I’ll conduct a free security audit for you by asking just two questions. One, what is your average seat price? Two, do you have at least one person in your service delivery organization who’s 100 percent proactive? In other words, they don’t bill professional services, and they don’t do...
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Every day I have conversations with MSPs that offer insights into their customers’ reservations regarding investing in security. I often hear, “My customers don’t see the critical importance of security,” or “My customers don’t believe they have anything cybercriminals might want.” But here’s an interesting fact: Your customers possess...
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Service providers often struggle financially, even when their business is growing, because it can be challenging to achieve and maintain profitability. MSPs have seen success by adding security services to their offering to offset this challenge. However, security needs vary across customer accounts and some can be more complex...
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Make compliance risks stakeholder friendly with myITprocess! If you are an MSP, your primary responsibility is to keep your clients’ IT environments secure. Proactively identifying compliance risks is one crucial way to achieve this. However, this is only half the battle. Getting your stakeholders’ buy-in could be even more...
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Cybersecurity remains top-of-mind for many managed services providers (MSPs). According to a Kaseya survey, 50% of MSPs said their business is at greater risk of cybercrime than one year ago — an 11% increase from 2021’s data. However, cybersecurity is also a revenue driver for those same MSPs, and ignoring...
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In a previous blog post, I talked about how MSPs today have many more tools and technology than ever before. Most of these tools provide integrations to other tools. Of course, this is done through APIs. While integration can help efficiency and make a technician’s job easier, it can...
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I want you to think back to before the pandemic began in March of 2020. How have your customers’ needs changed? What are you doing for them today that you weren’t doing then? What tools have you added to your stack? What security process and governance have you added?...
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After 20 years, we’re still talking about patching. How is that possible? Recently on The CyberCall, a weekly MSP cybersecurity podcast, we discussed common threats and breaches. An Incident Response (IR) expert said that the majority of the breaches relate back to something being unpatched. We are talking patching!...
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I recently attended a cybersecurity conference for MSPs in Tampa, FL called Right of Boom. It reminded me a little bit like Schnizzfest, in the sense that it was the result of grassroots efforts, and everybody felt connected by a common purpose. The idea for this event began more...
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In case you haven’t heard, one of the unexpected consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated economic disruption has been a massive number of people quitting their jobs. Dubbed the “Great Resignation,” this mass exodus in the workforce has led to labor shortages in many sectors along with rising...
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