Tag: cybersecurity
Tech Time Warp: Why the Panix attack was a wake-up call
In this week’s Tech Time Warp, we take a look at how a work emergency is never good news—and when notice of it comes late on a Friday afternoon, it’s even worse. Especially when the news is that your internet...
MSPs need to be prepared for summer disasters
We have reached the middle of August and are on the cusp of peak hurricane season. But we don’t need a disastrous hurricane to hit the United States for cybercriminals to stalk their victims. The U.S. has already had its...
Tip Tuesday: Optimizing multi-cloud network management
Multi-cloud strategies are quickly becoming the norm for businesses today. Managed service providers (MSPs) offering cloud-based services can benefit from these architectures more than most, as their scalability and reliability create convenience for end users. However, managing multi-cloud networks can...
MSSPs need to stage cybersecurity interventions
A pair of reports conducted separately by Google and Cado Security make it clear that when it comes to cloud security, the biggest issues are mundane lapses that cybercriminals have learned to exploit easily. The Google report, for example, finds...
Biggest obstacle for MSSPs is customer overconfidence
One of the biggest issues any managed security services provider (MSSP) regularly encounters is, despite all evidence to the contrary, many IT and cybersecurity professionals remain convinced they have all the tools and processes needed to secure their IT environments....
ATOs are on the rise, and MSPs can help
Recently, a catering company owner in Kettering, Ohio started receiving odd emails: a package she ordered from Amazon had been delivered, but she couldn’t remember ordering anything. Following the Amazon incident, she received an email notifying her that her life insurance premiums...
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...
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...
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...
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...
