifically named superuser accounts, rather than general shared sysadmin ones; heuristic-based anti-malware...
When it comes to security, even your fax machine could be vulnerable
The fax machine, that ancient document-transmission tool, is still in use in many offices. You would think that technology that was invented in the 19th century, and popularized in offices in the 1980s, would be fairly safe when it comes...
MSPs can look to provide end users with cybersecurity training
Given the costs of investigating security breaches and then cleaning up after them, managed service providers (MSPs) arguably now have a vested interest in training end users to better recognize cybersecurity threats. After all, it’s the MSP that usually absorbs...
