Tag: cybersecurity
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Cyber Threats Targeting Consumers During Holiday Season
The holiday season is once again upon us, and with it comes the busiest time of the year for shopping and traveling. Specifically, from late November to early January of the new year is a time where attackers will be...
Will 2022 be the year of AI in cybersecurity?
A lot of the hype around AI has diminished over the past year as companies struggled to manage their increasingly remote workforces during the pandemic. AI didn’t go away in 2021; it just didn’t grab headlines like the splashy and...
How Barracuda is empowering MSPs to become security-centric
We’re excited to share a few key product milestones and sales growth achievements from the Barracuda MSP business, which delivered strong growth and innovation in MSP security solutions, accelerated by the increasing number of MSPs growing a security-centric portfolio. Recent highlights for Barracuda...
State of cybersecurity report reveals vulnerabilities
Smarter MSP has written frequently about the positive impact of employee training on cybersecurity readiness. Education and training are the cheapest and most effective weapons one has against bad actors. A recent report on cybersecurity and privacy underscores the vulnerability...
Cybersecurity talent shortage poses cybersecurity risk
Many MSPs are in the same boat as restaurants, hotels, hospitals, and funeral homes: not enough workers. Some estimates point to 500,000 vacancies in cybersecurity-related jobs, and MSPs represent a share of those vacancies, lacking the cybersecurity talent to fill...
Get ready for Scams Awareness Week 2021!
Scams Awareness Week is an annual national campaign by the Scams Awareness Network, a group of Australian and New Zealand government agencies with responsibility for consumer protection. This year, the theme is ‘Let’s talk scams’ and will take place from...
2022 should see more spending on security
The annual State of IT report released by Spiceworks Ziff Davis, a global marketplace that connects technology buyers and sellers with the most actionable and precise intent data, shows that managed services spending is projected to increase in 2022. One specific...
Increase in cyber resiliency is a trend for MSPs to follow
You can fortify your client’s network by installing firewalls, restricting lateral movements, putting MFA and VPNs in place, and implementing training. But sometimes, all the protections in the world aren’t good enough if someone makes a mistake and opens a...
How hackers use phishing in ransomware attacks
Phishing attacks work because people like to click on things. Hackers carefully tailor attacks to their victims by collecting publicly available personal information about them and playing to their sense of urgency to get a response. The attackers only need...
Cybersecurity chain of command crucial to deterring a breach
Who’s on first? What’s on second? I don’t know who’s on third? That’s an old comedic bit from the classic comedy duo Abbott and Costello. Anyone under age 50 probably isn’t familiar with them. But if you are, that classic...
