Cybersecurity Agents Unite!
It’s holiday blockbuster season! The time of year when the big screens are full of movie releases that are expected to pull in the crowds that want to watch Marvel and DC Comic heroes unite to save the world. They come from all realms to fight the dark forces that threaten humanity. Together they will save the planet and it usually happens while the human race is blissfully unaware of the dangers that lurk in unknown territories, as they work silently and slowly to initiate our demise and take over the planet.
Reasons to Perform a Security Risk Assessment
Performing a Security Risk Assessment (SRA) is one of the things that Managed Service Providers can utilize as a way to solidify their client relationships and grow their business. Offering it to existing clients is a way of showing your value as well as helping them to strengthen their security posture. You can engage with potential clients by offering to do an assessment for them.
Additionally, businesses that are in healthcare and fall under HIPAA compliance are required to perform an assessment annually, so it can be used as a tool to strengthen and build those relationships. However, doing so with all of your clients should be a part of your plan regardless of the industry that they work within.
5 Key Lessons from Cybersecurity Awareness Month
Who’s Ready to Go?
As Cyber Security Awareness Month comes to an end this week, don’t let the momentum you’ve created dwindle or diminish. Take the foundation of awareness that you’ve been establishing with your existing and new clients and keep on building!
Are you feeling unsure about how to keep it going, or uncertain about what you can do to grow awareness? We’ve got five topics for you to keep the ball rolling…and rolling.
Collective Action Against Cybercrime
Last week the President met with leaders in the private sector as well as those in education to discuss the need to address cybersecurity threats to the nation and efforts needed across the board. The increase in incidents and the ongoing threat of attack is something that transcends all the invisible borders that we put on humans or businesses. In other words, cybercriminals don’t care about your race, religion, income, or the industry that you work within. Data is valuable to them however it needs to be obtained and whatever information it can provide – it all adds up.
Hoop Hack Attack
There’s a March Madness of a different kind that happens each year during this time of tournaments: the onslaught of phishing emails that users fall for over and over again.
With pools that take place in our offices, among friends, or to the individual who wants to join a group online, hackers are handed a very easy way to get us to click as we look to participate and enter our bracket choices.
Degree of Awareness
This week a friend shared a story about her college-aged daughter Jane and her recent experience in finding a job. She is in graphic design and has a portfolio, so when she came across a well-known company that creates sports-branded gear that was hiring, it was something she wanted to pursue.
A Quick Refresher
As we move ahead, taking advantage of the energy of the new year and work to get our annual plans moving, sometimes rushing to get a lot more done than usual since we now know the unexpected is all that can be expected, let’s have a quick refresher.
Don’t Forget Me
It is easy to get left behind if you become less interesting. No, we aren’t talking about your friends or your childhood toys, although that does happen. We’re talking about YOU. Yes, don’t leave yourself behind. What? How? Explain!
Remember your MySpace account? Or when your significant other wanted you to create a TikTok account so that you could make fun videos – which happened once, and you realized you would never do THAT again.
10 Ways to Safeguard Your Organization Against Ransomware
Remember ransomware, the malicious software that blocks computer access until a ransom demand is paid? The threat was huge and dominated headlines in the past but seems to have slowed down in recent months. Could the decline in publications citing ransomware as the cause of a data breach or loss of data indicate that cybercriminals have given up on dishing out the malware that locks your system or files until a ransom is paid? The answer is no, not even close.
Stumbling Across the Ultimate Security Prospecting Toolkit
I have run an MSP for 18 years and counting. I have learned a lot over the past 18 years, and I continue to learn new things every day.
When I first started out I was good at technology but crappy at sales and marketing. Back in 2000, there were no organizations like Robin Robins providing guidance and strategy on how to market and grow your business. In fact, I never joined any IT / MSP communities. Everything I did was based on reading and learning on my own.