Tag: cybersecurity
Cyber insurance carriers exerting greater influence over security services
Providers of managed security services may soon find themselves working more often for cyber insurance companies that are getting involved in cybersecurity both before and after a breach. To begin with, the requirements for renewing cybersecurity policies are becoming more...
SMBs need to invest in cybersecurity
A raft of recent reports highlight the threat SMBs face from ransomware and other lurking cyber dangers. Much of the attention has been focused on critical infrastructure: dams, power plants, utilities, and election systems. But for SMBs, essential infrastructure backbones...
Business leaders gain cybersecurity perspective
Convincing business executives even in the best of times that they need to invest more in cybersecurity has always been challenging. A survey of 722 C-level executives conducted by PwC, however, suggests the times are finally changing.
Threat predictions for 2023 from Barracuda’s security frontline
Predicting the future is hard, but you can anticipate what is likely to happen by looking at prevalent and emerging trends from the past year. As part of our 2023 threat forecast, Barracuda turned to the professionals on the security...
SEC proposing new cybersecurity disclosures
MSPs will soon likely be called upon to help clients with another cybersecurity issue, but this one isn’t about patching or installing firewalls, it’s about explaining. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposes overhauling requirements for cybersecurity disclosures by...
Cybersecurity skills gap continues to widen even as ranks swell
The (ISC)2 association of cybersecurity professionals estimates there are now 4.7 million cybersecurity professionals being employed around the world, making for an 11.1 percent increase year-over-year for a total of more than 464,000 additional jobs. At the same time, (ISC)2...
The value of holiday shopping user training
Once the calendar turns to November, people begin eyeing the dwindling days until Christmas. And with that sandglass motion of the calendar comes shopping, much of it being online. Studies about shopping, work, and cybersecurity risks are not plentiful, but...
6 Cybersecurity conversation starters
For MSPs and VARs trying to expand the reach of their services with existing clients, initiating a cybersecurity conversation around the need for solutions and services can be challenging. This is often because clients believe that their cybersecurity needs are...
Tech Time Warp: FTC Takes First Action Against Phishing
“See Yourself in Cyber” is the theme of the 2022 Cybersecurity Awareness Month, encouraging computer users to recognize their own power to detect and protect themselves from cybercrime. Few of us can say that we’ve never been tripped up by...
Make the most of Cybersecurity Awareness Month
Since 2004, October has been recognized by the United States government as Cybersecurity Awareness Month (CAM). You can read the most recent presidential proclamation of CAM here. For those of us whose roles require us to be aware of cybersecurity year-round,...