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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.

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.

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.

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CMO Mike Puglia (pictured) discussed those and other product plans at the vendor’s ConnectIT event this morning.

Speaking at the vendor’s ConnectIT event today, CEO Fred Voccola (pictured) said Kaseya let users down by failing to prevent attackers from breaching its RMM solution, but is investing heavily in efforts to prevent future attacks

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