Tag: cybersecurity
Barracuda cited as leader in enterprise email security
Barracuda was among the companies invited to participate in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Email Security, Q2 2021. In this evaluation, Barracuda was cited as a Leader in the category. The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Email Security, Q2 2021 is a guide...
Five cybersecurity mistakes MSPs are making in 2021
Over the years, the MSP business has evolved, but in most cases, it was still relatively “formulaic.” For example, there was a process and a protocol for ferreting out security issues, that stayed pretty much the same from MSP to...
Ask an MSP Expert: The 3 pillars of a security-centric approach
In today’s evolving cyberthreat landscape, it is vital for managed service providers (MSPs) to take a security-centric approach to their business. Highlighting the importance of this, but making it even more challenging, is today’s climate of remote workforces, shifting perimeters,...
Healthcare is one of the most vulnerable verticals in 2021
Hackers view personal healthcare information as the holy grail of data, mining this data in exchange for currency on the dark web. HealthTech sounded this alarm in April of this year: As the attacks mature and get increasingly sophisticated, healthcare...
Making sure your vendors are secure
We’ve all heard about major breaches and the cascading impact they can have across a variety of services. As an MSP, these upstream breaches are clearly out of your control, but you can and should be questioning whether the services...
Q&A: Ethical hacking and pen testing to protect against phishing
Phishing continues to be one of the biggest threats to network security, which has led to “ethical hacking” being used to protect against it. If you’re wondering why methods like ethical hacking and pen testing are necessary to stop phishing,...
MSPs (and SMBs) can benefit from zero trust cybersecurity
The way network security has tended to work is you have a set of people you trust like employees, who you usually let in via username and password. This approach worked great when everyone was inside the firewall, but we...
The long-term cybersecurity legacy of COVID-19
COVID vaccines are starting to be distributed and administered, cases have dropped, and a real sense of post-pandemic optimism pervades the planet as springtime begins in the northern hemisphere. Despite all of the real-world and cybersecurity challenges that came about...
Four emerging MSP trends for 2021
The year 2020 completely changed the way we work, forcing us to look at and evaluate the efficiency of our processes and identify new MSP trends. Remote work, video conferencing and collaboration tools have transformed the way teams work together,...
Cloud storage security is a great opportunity for MSPs
Companies are storing more and more of their valuable data in the cloud and cyber attackers know this. However, the efficiency and productivity benefits of cloud platforms are such that businesses cannot afford not to use them, yet it is...