Tag: Zero Trust
Insider threats expected to persist in 2025
SmarterMSP.com recently covered the topic of insider threats, but many experts continue to point to these types of threats as one of the biggest cybersecurity challenges impacting organizations in 2025. The Hacker News, for instance, says: Insider threats are expected...
Experts look back at 2024’s cybersecurity news
The year 2024 was full of cybersecurity news. It was a year of data breaches, ransomware, the rise of quantum computing, and much more. The only constant was change. As ransomware continued to wreak havoc, according to Security Intelligence, ransomware...
Key strategies for MSPs to improve IoT security
As the number of connected devices continues to rise— with the International Data Corporation (IDC) forecasting over 55 billion by 2025—managed service providers (MSPs) are facing increasing challenges to deliver security at scale. In October, SmarterMSP.com posted an article about...
The rise of AI-based BEC attacks
Cybercriminals are quickly latching on to new technology and strategies to improve the success rates of their social engineering-based email attacks. In the latest Barracuda Email Threats and Trends report, the company found that although traditional email scams like phishing are...
Threat Spotlight: How ransomware for rent rules the threat landscape
This year’s annual review of ransomware attacks looks at the threat from two perspectives. First, for the third year running we’ve taken a global sample of reported ransomware attacks and analyzed what they tell us about ransomware attackers and their...
Staying cyber safe with CISA this summer
As sure as fireflies and fireworks mean summer, so do Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warnings and alerts. With parents shuttling kids to day camps, pool parties, and Disney World, summer is a prime time for cybercriminals to make...
Modern enterprises cannot rely on VPNs anymore
Is your company depending on VPNs to access documents, files, and applications remotely? Unfortunately, legacy VPN products no longer meet the security requirements of today’s global enterprise. Many employees often proactively install commercial VPNs that are not provided or sanctioned by...
5 cybersecurity takeaways from 2022
Last week we revisited some of the most significant data breaches of the year. This week, we are taking one last look at some of the other cybersecurity trends that shaped 2022. “Data breaches grab the headlines, but cybersecurity is...
MSPs need to lean into zero-trust IT
There’s a lot of hype surrounding zero-trust IT as a buzzword, but at the most fundamental level it’s all about ensuring security based on a known identity of an end user, application, or device. Forrester Research analyst John Kindervag is...