MSP News - December 18, 2021

MSPs struggle with all of the cybersecurity documentation, processes, and policies that can overload their lead operators/teams, limit their business growth, and REALLY stress them out. Omnistruct serves as an MSP’s partner for the critical policies, processes, and documentation needed to keep high-value clients, win new ones—and make sure all of that data and revenue is well protected against all outside threats.

Log4j Vulnerability Timeline: Patches, Log4Shell Cyberattacks and CISA Status Updates

The Log4j vulnerability has triggered global headlines. MSPs, MSSPs and security pros are racing to mitigate the vulnerability before more hackers exploit the widespread security issue. Here’s how the Log4j vulnerability was discovered, reported, exploited and mitigated, according to ongoing reports from CyberRisk Alliance brands (ChannelE2E, MSSP Alert and SC Media) and third-party reports. By Joe Panettieri I Dec 15, 2021 Read More

MSSPs Among Hardest Hit by Cyberattacks Targeting Backup Vulnerabilities

Managed security service providers (MSSPs) are among the hardest hit in the information and technology (IT) and communications sector by hackers going after backup systems as door openers to malware campaigns, according to Darktrace, a Cambridge, UK-based cybersecurity artificial intelligence (AI) provider. By D. Howard Kass I Dec 15, 2021 Read More

U.S., Six Other Nations Vow to Crack Down on “Digital Authoritarianism”

The U.S. along with Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, have pledged to impede the use of technology by authoritarian governments to spy on their citizens and commit other human rights abuses. By D. Howard Kass I Dec 15, 2021 Read More