Recent Articles
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Cowbell Cypher Creates Insurance Opportunity for MSSPs
Cowbell Cypher, which makes use of AI to assess the cybersecurity liabilities of IT organizations before deciding whether to offer cybersecurity insurance, has expanded its partner program to reward managed security service providers (MSSPs) for helping land new clients via the Cowbell Connect partner program. MSSPs also gain access to Cowbell Factors, the risk quantification…
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AT&T Launches SASE Cybersecurity Solution
By Chris Ehrlich DALLAS — AT&T is partnering with Fortinet on a new secure access service edge (SASE) cybersecurity offering for enterprises. AT&T’s SASE with Fortinet expands AT&T’s managed security services provider (MSSP) portfolio and is being described as a mix of technology, processes and people. The offering is one of the first globally managed…
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Survey Shows Security Becoming Major MSP Focus
Over the course of the last two years, the security reputation of managed service providers (MSPs) has taken a hit in the wake of several high-profile breaches. Cybercriminals have determined the most efficient way to compromise multiple IT environments at once is to target the MSP that serves multiple customers. Those attacks, known as buffalo…
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Chief Security Officer (CSO) Job Description & Salary
By Sarah Hunt The chief security officer (CSO) may turn out to be the corporate hero we didn’t know we would need just a few years ago. These C-suite executives are charged with an increasingly challenging and crucial task: protecting the often billions of dollars worth of digital and physical assets being held by enterprises…
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Fallout from SolarsWinds Orion Breach to Reverberate Across Channel
It’s pretty amazing how managed security services providers (MSSPs) can go from being goats to something of a hero in a few short days. When the breach of the Orion network monitoring software was first disclosed by FireEye, much of the initial focus was on what the MSSP might have done wrong to allow such…
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Managed Service Security Providers (MSSPs): Making the MSP Switch
You hear it all the time. It’s no longer enough to be merely a managed service provider (MSP). It’s time to graduate to managed security service provider (MSSP). New publications have emerged to promote it. They make it all sound easy. After all, how hard is it to install a firewall, right? See Just How…
