Secure Connections

As we move into 2021 and really assess the gravity of the monumental paradigm shift happening all around us, Joe Alapat, Founder and CEO at Liongard talks with Brian about seizing the opportunities. Making deliberate business offering decisions and being fully prepared to deploy and implement. From good will engagements to creating transparency for services delivering an effective cybersecurity stack, or as Joe refers to it ‘Reducing the blast radius’.

When looking to catapult and scale your business, transparency and control is critical.

With the massive shift to a distributed workforce and businesses operating without perimeters, there has never been a better time to look at partnering your cybersecurity offering. Cybersecurity is a specialty knowledge that requires a different skill set and expertise. Partnering allows you to continue to grow your business, focusing on your core skills and offerings which are needed more than ever by not only the SMB but also enterprise sized organizations.    

Solutions Granted CEO, Michael Crean gives Brian some great insights and things you should be looking at when looking for a cybersecurity partner. As they say – You need to be right every time, however the bad guys only need to be right once. Do you have the resources and expertise in house to effectively secure your clients…every time?

Solutions Granted are an MSSP that take a holistic approach in partnering with MSP’s to not only secure their clients, however also support with client conversations, whether its adding to their security stack or ensuring compliance is being met. You can find more information about Solutions Granted and contact info in our Security Solutions Showcase.  

We are in the wild west of the digital age with security tools at the ready, yet so many out there still are not locking their front doors. Mailprotector Channel Chief, Matt Scully and Director […]

We are in the wild west of the digital age with security tools at the ready, yet so many out there still are not locking their front doors. Mailprotector Channel Chief, Matt Scully and Director of Partner Success, Mark Glowacz sit down with Brian to discuss Email vulnerability and why MSPs need to add encryption into their security stacks.

You can catch Matt next week at our next Beyond the Curve Cyber Event where he will be talking about the importance and ease of adding email and data encryption into your security offerings.

Our very own Robin Miller sits down with Allison Cohen, Director, Live & Virtual Events with The Channel Company, Michelle Ragusa-McBain, VP, Global Channel Strategy with JS Group and Kathleen Martin, Senior Manager Member Communities with CompTIA. With decades of experience and insights in the Tech Industry, they open up about how they got their start and provide resources available to assist women, whether just starting their career or those looking to pivot into the IT Industry.

Great chat for all of us to listen in on…Yes, the men out there too! We don’t always see their perspective and challenges, however the awareness value this can bring to an organization and team is immeasurable.

As discussed in this session, more information on The Channel Company next ‘Women of the Channel’ event can be found here: https://event.thechannelco.com/wotc-west

Following is a link to the CompTIA ‘Advancing Women in Technology’ community

https://www.comptia.org/membership/communities-and-councils/advancing-women-in-technology-community

Facebook group for Women in Technology ‘Tech Worlds Half’

Ryan Morris, Principal IT Consultant with Morris Management Partners has a thought provoking conversation with Brian which always creates clarity in order to plot our path forward. As 2021 gets underway and we can see our emergence from the pandemic coming, how will business architectures and models emerge. Ryan feels we are on the brink of the next massive technology paradigm shift and history has shown that when these happen, they create massive revenue generating opportunities. ‘The Everywhere Organization is a robust multi leg business model. A model that is compelling for your customers and you’ states Ryan.

Ryan and his team have created a tool for MSPs to use in these conversations by way of an assessment or scorecard. Not a network or security assessment but a wholistic business assessment which looks at the human side of remote workforces. This provides clarity so that you are able to effectively prescribe the proper hardware and software for your customers to thrive in this new era.

For a copy of the white paper Ryan discusses from CB Insights, you can get the full report by clicking here or following https://www.cbinsights.com/research/report/reopening-office-tech-work-post-covid/

You can join Ryan in his live session at our next Beyond the Curve virtual event coming up on January 20 and 21 from 2:00 – 4:30 PM EST. For event information and registration click here.

To contact Ryan directly and get more information on taking a wholistic approach with your customers click here

As 2020 comes to a close (Queue cheering in the background) we can look back at the silver linings and change that Covid has pushed. The SMB has been reluctant for years to move their infrastructure to the cloud and wanted tested and true on prem servers….appliances they could see and feel. With so many now open to the cloud through necessity, the conversation needs to shift back to securing the data. Is O365 backing up? Is it secure? What is the process for spooling it back up in the event of a disaster now that its in the cloud? Are we still compliant?

Brian talks with Vault America CEO, Zak Karsan about not only securing your customers cloud data but also properly partitioning and protecting it while allowing it to be easily accessible. Zak states ‘Security, Security, Security’…We couldn’t have said it better ourselves!

Vault America is offering free O365 Back Up Licenses for MSPs through the pandemic, to give you an opportunity to test drive their solution. This also comes with a free consult on securing customer data and ensuring that your remote customers are protected.

As discussed in the beginning of this episode, Zak sits on the board of the Scleroderma Foundation of New England…a horrible disease that is near and dear to Zak and his family. His goal is to raise awareness and support for this debilitating disease. For more information please check out their website here .

Brian catches up with Raffi Jamgotchian, President and CTO with Triada Networks to talk cybersecurity and a new book he recently co-authored with 30 other IT Service Providers called ‘On Thin Ice’. They speak to security frameworks, compliance and how you can use these to harden your stack and fill the gaps. Frameworks can be overwhelming when first getting started, however the result is always 100% clarity. Among others, Triada are using the CompTIA Security Trustmark which was built around the NIST Framework.

For a copy of On Thin Ice from Amazon Click Here (A great gift idea for all of your clients!)

For more information on CompTIA Security Trustmark Click Here

 

Brian catches up with Raffi Jamgotchian, President and CTO with Triada Networks to talk cybersecurity and a new book he recently co-authored with 30 other IT Service Providers called ‘On Thin Ice’. They speak to security frameworks, compliance and how you can use these to harden your stack and fill the gaps. Frameworks can be overwhelming when first getting started, however the result is always 100% clarity. Among others, Triada are using the CompTIA Security Trustmark which was built around the NIST Framework.

For a copy of On Thin Ice from Amazon Click Here (A great gift idea for all of your clients!)

For more information on CompTIA Security Trustmark Click Here

Amy Luby, Channel Chief Evangelist with Acronis tells us, ‘Let’s make 2021 the year of cyber fitness’. Brian catches up with Amy to discuss what the Acronis Research Team has found in their year end report which shows the evolution of Ransomware to Data Exfiltration. As IT Service Providers we need to continue to move […]