MSP News - January 28, 2022

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.

Can SecOps Teams Overcome High Staff Turnover, Stress, Skills Shortages?

Security operations (SecOps) teams are being asked to do more with less, prompting higher stress levels that negatively impact both their work and personal lives, ThreatConnect said in introducing its recently released Cybersecurity Under Stress report. By D. Howard Kass I Jan 26, 2022 Read More

Vulnerability Management: Should MSSPs Patch Everything or Take This Step Instead

The result: Even the best staffed and resourced IT teams cannot fix all of the vulnerabilities across their infrastructures, said Kenna Security, a risk-based vulnerability management specialist that operates as a unit of Cisco Systems.

Stated another way: Properly prioritizing vulnerabilities to fix is more effective than increasing an organizations’ capacity to patch them, Kenna believes. Better still, possessing both capabilities can lower an entity’s measured exploitability by 29 times, the company’s researchers said in the eighth volume of its wider study Prioritization to Prediction, entitled Measuring and Minimizing Exploitability. By D. Howard Kass I Jan 26, 2022 Read More

Ransomware Payments: How Pennsylvania Legislation May Impact MSSPs, MSPs

Pennsylvania’s state Senate has passed legislation banning the Commonwealth’s agencies from siphoning state and local taxpayers’ money or other public funds to pay ransomware hijackers to unlock barricaded systems. By D. Howard Kass I Jan 26, 2022 Read More