The managed service provider (MSP) industry continues to expand, and this trend is not likely to change any time soon. Even in the current economic situation, where recession is in sight, demand for MSPs remains strong, resulting in growth opportunities this year. This is backed by the fact that 58% of participants at WatchGuard's webinar Top 3 Growth Opportunities for MSPs in 2023 and Beyond believe that cybersecurity spending will be maintained going forwards.

Learn about the day-to-day life of a QA engineer and the different techniques and processes used by the QA engineering team at GitGuardian to ensure high-quality products.

Despite the popularity of the cloud, Microsoft Active Directory (AD) remains a crucial component of the IT infrastructure for many organizations. Indeed, Active Directory often serves as the central identity repository and provides vital authentication and authorization services — so keeping it clean and well organized is vital. Discover exactly why regular AD cleanup is critical — and the key signs of a poorly maintained AD environment.

Research shows that most of today’s cyberattacks occur when a cybercriminal gains access to a system through stolen credentials. Users with extra privileges, particularly IT administrators, are often targeted by threat actors who steal those privileges to access sensitive information and take control of systems. With an increase in virtual and hybrid work, across both the public and private sectors, these kinds of attacks are only becoming more common.

Security information and event management (SIEM) systems are crucial to cyber security, providing a solution for collecting and analyzing alerts from all manner of security tools, network infrastructure, and applications. But simply having a SIEM is not enough because to be truly effective, it must be properly configured, managed, and monitored 24x7.

CommScope is a massive tech company with more than 30,000 employees. The organization works with companies around the world and helps to establish network infrastructure systems for hospitals, schools, federal agencies, and more. CommScope is based out of Hickory, North Carolina, and has been in business since 1976. The massive company has an annual revenue of 9.23 billion USD and manages substantial networks for businesses throughout the United States.

Data breaches are harmful to the companies they hit as well as their customers, and this week telecommunications and networking companies were hit especially hard. T-Mobile and AT&T both suffered from serious breaches that put their customers at risk of being exposed. Networking giant CommScope was the victim of a vicious ransomware attack, putting network infrastructure technology at risk. Grocery chain Albertson's and dating sites were also exposed this week.

One of Canada’s largest credit unions, Coast Capital Savings Credit Union (CSS), with over 50 branches across the country, needed to protect critical PII data stored in their AWS cloud environments, Amazon Redshift, AWS EMR, and AWS S3. CSS had to meet Canadian regulatory standards for compliance in 2021, including the Personal Information Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), along with a data transformation initiative surrounding its architecture.