Battling cybercrime is an ongoing effort for every organization. It requires vigilance and attention to detail to maintain defenses against enemies looking to exploit every chink in the armor to penetrate corporate networks and do bad things. SMBs are particularly susceptible to cybercrime because of their limited...
As an MSP, you spend a fair amount of your time scouting new revenue opportunities, and you may have found basic security assessments are a great way to get your foot in the door. One-time security assessments can clinch a new account, and ongoing assessments...
When a client says, “All our data is stored on servers,” they are usually wrong. Yes, you read that right. It’s quite common to find legally protected data, including Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Protected Health Information (PHI) and business-sensitive data like payroll information, stored on desktops...
There's no shortage of studies and statistics about cyber crime. And while the numbers don't always align perfectly from one report to another, and from one cohort to another, the specific numbers almost don't matter. Just because cyberattacks declined for one report cycle duration doesn’t guarantee they won’t rise...
Cyberattacks have skyrocketed by more than 400 percent since the early part of 2020. And small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) were a big part of this number. Some sources report up to 71% of cyberattacks hit SMBs. Yet, 43% of SMBs lack cybersecurity defense plans, and one in five SMBs fail to use endpoint security. Why this lack...
Many MSPs find their smaller clients reluctant to invest their meager IT budgets in formidable cybersecurity. Although reports of cyber breaches seem to perpetually spread through the internet like dandelions, many clients are still resistant to paying for comprehensive security. It can be a challenge to get them to consider more than the basics. It’s all too common to hear clients say they’re “too small”...
In a recent survey conducted by RapidFire Tools, many MSPs think that internal vulnerability scans are unnecessary for most of their clients. Others acknowledge the necessity, but clients don’t want to pay for them, and the scans are too costly for the MSP to absorb....
Cybercrime is at an all-time high. One of the easiest ways for cybercriminals to gain access to an organization’s devices is through open ports. System administrators and security professionals run port scans as part of vulnerability scans to identify such open ports and avoid any...
Most of us are glad to see 2020 in the rearview mirror, but what does 2021 hold? What cybersecurity issues are keeping IT leaders awake at night in this new year? Let’s see what insiders and security professionals have to say: Top Four Cybersecurity Concerns for...
"In general, the greatest data security risk is posed to organizations by insiders…If they want to steal it or leak it, they can usually do so with far greater ease than outsiders.” ~ Joseph Steinberg, Cybersecurity Expert, Author, Entrepreneur Insider breaches account for 30 percent of all...