Episodes

If my organization has no technology can I still be secure? Matt Topper of Connectwise and I explore Cybersecurity with an approach that says you can prove a mature cybersecurity posture without technology. Technology is sh...

With Communities, Councils, and Forums just a few weeks away, I thought we should tee up the Unfiltered Fireside chat between Matt Lee of Pax8 and myself. In this precursor, you will hear our two different approaches to achi...

We talk a lot about social engineering and its potential impact on our employees, our businesses, and even our family and friends. What we often fail to talk about is our responsibility to ensure that our employees, clients,...

We are beginning to see a pattern in frameworks updating or adding additional privacy controls. Whether they are long overdue or not is neither here nor there as they are now being stood up. From CCPA becoming CPRA, ISO 2700...

Have you ever dealt with a client, prospect, or perhaps an internal event that caused harm to your business or others? If so I am sure you can relate to feelings of shame, and embarrassment and I am sure many sleepless night...

There is some buzz circulating about the upcoming CompTIA Cybersecurity Trustmark, Compliance with frameworks, and how to get started as a solution provider. I sit down with Matt Lee of Pax8 to discuss the opportunities pres...

There is still a mindset in our industry that says, " You are too small to need X." With the experiences shared by Sarah Goffman of TCE Communications, we cover the necessity of firewalls, Endpoint protection, and other secur...

I sit down with Kevin McDonald of Alvaka to talk about the three main scam types out there and what they look like. While we might not be able to prevent all threat actors from prevailing, we can make it more difficult and i...

So this episode is not about Lastpass specifically but about Password Hygiene and best practices around securing your credentials. We talk about the better-than-nothing model and even some unconventional ideas around password...

Not to follow in everyone's footsteps on predictions... I waited to publish until January 3rd 2023. I had an opportunity to sit with Steve Alexander, Facilitator and founder of MSP-Ignite, to talk about his hope and predicti...

Looking back on 2022 with Joshua Smith of Reliaquest and Charles Love of ShowTech Solutions on looking back on the highs and lows of 2022 and what we hope for in 2023.

I brought Jim Harryman back to finish the conversation on policies and controls. We left out a few key pieces.

Whether you have decided to get prepared for an ISO, SOC2, or other audit can be a daunting task. Listen to the journey and all of it's ups and downs that Jim Harryman goes through to get a SOC2 certification and all of the ...

The impact of an incident is often unknown until we enter into the aftermath. How it happened can't always be answered but the goal post incident is to determine what can be done to prevent this in the future. How do we pre...

How do we create better relationships between vendors and solution providers? How do we get vendors to lean into their partner success? How do I build confidence in those relationships? This and more as I sit down with Kevin...

We spend a lot of time and energy to protect our businesses and our client's businesses from threat actors, natural disasters and even user error. I'm pretty sure we don't spend enough time focusing on the backups of the dat...

Risk has been at the top of mind for several episodes as of late. So much so that it seems to show up in my Flipboard news feed and suddenly a LinkedIn post popped up by David Schultis, of Red Panda, talking about Risk to UN...

Within every MSP we have roles that involve Account Management and in some cases have even evolved the title to vCIO or other name. The challenge in many cases is how to charge for this role? Should it be a standalone servic...

In talking about risk we often don't address risk management plans at all. In this episode I discuss with Jim Harryman of Kinetic Technology Group, all things risk. It often starts with a Risk Assessment and we step through...

I always have wondered why we assume our end users know how to use the technology we provide them. The age old argument of 10% of the product's capability is actually used. I sit down with Charles Love to talk about all the...

I couldn't let it go... The browser or browsers have the potential to be the trojan horse. I sit down with Jim Harryman of Kinetic Group to discuss what we can do within the browser to ensure a more secure posture with resou...

You can't secure others if you don't first secure yourself. Security should be just as important at home as it is at work and you take responsibility for your actions. I sit down with Scott Augenbaum to discuss what is in ...

Regardless of which browser(s) you use how often do you patch them. Do you maintain the extensions and restrict what is and isn't sync'd. I sit down with Kenneth May of Swift Chip to discuss how we need to do a better job c...

In cybersecurity we don't spend as much time as we probably should in the area of onboarding and offboarding. Initiated by the HR department or in smaller companies perhaps handled by the company owner to bring in new employ...