03.25.21 -- What's The True Value Of Your Data?

In Episode 1 of the series, Liongard’s Founder & CEO Joe Alapat and CRO Adam Slutskin will dive into sales, marketing, and operational strategies you can start implementing right away to gain new customers and increase your monthly recurring revenue for a positive and immediate impact.

According to data from a recent report, only 60% of office workers worldwide believe their company is resilient against cyberattacks. Nearly one in four (23%) admit to not knowing, while nearly one in five (18%) flat-out think it isn’t.

Eric Gaffin is the director of cybersecurity and compliance services for Advanced Technology Group, a managed security and IT services company with a 20-year track record of delivering cutting-edge solutions to clients in heavily regulated industries. See how he’s using ActivTrak to address his clients’ compliance needs.

Cybersecurity technology is an integral part of any business, helping to reduce the risk of data breaches. Despite its importance, selling this technology is simply not as interesting, or as simple, as talking about features and functions of point of sale technology. Leading a conversation with security is a death sentence to a sale, as the average business owner does not have the time nor the technical understanding to realize its significance. Instead, resellers should keep their security knowledge in store to help express urgency at the end of a sale.

There are three key considerations that field service organizations must take into account when building a modern workforce, including the changing demographics from baby boomer to millennial, the impact of technology on field service operations, and the growth of the gig economy. These three areas present significant opportunities and challenges for field workforce management today and in the future.

Feeling the Pain of Internet Congestion: Business applications are now competing with a lot of different types of internet traffic as more people are working from home. Compared to internet-reliant business communications and applications, typical residential internet use consists of a lot of “bulk data.” Bulk data includes streaming media, video games, casual web browsing, and other entertainment-based consumption. When sharing an internet connection with multiple residential users who are on platforms using bulk data, business users’ data gets squeezed and they feel the pain of choppy VoIP calls and video conferences.

What you need to know about enterprise-grade backup and restore for mail, calendar, contacts, OneDrive, and SharePoint.

Historically, organizations have looked at an existing business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) plan through the lens of natural disasters and terrorism that would affect the physical location of an organization’s headquarters or data centers. Their main focus was on being able to relocate those services to another location to restore business capabilities within a predefined amount of time.

In our business, we talk with MSPs and MSSPs regularly and our conversations often turn to how service providers handle vulnerability management for their clients. All too often the service provider has added a bare-bones service around vulnerability management to upsell or grow their customer base. Compared to SOC-as-a-service or incident response – the more exciting services normally associated with cybersecurity – vulnerability management gets viewed as a box to check.

Implementations of a multi-cloud strategy have increased significantly over the past year. In addition to using private clouds, employees working remotely are also accessing applications from public clouds and consuming services delivered from the cloud. The traditional data center-server, hub and spoke model has been replaced by the end user as the focus – sitting on an endpoint on the LAN edge accessing resources in multiple private and public clouds. Hybrid environments and distributed computing will be standard for the foreseeable future.