Secure Connections

Communicating the threat landscape to the SMB has always been a challenge and customers simply don’t believe, it can and will happen to them. Ryan talks with Curricula, Founder and CEO, Nick Santora about how they are using the power of story telling to penetrate and educate the single largest threat to organizations…the users themselves.

For National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the team at Curricula are hosting a series of webinars every Friday in October, broadcasting live at 2 p.m. EST / 11 a.m. PST. https://www.curricula.com/curriculaville

With the evaporation of perimeters are we effectively securing all the endpoints? Ryan catches up with Addigy, Founder and CEO, Jason Dettbarn about securing all the endpoints, including Apple devices. Implementing a cybersecurity culture with your clients and educating them on steps and implementations we all need to take in technology that continues to expand and grow faster and faster everyday.

Compliance plays a part in cybersecurity, however isn’t in and of itself security, rather a tool to help you manage it. Ryan gets into the weeds with Mav Turner, Head of Product with N-able talking about the complex dynamics of cybersecurity. Framing out risk, breaking down your security stack and most importantly putting your stack into action…Mav talks about the challenges and complexities that IT Service Providers face and offers some great tips on execution.

‘Hell Fire is in the forecast’ states Tyler Moffitt, Senior Threat Research Analyst with Webroot, however it is also avoidable. Ryan chats with Tyler about the importance of a solid security posture and taking the necessary steps to best secure yourself and your customers in todays ever evolving threat landscape. Tyler tells us to start by being aware that you don’t know everything. Stay engaged and educated in order keep yourself at the forefront.

Crypto and cybersecurity? They clear up some misconceptions about Crypto-Currencies and the roll they play in todays cybersecurity.

Marketing and Business Development has always been a challenge with selling IT Services. You have the expertise with a great service offering, however struggle breaking through and effectively growing your business. Pete Busam, Founder & President of Equilibrium Consulting has an excellent chat with Ryan on the business of cybersecurity. Pete delivers some solid advice and ideas to get your marketing plan engaged and effective. ‘Lead generation is not marketing’ states Pete….Leads are the result of a solid marketing plan.

With all the different tools and layers that comprise our security stacks, so many times the fundamentals are overlooked. Ryan catches up with Founder and CTO at Password Boss, Steve Wise, to discuss the importance of password hygiene and the adoption of a vault to effectively manage not just customer passwords but your own internal passwords. Steve gives a staggering stat when an MSP loaded the Password Boss management tool which automatically showed how many passwords had been compromised and were available on the dark web.

With many IT Professionals starting to get alert fatigue from their security tools, Steve Sims, VP Security & CISO with Green Cloud Defense tells us ‘Alerts should be used as an opportunity to advance customer environments’. Ryan has a nuts and bolts conversation with Steve on the steps to building an effective cybersecurity culture. Where the IT Services industry needs to go way beyond just delivering ‘availability’ to their customers.

The Team at Zorus, Sr. Software Engineer, Jake Homberg, VP Sales & Marketing, Chris Keith and Founder & CTO, Greg Gage catch up with Ryan to talk about a layered security approach and how endpoint protection is your first line of defense. A fortified perimeter buttresses our stack, however the importance of a defense in depth approach is critical.