Newsletter | October 17, 2022

10.17.22 -- The MSP's Guide To Building A Better Cloud Practice: Tips From MSPs For MSPs
 
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Vendor Management: Documenting What IT Needs To Know
 
Submitted by IT Glue

Vendor management in most companies is handled by teams involved in procurement or accounts payable. If you Google “vendor management software,” you’ll see the kinds of enterprise tools they use. However, IT has its own unique interest in vendor management, notably around security risks. We can assure you that the accounts payable team isn’t tracking the cybersecurity risk profile of vendors, nor would you want them to. So, what should vendor management look like when viewed through the IT lens?
Fuelled Networks Increases Threat Monitoring Adoption By 80%
Submitted by Field Effect

Fuelled Networks isn’t your average IT services provider. And that’s good news for its small and midsize business (SMB) customers throughout Ottawa, Nepean, Kanata, Gloucester, and the National Capital Region. The company plans, manages, and services networks with a constant eye on how IT and security align with a customer’s business strategy.
Profiting From SMB Digital Transformation
Submitted by Bigleaf Networks

How SD-WAN unlocks business potential for MSPs.
The MSP’s Guide To Building A Better Cloud Practice: Tips From MSPs For MSPs
 
Submitted by Datto Inc.

As small and medium businesses (SMBs) continue to shift their workloads to the cloud, managed service providers (MSPs) can take advantage of this trend by building a cloud practice. Offering cloud-based managed services enables MSPs to better support customers moving workloads to the cloud and create new revenue streams.
AI Best Practices For Business Decision Makers And Practitioners
Submitted by CompTIA

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a branch of computer science that uses algorithms (programmatic instructions) to process inputs and deliver outputs that mimic human abilities such as cognition, natural language understanding, speech and image understanding, common sense reasoning, and knowledge representation. Machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL), the subfields of AI driving innovation and headlines, have introduced improvements to pattern recognition thereby supercharging tasks such as classification, prediction, and clustering.
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The Cost Of A Lost Customer
 
Submitted by IT Glue

Cost savings are great for bottom-line improvements. However, getting this process wrong can backfire and end up costing you more money. The MSP Cost Savers Sessions are designed to give you guidance on where you can quickly and effectively make cost savings that have the RIGHT impact on your bottom line.
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Over 70% Of Organizations Feel They’ve Wasted 25-75% Of Cybersecurity Budget, According To RSA
 
By Sanjay Raja, Gurucul

Recently at the RSA Conference, we (Gurucul) conducted a survey to discover what the attendees felt were the biggest threats to their security operations. We wanted to better understand the key challenges when detecting new and emerging threats, how long it takes teams to detect these threats, where the biggest threats emanate from, and more. Let’s dive into the results.