Security News

N-able announced it has integrated N-able N-central with Microsoft Intune, a component of Microsoft 365 Business Premium, helping MSPs manage and protect their clients' apps and devices. Intune enables MSPs to securely manage workstations and mobile devices to help configure application and app protection policies.

N-able announced a collaboration with DNSFilter to integrate its cloud-based security solution with N-able N-central and RMM, providing MSPs with threat protection and content filtering. The new embedded capabilities will help give N-able partners robust protection against these types of threats, including phishing, ransomware, and zero day social engineering attacks.

Zyxel Networks announced the addition of the USG FLEX firewall series to its signature Nebula Cloud Networking solution. Equipped with the newly-released firmware version ZLD5.0, the USG FLEX firewalls add the robust, intelligent network security capability that establishes Nebula as the most comprehensive cloud networking solution for SMBs and MSPs. The distribution of the workforce, initially driven by COVID-19 restrictions, presents businesses with the challenge of providing critical connectivity to network resources and assets to remote employees outside of the main office.

The new licensing makes it more profitable for service providers to design and offer a comprehensive cyber protection services portfolio with little to no upfront costs. With this announcement, the company's current Acronis Cyber Backup Cloud will be extended with cyber protection capabilities - including the company's backup, anti-malware, and protection management - and renamed Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud.

CloudBlue has completed the acquisition and integration of Harmony Business Systems. Its comprehensive professional services automation and revenue management software is now a complement to CloudBlue's portfolio of services designed to simplify and accelerate resellers' transition to an everything-as-a-service business.

Sixty-five percent of MSPs increased their revenue from delivering cybersecurity services even during the recession brought on by the pandemic, according to Kaseya. Cybersecurity is becoming more and more critical to SMBs-77% of MSPs reported that their clients were hit with a cyberattack, according to Kaseya's newly-released 2021 MSP Benchmark Survey.

American managed service provider CompuCom is expecting losses of over $20 million following this month's DarkSide ransomware attack that took down most of its systems. The Company expects to incur expenses of up to $20 million, of which the Company assumes approximately $10 million will be accrued through the first quarter of 2021.".

Acronis announced the integration of its cyber protection solution, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, with the Kaseya VSA platform. "As a channel-centric partner, we created Acronis Cyber Protect to empower service providers with comprehensive cyber protection that easily integrates with the tools they already use so they can protect more clients and more workloads per employee," said Pat Hurley, Acronis Vice President and General Manager, Americas.

Action1 announced the release of its new RMM system. Building upon the success of its proven endpoint management platform, Action1 allows MSPs and IT departments to take full control over patch management, software deployment, IT asset inventory, reporting, and remote access.

If one searches for 'the top MSP challenges' between 2017 and 2020, there are mainly five things that are more likely to emerge from the search results: adopting cloud-based solutions, sales margins, satisfying complex client's needs, employee turnover, and the scalability of the IT security solutions offered. At SafeDNS, we see apart from those points three entangled hurdles for MSPs in 2021 and the coming years- tied with the current economic uncertainty and somewhat linked to the pandemic -1) More attacks at the MPSs' clients' DNS-level, 2) growth issues for MSPs and their clients, and 3) remote working vulnerabilities.