Episodes

Almost every time I do a security maturity assessment I find that companies are the least mature in Governance. The areas that seem to need the most attention are Policy and Compliance which is to be expected since that is t...

As we prepare for 2022 and the opportunities and challenges it is sure to bring I thought we should take a minute to focus on people. Consumers vs employees, two sides of the same coin, but very different parameters placed o...

I think everyone at this point has heard someone talk about Log4j. Even my 8th grader has heard about it as it was featured on CNN10. This week we are doing a special episode featuring Ryan Weeks, in-house CISO for Datto. ...

Do you ever wonder if you have too many layers in your security stack? Is it possible you have an overlap between one or more of your existing products? While Charles Love and I might have created more questions than answers ...

In our quest to provide the best services to our staff and our clients, it is easy to get caught up trying to solve very large problems. I think we are programmed that way as we like the feeling when we overcome those big ch...

The month of November has focused on incremental changes that MSPs can make to improve their security posture. I sit down with Jay Tipton to discuss why joining a peer group is one of those incremental changes. If you know Ja...

What if you could only pick three security products/services to include in your offering? I sit down with Charles Love of Showtech Solutions to discuss the three picks. Surprise alert... We don't pick the same three.

We are all dealing with objections when it comes to convincing our clients to take cybersecurity seriously. I sit down with Eric Hanson of Inland Productivity Solutions to discuss the opportunities and challenges of position...

Now that we are in week two of the cybersecurity program we thought it would be helpful for MSPs to have something that they can map their program too. I sit down with Jim Harryman of Kinetic Technology Group to discuss their...

Paralysis Analysis are commonplace among MSPs, Businesses large and small when it comes to taking on Cybersecurity. As we come off Cybersecurity awareness month we are tackling cybersecurity and incremental approach to imple...

After we talked about the pre/post-boom I thought we should cover the security services side of being an MSP. Join me with Joshua Smith of Varonis as we talk about understanding what it is that we are trying to protect. Do ...

What have you done to prepare for ransomware or other incidents that can cause repercussions that impact your business? Do you have a plan in place for post-boom or after an event has happened? This week I am joined again by ...

Businesses come in all shapes and sizes, and when it comes to cybersecurity, there is no one size fits all. I sit down with William Mulcahey of M6 Managed IT to discuss what it means as a smaller MSP. Some good questions, a...

Sitting down with Jeremiah Grossman of Bit Discovery and Jeffrey Smith of Cyber Risk Underwriters to talk about the need to have cyber insurance. What it covers and how relatively inexpensive it is compared to not having cov...

A few weeks back I attended Blue Team Con in Chicago. Based on one fo the sessions that discussed the culture challenges and shortages of qualified candidates I asked the founders of Blue Team Con to join me to discuss the ch...

We recently talked about BCDR and making sure there is a plan in place that is communicated. It felt like we left a few things out so this week I sat down with Charles Love again to hash out some of the procedures. Join us ...

I don't think there are any MSPs who aren't dealing with backups of data for their clients, whether it is for onsite data or cloud services it has become par for the course. In this episode I sit down with Charles Love of Sh...

Security and Compliance go hand in hand, but we live in a world where cybersecurity obligations are still driven by what our clients might require of us. You don't have to become an MSSP to prioritize cybersecurity in our own...

Power outages, slow internet, ransomware, and many other scenarios cause a finger to get pointed at someone. I know I have had a few fingers pointed at me and I know that I have also done my own share of finger pointing. In...

With T-Mobile, AT&T, and now even Microsoft reporting breaches questions start to come up as to what can be done. Why is this happening? Don't these companies focus on securing our information? I have also noticed that many...

We have all had an opportunity to work with a Microsoft product or two in our careers. This week I sit down with Charles Love to recap some recent O365 challenges we both faced and better prepared for future migrations, upgr...

It seems we have covered different cybersecurity frameworks and the challenges MSPs face to become compliant, but until now we haven't talked specifically about HIPAA compliance. As an MSP you might find that you are a Busin...

It seems that more often than not we talk about Cyber Insurance. The last two episodes we talked specifically about risk and going back to December 2020, Episode 8 , we talked about cyber insurance and ransomware with Frank ...

Last we we discussed client risk and even a bit about our own risks. Throughout our discussion I kept thinking we need a way to score our prospective or existing clients to help determine those that bring us more risk. Ther...