Recent Articles
-
Managed Services Still Not for Everyone
I am not an early adopter. I tend to view with suspicion new gadgets that promise to change your life for the better in ways unimaginable. To give a few examples: I questioned the need for power windows for a long time. I was one of the last people I know to get a cell…
-
Larry’s Lucky Seven Laws of Managed Services
Managed services are now commonplace in the channel. After years of experimentation and debate, we’ve achieved near universal acceptance for what constitutes a managed service. Yet, solution-providers-turned-managed-service providers continue to struggle with the transformation of service delivery and adjusting their businesses. I started writing these seven laws of managed services nearly two years ago after…
-
Disgraced MSP Chalk in Hot Water Again
As if Managed Service Providers don’t have enough trouble gaining trust, a former New York MSP owner still awaiting trial for allegedly stealing his employees’ identities in 2006 is back in jail facing a new set of federal fraud charges. Terrence Chalk now stands accused, along with his pregnant girlfriend, of trying to bilk a…
-
Core Security Extends Impact Product Line
Core Security Technologies this week rolled out a new wares aimed at giving users greater breadth and depth of testing options. The vendor introduced Core IMPACT Essential along with version 7.6 of its flagship product which will now be known as Core IMPACT Pro. Collectively, the two products will now support a comprehensive set of…
-
CompTIA and OnForce Team to Raise Skill Levels of IT Service Professionals
The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), and OnForce, a marketplace for IT service professionals, announced today that they are working together to bring training and certification opportunities to more than 12,000 IT technicians. The pair will collaborate on a number of programs aimed at raising the certified technical skills of IT professionals and helping them…
-
Breaches, Flaws and Security, Oh My!
With all the high profile security breaches in the retail sector and well-documented flaws in DNS servers there is probably not better time than the present to be in the security assessment business. Just about every customer on the planet right now is realizing that its security posture is probably not as strong as…