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Why Taking the Right Security Measures Matters
Security measures More Vulnerabilities Than Ever The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) system reported about 9,400 new vulnerabilities, with two-thirds of them involving networks. More Unique Attacks Than Ever Of 1.7 trillion attacks made against intrusion prevention systems, 37 million of them were unique. That’s a 100% increase from 2013. Most Common Exploits The Nuclear,…
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New MSP Consortium Releases RMM Platform Tool
New MSP Consortium Releases RMM Platform Tool The new Managed Service Provider Consortium (MSPC) has launched a free remote management and monitoring (RMM) platform tool with integrated professional services automation. Members can use the new platform tool to help eliminate expensive licensing fees, improve business performance and increase revenues through a customized, lead exchange platform,…
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How MSPs Can Help Medical Firms Protect Their Data
By Doug Truitt As the health care industry becomes increasingly technologically grounded, the oath taken by medical professionals to “do no harm” should extend to protecting patients’ personal data. For doctors’ offices, pharmacies and other medical facilities, taking precautions to safeguard the sensitive information under their care is not just ethically sound in that it…
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RSA Shows Partners the Security Ropes
With the annual RSA security conference set to kick off next week, much of the attention in the channel community naturally turns to security. With demand for IT security expertise at an all-time high, more organizations than ever are looking for external services to help secure their IT environments. The challenge is that creating a…
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Why IT Channel Firms Need to Bolster Their Security Offerings
Mobile security Security Headaches Malware and hacking are the top areas of concern for 50% and 49% of business executive and technology professional survey respondents, respectively. Other top areas of concern are privacy (45%), data loss/leakage (40%) and social engineering/phishing (38%). Higher Priority 74% of companies said security is a higher priority today than it…
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More Firms Meeting PCI DSS, but Only Temporarily
PCI DSS PCI DSS Compliance Trends Over the past three years, overall average compliance grew from 53% to 94%, an increase of 77%. Over the same period, full compliance increased from less than 8% to 20%, a 167% change. PCI DSS Compliance Improves Somewhat in 2014 The number of organizations that achieved full compliance grew…
