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Remote work and increased cybersecurity threats presented both challenges and opportunities for MSPs
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.
Its leading threat detection technology was built to stop zero-day threats including those that do not match any known malware signatures, proactively defending against malware and phishing threats within a user's inbox, chat, or cloud drive. MSPs report phishing as the most common cause of successful ransomware breaches, according to Datto's annual Global State of the Channel Ransomware Report, a survey of global MSPs. "Cyber resilience has been at Datto's core since the launch of our flagship Continuity service and the Datto Cloud over a decade ago," said Tim Weller, CEO of Datto.
US managed service provider CompuCom has suffered a DarkSide ransomware attack leading to service outages and customers disconnecting from the MSP's network to prevent the spread of malware. Over the weekend, CompuCom suffered an outage that prevented customers from accessing the company's customer portal to open troubleshooting tickets.
US managed service provider CompuCom has suffered a DarkSide ransomware attack leading to service outages and customers disconnecting from the MSP's network to prevent the spread of malware. Over the weekend, CompuCom suffered an outage that prevented customers from accessing the company's customer portal to open troubleshooting tickets.
This integration streamlines secure business operations for MSPs, allowing them to access their Autotask PSA account from within the ThreatLocker portal. ThreatLocker addresses these concerns, protecting against ransomware, viruses, and other malicious software, integrating seamlessly with Autotask PSA, which combines all the mission-critical tools MSPs need to operate a successful business.
With this acquisition, Zadara obtains NeoKarm technology including the former Stratoscale software IP, which enables MSPs to offer an on-demand private cloud built and fully-managed by Zadara. "We believe MSPs of any size should be able to offer their own competitive on-demand private cloud without the large upfront CapEx investment traditionally required," said Nelson Nahum, CEO, Zadara.