Delivering Vulnerability Management-as-a-Service (V-MaaS) is a straight-forward exercise. Set up your internal and external vulnerability scanner to run at a desired frequency; review the alert reports as they come in and determine which issues that need to be immediately addressed, which should be investigated, and...
HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) is nothing new for healthcare organizations. The legislation ensures patient data is secure and kept private due to its sensitive nature. Therefore, it’s an obvious and natural concern for the 800,000 or so organizations across the...
Network assessments are a unique and effective offering under the “network security” umbrella. A network assessment tool doesn’t simply monitor a network like RMM software does. It provides ongoing network “snapshots,” which help identify patterns and behaviors that can predict a breach. It’s a more...
We’d like to relay a story that one of our MSP customers shared with us. It truly highlights the need for compliance documentation… I could hear the fear in her voice. One of our clients, subject to the HIPAA rules, called to say she had just received...
In today’s cybercrime-fueled world, you would assume that most IT professionals are already conducting vulnerability scans. Yet when we surveyed over 1,000 MSPs to learn how they perform vulnerability scans, how frequently they do it, and for which clients, the findings were shocking to say...
The people you work with, or for, need your IT expertise to address the ever-increasing number of IT threats and vulnerabilities. We're not talking just simply having you install and set up scanners to run, but to make the most of the results of vulnerability scans...
Providing IT services is hard enough to master. Technologies change daily, clients’ needs change hourly and you’re expected to stay on top of it all. Now clients are looking for IT Compliance services too. While IT compliance management isn’t rocket science, it does require knowledge and...
The proliferation of connected devices has made it nearly impossible to manually keep track of all computers, servers, printers and mobile devices on a corporate network. Whether it’s new hires, upgraded equipment or employees embracing BYOD policies, there might be dozens of new connections created...
Millions of companies fall under specific industry IT security and privacy regulations such as PCI, HIPAA and GDPR. However, those not REQUIRED to be in compliance with these standards should act is if they are – being in compliance is good security and data privacy discipline. There are many areas of liability...
Nearly every industry and government IT security standard around the world, including the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, the Center for Internet Security (CIS 20), Australia’s Essential 8, the Department of Defense’s CMMC and PCI requires vulnerability scanning. This almost universal requirement for network vulnerability scanning stems from...