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Revenge and inflation are key drivers behind an 800 percent increase in cyberattacks seen by a managed services provider since the days before the onset of Russia's invasion of Ukraine last month, according to the company's top executive. The attacks are coming not only from groups inside of Russia but also from within the region as well from Russia allies like North Korea and Iran, historically sources of global cyber-threats, Emil Sayegh, president and CEO of Ntirety, an MSP that focuses on security, told The Register.
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Ransomware is a pervasive threat to a managed service provider's clients. It's highly prevalent, impacting 68.5 percent of organizations worldwide.
The ever-evolving compliance landscape has been a significant challenge for SMBs, with 74% of MSPs stating their customers struggle to meet regulatory compliance requirements. 59% of MSPs had clients that were required to comply with HIPAA guidelines, followed by PCI DSS and GDPR. Cybersecurity remains top of mind.
Why is a web filtering important and what are the main features necessary for MSPs? Managed service providers have been struggling with finding the right web filtering solutions. Web filtering is necessary for businesses because it prevents the staff from accessing malicious and harmful content while using the corporate network or while working from home, besides offering other advantages like monitoring their performance and keeping it to the maximum to ensure productivity.
NIS is the main law controlling security practices in the UK today. Currently a straight copy of the EU NIS Directive, one of the benefits of Brexit leapt upon by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport is the new ability to amend NIS's reporting thresholds.
A government crackdown on British MSPs' security practices is drawing ever closer after the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport floated plans to make Cyber Assessment Framework compliance mandatory. Digital Minister Julia Lopez said in a canned statement: "We are taking the next steps in our mission to help firms strengthen their cyber security and encouraging firms across the UK to follow the advice and guidance from the National Cyber Security Centre to secure their businesses' digital footprint and protect their sensitive data."
Russia's Nobelium group - fingered as being a Russian state actor by both the United States and Britain - has massively ramped up phishing and password spraying attempts against managed service providers and cloud resellers, Microsoft's security arm has warned. The Windows maker said the group's targeted attacks against "Resellers and other technology service providers that customize, deploy and manage cloud services and other technologies on behalf of their customers" had trebled over the past three months.
The survey found that even satisfactory MSPs are falling short in certain key areas: cloud strategy, security, and IT spending. MSPs and their clients falling behind as remote workforce evolves.