Tag: cybersecurity
Cyber insurance is changing the rules and MSPs must adapt
For years, cyber insurance was sold to small and mid-sized businesses as a backstop that would take the sting out of a hack. In the beginning, that is what happened. But the landscape is changing fast. More than 40 percent...
Deepfakes in 2026: How MSPs can stay ahead of AI‑driven fraud
Deepfake fraud losses in North America alone exceeded $200 million in the first quarter of 2025, according to Keepnet Labs. Meanwhile, the Deloitte Center for Financial Services projects that generative AI‑enabled fraud in the U.S. will grow from $12.3 billion...
Beyond recovery: The new resilience mindset
A global survey of 1,000 business and IT decision‑makers and senior developers shows that while organizations feel more resilient than they were a year ago, many still struggle with the cost of recovery and remediation when a real IT incident...
That’s not our admin: The blind spots that open doors to attackers
Lessons from around 600,000 security alerts analyzed by Barracuda Managed XDR Takeaways In 2025, 90% of ransomware incidents exploited firewalls, and the fastest observed ransomware case took three hours from breach to encryption. The most widely detected CVE vulnerability dates...
Evolving supply chain attacks create a critical opportunity for MSPs
Supply chain attacks continue to pose a serious threat across the cybersecurity ecosystem—and like most threats, they’re evolving quickly. A supply chain attack in 2026 looks very different from one in 2021. Recent data from Risk Management Platform IO reveals...
The new face of phishing: Why traditional defenses are failing your customers in 2026
As we navigate the start of 2026, the cybersecurity landscape has reached a critical inflection point. For managed services providers (MSPs), the challenge is no longer just identifying “the bad guys;” it’s identifying the “perfectly simulated guys.” In 2025, phishing...
Welcome to ‘Ranswomare 2.0’
Ransomware attacks have evolved from simple encryption schemes into sophisticated extortion operations that render traditional defenses obsolete. In recent years, data exfiltration has occurred in 87 percent of ransomware incidents, according to the 2024 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, while...
MSPs need to move beyond monitoring to embrace observability
Monitoring has long been a foundational element of any managed services portfolio. But as IT environments grow more distributed and complex, organizations now expect service providers to go further—beyond simply tracking metrics to truly observing what’s happening across their systems...
Shadow IT: A growing risk and opportunity for MSPs
MSPs already juggle a growing list of responsibilities—and that list keeps expanding while resources do not. One issue increasingly demanding attention is the rise of employees adopting tools that neither internal IT nor the MSP has approved. This concern comes...
Start the year strong: 10 essential questions every IT team should address
It’s a new year (and also a day ending in Y), which means it’s an excellent time for you to review your security posture. Use your renewed energy to seriously analyze your vulnerabilities, detection methods and organizational procedures. Answer these...
