MSP the Expert
Small businesses often make the mistake that they have to be cybersecurity experts to have strong security programs in place. Remind them that as their MSP, you can be their expert. The concern is often that learning how to protect their business will be overwhelming. One more thing to do. Or that they need to hire someone internally. So they put it off until they fill that role, or find the right product to enable their team.
MSP: Leading by Example
As an MSP, your business is designed to serve your clients. That means fixing what breaks and preparing them for what might break. You encourage behaviors that eliminate the breaking altogether. As a Breach Secure Now partner, you’re likely approaching this from multiple angles. Ongoing training, social media reminders, and products that integrate with their business to assess a candidate’s cybersecurity know-how before they become a team member. You are there to show them how to reduce the risk of a cybersecurity breach.
Adjusting Your Business Model
New Frontier
The recent conversation with Chris Wiser and Art Gross covered several issues that will continue to be “hot topics” regardless of where we stand regarding COVID-19.
Procedure & Policy
Whether you are going to continue to work remotely or have your team return to an office, the first thing that you’ll want to do is make sure that you do everything that you can to protect your employees and your clients.
Government Funds for Cybersecurity
State and local governments need funding and resources. For which thing are we talking about here? Respirators? Masks? No, but we are talking about another type of protection, for another unseen threat – cybercrime. With malicious activity already on a steady rise, the current crisis has brought some government offices to an even more heightened state of risk, with hackers poised and ready to attack their over-stressed offices.
Navigating Uncertain Times – Tips from Experienced CEOs
Small Business, Big Problems
There is a multitude of problems that small businesses are facing today. Clients are working from home. This is happening as a matter of force, but also will likely evolve into a matter of choice. And all of this is happening by them essentially picking up their desks and going home to do the same job that they do in the office that you would normally support them in. They may be using new software and likely not updating the existing programs. You have limited entry into these “satellite offices” so you are possibly being overlooked, or worse, ignored.
Securing Your Workforce
The arrival of COVID-19 restructured the world in countless ways. We have had to rethink how we socialize, live day-to-day, and in order to keep a lot of other parts of our lives running, we are having to rethink the way in which we run businesses.
When we start to address how a business will run effectively in a situation like we find ourselves in, the first thought is understandably, how do we set our offices and employees up to work remotely? Your clients will turn to you for guidance with this, and likely already have.
Staying Calm in Times of Crisis
We’ve all been through challenging times personally and professionally, and in our heads and hearts, we know that “this too shall pass”. But with the COVID-19 virus being declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, the time in which things pass may be longer than we’d like.
A New Approach to Healthcare Cybersecurity
A New Approach to an Old Problem
Resistance to yet another government regulation, a lack of understanding the complexities of the rules, and an overall unwillingness to take on yet another area of expertise in an ever-changing technical landscape can make the sale of HIPAA compliance a tough one.
The Blame Game
When a breach occurs, after the confusion and panic have passed (or merely settled in), the finger pointing starts. Generally, clients assume that since the anti-virus icon in the corner was there, they were protected. Firewall? Not sure what it is, but I get an alert every now and then about it, so it must be doing something. Passwords? I use them. Sure, they aren’t the most complicated, but c’ mon, why would a hacker want my bank account?
Cybersecurity: An Opportunity to Be the Hero
Missed Opportunities
Missed opportunities. They come in many forms, shapes, and sizes. It might be personal, professional, or just for the fun of a moment.
We all have them, and it likely still pains us to think about being wrong on any opportunity in life, especially those that would provide you with a way to advance your business or career.