Tag: cybersecurity

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Understanding the 2023 sales landscape to achieve optimal success

Understanding the 2023 sales landscape to achieve optimal success

In this 2023 sales landscape, your sales pipeline needs to grow. The sales cycle extends more than it has in the past two years. Prospects are disappearing. You’re tracking behind on critical metrics. Now you’re trying to figure out how...

/ July 24, 2023
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Tech Time Warp: How human error leads to July 1997 email outage

Tech Time Warp: How human error leads to July 1997 email outage

This week’s Tech Time Warp looks at how, in a world that’s so utterly reliant on the internet, service outages are hardly uncommon anymore, whether they’re the result of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, like that which caused Microsoft...

/ July 21, 2023
report provides insights into the state of healthcare cybersecurity
The state of healthcare cybersecurity insights shared in a new report

The state of healthcare cybersecurity insights shared in a new report

Europe, in general, has been ahead of the United States when it comes to cybersecurity regulation at the governmental level, such as healthcare cybersecurity. Still, regarding industry-specific cybersecurity protocols, the record is more mixed, with some industries ahead of the...

/ July 20, 2023
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory
Critical Adobe ColdFusion vulnerability

Critical Adobe ColdFusion vulnerability

The latest cybersecurity threat advisory highlights vulnerabilities affecting Adobe ColdFusion versions 2018, 2021, and 2023, which are actively being exploited by threat actors in the wild. A successful exploitation can lead to arbitrary code execution and security feature bypass. Barracuda...

/ July 19, 2023
Tip Tuesday: Leverage generative AI to improve efficiency

Tip Tuesday: Leverage generative AI to improve efficiency

Managed service providers (MSPs) have much to oversee for companies that aren’t even theirs. Day-to-day tasks can become tedious and overwhelming. Even though businesses are finding every excuse to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI), it’s not a signal that they are...

/ July 18, 2023
A cybersecurity checklist to protect against ransomware

A cybersecurity checklist to protect against ransomware

July is ransomware awareness month. While ransomware has been making headlines since the late 1980s, it remains prevalent and is impacting businesses of all sizes. In the ‘2023 ransomware insights report‘, our research shows that 73 percent of the 1,350...

/ July 4, 2023
Tech Time Warp
Tech Time Warp: Malware in the “Form” of a boot sector virus

Tech Time Warp: Malware in the “Form” of a boot sector virus

Although this week’s Tech Time Warp topic is not as prevalent today, boot sector viruses were a widespread issue in the 1990s and 2000s. Especially common during the days of MS-DOS and floppy disks, a boot sector virus attacks a...

/ June 30, 2023
Making security pay

Making security pay

Service providers often struggle financially, even when their business is growing, because it can be challenging to achieve and maintain profitability. MSPs have seen success by adding security services to their offering to offset this challenge. However, security needs vary...

/ June 29, 2023
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Critical vulnerabilities with ASUS routers

Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Critical vulnerabilities with ASUS routers

ASUS recently released critical security updates for several vulnerabilities across multiple router models. Two out of the nine vulnerabilities are categorized as Critical, including an out-of-bounds write vulnerability and a memory corruption flaw. Barracuda SOC recommends applying the latest security...

/ June 21, 2023
Bend, don’t break: How attackers and defenders learn from each other

Bend, don’t break: How attackers and defenders learn from each other

For more than 30 years, cyber attackers and security teams have battled it out across the digital landscape, one side looking for gaps and flaws to target, the other side fixing and protecting them. The pace of the conflict is...

/ June 21, 2023