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Follow these fundamentals to architect a security strategy that fits your customer, with room to grow.

A recent MicroAge survey of IT leaders finds MSPs are falling short in three key areas: cloud strategy, security, and IT spending.

Threat hunting proactively looks for threats your automated detection tools might miss, providing additional protection for your customers.

A survey of MSPs conducted in partnership with ChannelPro shows that using fewer security and BDR vendors saves nearly $230,000 on average and that using integrated security and BDR products cuts breach recovery times by an average of five hours.

The name change is the latest manifestation of the vendor’s ongoing effort to move past RMM software alone toward offering a complete and integrated managed services toolset.

Outsourcing security provides MSPs access to valuable expertise and technology, but it is still a shared responsibility.

Hardware from Apple and Google, software from NetApp, security integrations from Acronis and SaaS Alerts, and an uninvited intergalactic visitor for a woman in British Columbia are just a few of the many stories we waited until now to tell you about.

With the VSA ransomware incident behind it, the company is spending heavily on additional penetration testing and best practices endorsed by Jason Manar (pictured), its new chief information security officer.

The new offering, called Secure Payments, includes tools for identifying payment-related vulnerabilities in a customer environment and then eliminating them via ConnectBooster’s encrypted end-to-end payment processing network.

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