Top 10 Tips for Minimizing Human Vulnerability

Managed s ervice p roviders play a unique role in many businesses , acting as trusted advisors and resident experts . If their efforts are successful, MSPs can find themselves serving multiple clients.

Cybersecurity Breaches and Legal Ramifications for MSPs

Managed Service Providers (MSPs)play a special role in many organizations. They may be a trusted advisor, provide specific services for which an organization lacks expertise, and provide a workforce embedded within the organization as part of the team.

Cybersecurity for MSPs: The Human Factor

Humans are both the weakest and strongest link of any cybersecurity program. That duality of contribution is due to independent thought. While technical and administrative safeguards are relatively binary—they exist and function or don’t—people are fallible. Even the most well-intentioned of people can do the wrong thing for the right reasons or may not even understand that they are doing the bad thing. Jump To: Strengths and Weaknesses Cultivate the Human Element Training Exercise Reinforcement

Human Vulnerability in Cybersecurity: Challenges & Opportunities

The human element of cybersecurity is simultaneously the most effective tool in your risk management toolbelt and the most complex to manage. Your staff can be your most robust early warning system, or they can be the entry point for a major cyberattack. How you manage your staff and their approach to cybersecurity dictates your organization’s resilience. Jump To: Human Vulnerability Challenges Human Vulnerability Opportunities Recommendations

Understanding Human Vulnerability: How MSPs Can Help

Understanding Human Vulnerability Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are uniquely positioned in the information security and information technology realms. MSPs sit outside their client organizations, yet they provide critical services to organizations and are typically relied upon to work side-by-side with organizational staff on those services. In a natural way, MSPs become an extension of the client organization and are seen as such. Jump To: Do MSPs Have Influence? MSP Benefits from Educating Clients How MSPs Can Educate

A Buyers Guide for Security Awareness Training

Shopping for the right security awareness toolset can be like shopping for a new car. So many features, designs, and considerations can be overwhelming. When you find the right one, you know. Jump To: Security Awareness Training Achievements The Impacts of Cyberthreats Ideal Training Features

Creating a Culture of Security Awareness in the MSP Environment

Managed Service Providers (MSPs) perform countless mission-critical services for downstream clients. As such, MSPs are prime targets for attack. Numerous attacks over the past couple of years on Microsoft, Git, Solarwinds, and others highlighted the criticality of the impact that an attack on an MSP can have on downstream clients.

What is Phishing? Exploring Common Phishing Techniques

Social Engineering Risks for MSPs: An Educative Guide

Social Engineering is one of the most prolific entry points for modern cyberattacks. That makes sense: instead of trying to take advantage of a specific set of conditions that permit escalated permissions to resources, a threat actor need only take advantage of human behavioral quirks, many of which exist.

Security Awareness Training: Answering Your Clients' Top 5 Questions

You’re a business. That means you provide much-needed goods and services to your clients. In return, you may have some of your clients’ data. The last thing your clients want to hear is that you’ve breached their data.