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Tuesday Feb 22, 2022

Outrage Level - Low
A really interesting article about a recent study from CrowdStrike. The premise of the article is that while cyber-attacks surged last year, 62% of those attacks did not involve malware. What does this mean? It means that old-fashioned intrusion methods are still very much alive and well today.   
It also means that we should not rely exclusively on malware intrusion defense technologies. Layered approaches to cybersecurity for MSP and customers alike are what is required. MSPs need to adopt and promote technologies to identify and prevent these non-malware intrusions.   
Highlights:  
“non-malware, hands-on-keyboard activity" still a dangerous reality for MSPs and customers. This means we should not place all our eggs into one basket, namely email defense and scoring.  
industrial and engineering sectors most targeted 
“Threat actors continue to exploit vulnerabilities across endpoints and cloud environments, and ramp up innovation on how they use identities and stolen credentials to bypass legacy defenses – all to reach their goal, which is your data,” according to George Kurtz, CrowdStrike's CEO.  
Recent claims by CISA that moving to the cloud will make us safer, may not be accurate. 
 
MSP Zone Reading Material: https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/threefifths-of-cyberattacks-2021/ 
 
This episode is sponsored by VULTR: www.vultr.com 

Monday Aug 30, 2021

It is a question we used to get often during the early days of managed services. Particularly, when organizations did not fully understand the requirements of owning IT infrastructure. To be sure, cyber threats, the complexities of managing IT, and the overall reliance on IT for business operations was must different back then compared to today.  
 
Today, however, it may seem odd to ask the question "do we need managed services?" Perhaps a different question would be more appropriate "can you survive without managed services?" 
 
Highlights:  
Vendor management 
Cyber Threats 
Scarcity of people, technology, and process 
 
MSP Zone Reading Materials: 
https://www.ilounge.com/articles/why-do-modern-businesses-need-managed-it-services-today 

Tuesday Sep 08, 2020

The war on cybercrime is now upon us. Globally, organizations of all sizes face unprecedented attacks on their IT assets. Luckily, MSPs are on the job and ready to defend against these attacks. 
But, where are the attacks coming from and what methods are being used to fulfill these cyberattacks? 
MSP Zone Guest: Terry McGraw, president of PC Matic Federal

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