Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we explore the convergence of software asset management (SAM), SaaS, and FinOps.

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what's trending in the tech world and share practical ways to navigate these shifts. This week, we're looking at spear-phishing: how cybercriminals weaponize social engineering, why your natural instinct can act as a security blind spot, and practical steps to verify suspicious requests before you take action. I would like to make a confession: I’m a well-versed tech expert, but I almost fell for a phishing scam.

Most organizations experience a strange DNS problem at some point: The same domain name means something different depending on who's asking for it. For example, a single internal app, workspace.company.com, might need to serve a locked-down instance to finance, a live staging build to engineering, and a stable production build to support — all under one domain and from the same DNS server.

MSPs are maturing endpoint security with patching, vulnerability remediation, and antivirus protection. But one high-impact risk still slips through in many client environments: unmanaged peripheral devices. A single unauthorized USB drive can copy sensitive client data in minutes and introduce malware into otherwise protected systems. This is why we've launched Device Control in MSP Central—an MSP-ready solution capable of governing every device that touches your client endpoints.