Topic: Managed Services - Page 107

Feel free to tackle only simple challenges, channel pros. Just don’t expect to make much at it. Take it from this week’s guest host, podcaster and industry analyst Dave Sobel, it’s the hard stuff that produces big money. Dave, Matt, and Rich have plenty to say about that topic, as well as the news from Acronis’s CyberFit Summit, and Dave has a few thoughts to share about Kaseya’s efforts to harden its software against future breaches too.

Live together from sunny Miami, Erick and Rich discuss the strategic implications of the Acronis Cyber Network, the challenges of preserving office culture in a work-from-anywhere organization, and the misadventures of what may be the world’s stupidest hiker.

Here are steps MSPs can take to improve their security posture and preparedness if ransomware or a supply chain attack hits.

This Expert Guide offers planning tips for selling your business, a checklist that will help you find just the right M&A candidate if you’re on the hunt, and advice on how to ensure a smooth onboarding process once you do buy another MSP. It also includes some perspective from an MSP business owner who has successfully gone through the M&A process.

This Expert Guide includes tips on building a work-from-home security stack, a look at the IoT security minefield (and opportunity), some best practices for cloud security, and a first-hand account of how one channel pro is expanding the circle of safety for her business, customers, and employers.

This Expert Guide offers some advice on partnering with security service providers to expand the skills and resources needed to keep customers safe, a look at rising threats like “smishing” and deep-fakes, and practical tips for incident response management.

Everyone else is working from home these days. Why not The King? You know who’s not working from home this week? Rich Freeman. He’s in Las Vegas for Kaseya’s ConnectIT conference and has plenty of news from Kaseya to share. He and Matt also discuss HP’s big new collaboration and conferencing portfolio as well as the challenges and pleasures of running a tech business with your spouse.

Side by side for the first time since COVID, Erick and Rich discuss Kaseya’s take on its RMM breach, trueing up your managed services clients, and a woman who went to sleep alone and woke up next to a meteorite.

Valuation, ownership model, financial benchmarks, recurring revenue, and customer retention are among the factors MSPs must pay attention to when selling their business.

Wisdom passed down through generations has helped powersolution.com execute on its vision of building and scaling a security-first business with a great company culture.