Secure Connections

Brian has a round table with IoTSSA MSP Advisory Board members Brian Weiss, CEO of ITech Solutions, Guy Baroan, President of Baroan Technologies and Ed Bensinger founder of Bensinger Consulting. They have a very candid and informative talk around what challenges and opportunities they are seeing with todays challenges. Balancing potential loss against new opportunities […]

Brian has a round table with IoTSSA MSP Advisory Board members Brian Weiss, CEO of ITech Solutions, Guy Baroan, President of Baroan Technologies and Ed Bensinger founder of Bensinger Consulting. They have a very candid and informative talk around what challenges and opportunities they are seeing with todays challenges.

Balancing potential loss against new opportunities and what they are doing to truly align with their clients as a partner and essential business service. Through this alignment they are seeing opportunities arise such as increased demand for Co-Managed Services leveraging their expertise and ability to remote monitor vastly expanded networks.

 

 

IoTSSA Advisory Board member, Eric Rieger from WebIT Services in Illinois joins Brian in a discussion with Rayanne Buchianico, President of ABC Solutions Accounting Firm and Geoff Lane, SR. Director of Public Advocacy at CompTIA to discuss the navigating the CARES Act. The largest financial relief package since the great depression, there is of course […]

IoTSSA Advisory Board member, Eric Rieger from WebIT Services in Illinois joins Brian in a discussion with Rayanne Buchianico, President of ABC Solutions Accounting Firm and Geoff Lane, SR. Director of Public Advocacy at CompTIA to discuss the navigating the CARES Act.

The largest financial relief package since the great depression, there is of course a lot of information and dis-information floating around out there while businesses are trying to translate and interpret what they qualify for and what they don’t. ‘Always go to the source’, states Rayanne Buchianico.

Geoff Lane tells us that more is coming. A CARES act 3.1 is coming down the pipe that is expected to be a larger infrastructure package with another one coming behind it. Details will follow as the situation is changing almost by the hour.

Some useful links discussed:

Check with your local state governors on local support https://www.nga.org/

ABC Solutions Blog https://abcsolutionsfl.com/blog

CompTIA resource forum https://covid19.comptia.org/

 

 

IT Channel Veteran and Technology Attorney Brad Gross founder of Bradley Gross Law, talks with Brian about the legalities of Covid-19. Are we putting our techs at risk when deploying them out in the field? What can we do to protect our staff and ourselves while we navigate through this difficult time? Brad gives us […]

IT Channel Veteran and Technology Attorney Brad Gross founder of Bradley Gross Law, talks with Brian about the legalities of Covid-19.

Are we putting our techs at risk when deploying them out in the field? What can we do to protect our staff and ourselves while we navigate through this difficult time? Brad gives us some great insights on things we can be doing and need to be aware of such as scope of work creep, enforcement of business policies and maintaining confidentiality while we are mobilized. Is your documentation and statements of work in order, not just for today but for when we come out of this beyond the curve?

Listen and watch closely as Brad has also extended a very generous offer to IoTSSA members and our Podcast audience!

 

 

In the face of today’s challenges it’s clear that we truly are better together. As the saying goes ‘It takes a village’, can truly be applied to not just the IT Channel rather any and all social and business dynamics across the globe. How is our mental health holding up through this fight with a […]

In the face of today’s challenges it’s clear that we truly are better together. As the saying goes ‘It takes a village’, can truly be applied to not just the IT Channel rather any and all social and business dynamics across the globe. How is our mental health holding up through this fight with a faceless enemy and how are our partners and colleagues coping?

Brian checks in with Channel veterans Scott Barlow, VP Global MSP at Sophos, Zak Karsan, CEO of Vault America and Dan Wensley, CEO at Warranty Master to see how they are coping and what mechanisms they are turning to and using. They also discuss not only what they personally are doing to help support colleagues and partners but also what their companies are offering and doing to ensure we all come out of this better and stronger. As Dan says ‘We have the opportunity now to work on our business, not in it’.

 

 

Kyle Hanslovan, Co-Founder and CEO at Huntress Labs sits down with Brian and shares some real time threats that are happening amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Ransomware continues to pivot, staying current with phishing attack messaging and social engineering. Remote workers need to be put on high alert for the bad actors who aren’t letting up […]

Kyle Hanslovan, Co-Founder and CEO at Huntress Labs sits down with Brian and shares some real time threats that are happening amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Ransomware continues to pivot, staying current with phishing attack messaging and social engineering. Remote workers need to be put on high alert for the bad actors who aren’t letting up amid this crisis.

Kyle talks about the rapid dissolve of network perimeters we have seen in just a few short weeks. As we quickly deploy remotely and start operating on the other side of the firewall, now we really can describe us as being in the wild west!