Business of Tech: Daily MSP News & IT Services Analysis

From a Patreon supporter: “Do customers care about brands anymore besides maybe Apple or MS? My position is the MSP should provide a good outcome and should change their product mix as old threats evolve and new threat emerge So do clients care HPE/Cisco or Sentinel1/CarbonBlack. We should stay agile and not locked into products because a brand "helped close the deal". Find out the answer in this episode.

About Business of Tech: The daily MSP news and analysis podcast for managed service providers and IT services leaders. Host Dave Sobel covers AI for MSPs, MSP pricing and profitability, MSP M&A and private equity, vendor partner programs, MSP cybersecurity and liability, and MSP operations — and answers the question every story raises: Why do we care? Produced by MSP Radio.

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From a Patreon supporter: “Do customers care about brands anymore besides maybe Apple or MS? My position is the MSP should provide a good outcome and should change their product mix as old threats evolve and new threat emerge So do clients care HPE/Cisco or Sentinel1/CarbonBlack. We should stay agile and not locked into products because a brand "helped close the deal". Find out the answer in this episode.

Today

• Lessons from Big Tech Earnings

https://www.channelpartnerinsight.com/news/4018490/aws-google-report-cloud-growth

https://www.profgalloway.com/fire-fawning

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6694711754414530561/

• The EU goes big against Cyber attacks

https://apnews.com/978f1494313a545e6e7e568e5f9782bf

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/canadian-msp-discloses-data-breach-failed-ransomware-attack/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-stole-twitter-employee-credentials-via-phone-phishing/

AND

• Finally, a JEDI update

https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/pentagon-cio-jedi-cloud-re-announcement-should-come-by-end-of-august

About Business of Tech: The daily MSP news and analysis podcast for managed service providers and IT services leaders. Host Dave Sobel covers AI for MSPs, MSP pricing and profitability, MSP M&A and private equity, vendor partner programs, MSP cybersecurity and liability, and MSP operations — and answers the question every story raises: Why do we care? Produced by MSP Radio.

MSP Radio is supported by our partners:

ABC Solutions · CometBackup · Firetail · Guardz · HaloPSA · LogMeIn · Mailprotector · Pax8 · Rythmz · ScalePad · TimeZest · Transit AI

Supporting the IT services community through insights, analysis, and transparency.

Get exclusive access to investigative reports, vendor analysis, leadership briefings, and more.

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Today

• Lessons from Big Tech Earnings

https://www.channelpartnerinsight.com/news/4018490/aws-google-report-cloud-growth

https://www.profgalloway.com/fire-fawning

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6694711754414530561/

• The EU goes big against Cyber attacks

https://apnews.com/978f1494313a545e6e7e568e5f9782bf

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/canadian-msp-discloses-data-breach-failed-ransomware-attack/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-stole-twitter-employee-credentials-via-phone-phishing/

AND

• Finally, a JEDI update

https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/pentagon-cio-jedi-cloud-re-announcement-should-come-by-end-of-august

Support the vendors who support the show:

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Today

• The big four on Capital Hill

https://www.protocol.com/tech-hearings-how-the-lawmakers-are-doing-so-far

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/29/big-tech-ceo-hearing-takeaways-387677

https://www.protocol.com/big-tech-ceo-hearing-what-comes-next

• Blocking and tackling events and security

https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/28/21344977/ces-2021-online-cta-las-vegas-conference-coronavirus-pandemic-covid-19

https://www.channele2e.com/events-2/amazon-aws-reinvent-2020-virtual-only/

https://www.msspalert.com/cybersecurity-research/top-apt-groups-2q2020

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-now-detects-ccleaner-as-a-potentially-unwanted-application/

https://www.propertycasualty360.com/2020/07/30/new-tools-for-managing-cybersecurity/?slreturn=20200630130429

AND

• The Cost of a Data Breach

https://www.ciodive.com/news/IBM-ponemon-data-breach-cost-security/582375/

About Business of Tech: The daily MSP news and analysis podcast for managed service providers and IT services leaders. Host Dave Sobel covers AI for MSPs, MSP pricing and profitability, MSP M&A and private equity, vendor partner programs, MSP cybersecurity and liability, and MSP operations — and answers the question every story raises: Why do we care? Produced by MSP Radio.

MSP Radio is supported by our partners:

ABC Solutions · CometBackup · Firetail · Guardz · HaloPSA · LogMeIn · Mailprotector · Pax8 · Rythmz · ScalePad · TimeZest · Transit AI

Supporting the IT services community through insights, analysis, and transparency.

Get exclusive access to investigative reports, vendor analysis, leadership briefings, and more.

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Today

•   The big four on Capital Hill

https://www.protocol.com/tech-hearings-how-the-lawmakers-are-doing-so-far

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/29/big-tech-ceo-hearing-takeaways-387677

https://www.protocol.com/big-tech-ceo-hearing-what-comes-next

• Blocking and tackling events and security

https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/28/21344977/ces-2021-online-cta-las-vegas-conference-coronavirus-pandemic-covid-19

https://www.channele2e.com/events-2/amazon-aws-reinvent-2020-virtual-only/

https://www.msspalert.com/cybersecurity-research/top-apt-groups-2q2020

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-now-detects-ccleaner-as-a-potentially-unwanted-application/

https://www.propertycasualty360.com/2020/07/30/new-tools-for-managing-cybersecurity/?slreturn=20200630130429

AND

• The Cost of a Data Breach

https://www.ciodive.com/news/IBM-ponemon-data-breach-cost-security/582375/

Today

• New market data on SMB IT spending

https://www.channelfutures.com/channel-research/smbs-saas-cloud-collaboration-spending-to-fall-in-2020

https://www.ninjarmm.com/blog/covid-statistics-msp-impact-july-2020/

AND

• More information on that Solarwinds and Microsoft Intune integration

About Business of Tech: The daily MSP news and analysis podcast for managed service providers and IT services leaders. Host Dave Sobel covers AI for MSPs, MSP pricing and profitability, MSP M&A and private equity, vendor partner programs, MSP cybersecurity and liability, and MSP operations — and answers the question every story raises: Why do we care? Produced by MSP Radio.

MSP Radio is supported by our partners:

ABC Solutions · CometBackup · Firetail · Guardz · HaloPSA · LogMeIn · Mailprotector · Pax8 · Rythmz · ScalePad · TimeZest · Transit AI

Supporting the IT services community through insights, analysis, and transparency.

Get exclusive access to investigative reports, vendor analysis, leadership briefings, and more.

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Today

•  New market data on SMB IT spending

https://www.channelfutures.com/channel-research/smbs-saas-cloud-collaboration-spending-to-fall-in-2020

https://www.ninjarmm.com/blog/covid-statistics-msp-impact-july-2020/

AND

• More information on that Solarwinds and Microsoft Intune integration

Today

• Google’s ad portal had a disturbing bias

https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/07/23/google-advertising-keywords-black-girls

• Security blocking and tackling

https://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-warns-of-new-ddos-attack-vectors-coap-ws-dd-arms-and-jenkins/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/uk-and-us-warn-qnap-owners-to-upgrade-firmware-to-block-malware/

https://blog.thousandeyes.com/config-change-cloudflare-outage-internet/

https://www.businessinsider.com/software-source-code-leaked-microsoft-nintendo-2020-7

AND

• Techaisle weighs in on Lenovo

https://techaisle.com/blog/416-lenovo-smb-managed-services-designed-to-optimize-time-and-improve-it-efficiency

About Business of Tech: The daily MSP news and analysis podcast for managed service providers and IT services leaders. Host Dave Sobel covers AI for MSPs, MSP pricing and profitability, MSP M&A and private equity, vendor partner programs, MSP cybersecurity and liability, and MSP operations — and answers the question every story raises: Why do we care? Produced by MSP Radio.

MSP Radio is supported by our partners:

ABC Solutions · CometBackup · Firetail · Guardz · HaloPSA · LogMeIn · Mailprotector · Pax8 · Rythmz · ScalePad · TimeZest · Transit AI

Supporting the IT services community through insights, analysis, and transparency.

Get exclusive access to investigative reports, vendor analysis, leadership briefings, and more.

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Today

• Google’s ad portal had a disturbing bias

https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/07/23/google-advertising-keywords-black-girls

• Security blocking and tackling

https://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-warns-of-new-ddos-attack-vectors-coap-ws-dd-arms-and-jenkins/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/uk-and-us-warn-qnap-owners-to-upgrade-firmware-to-block-malware/

https://blog.thousandeyes.com/config-change-cloudflare-outage-internet/

https://www.businessinsider.com/software-source-code-leaked-microsoft-nintendo-2020-7

AND

• Techaisle weighs in on Lenovo

https://techaisle.com/blog/416-lenovo-smb-managed-services-designed-to-optimize-time-and-improve-it-efficiency

Support the vendors who support the show:

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