Guest Contributors

  1. Checklist To Protect Your Client Data From Ransomware Attacks 9/21/2021

    Ransomware attacks are rampant without any sign of slowing down. This is a growing concern for MSPs and their clients. And with data now living in more places than it did before, protecting the distributed assets is a daunting task.

  2. 70% Of MSPs Saw Increased Revenue As Companies Work From Home 9/20/2021

    In 2020, we faced one of the most challenging periods in human history. The calls for staying at home throughout the COVID-19 pandemic were no surprise for certain industries - remote working started blooming and paved the way to seeking further growth opportunities.

  3. Here’s Why It’s Still Important To Diversify Your Data In The Cloud 9/13/2021

    Public cloud companies, especially the largest and most well-resourced ones, have a lot of built-in features for making servers highly available for their customers. But even global tech giants suffer from incidents and outages.

  4. How MSPs Can Easily Manage Data Protection At Scale 9/9/2021

    When we’re talking about MSPs, virtual machines are probably one of the safest cloud-hosting environments. Besides cloud servers, VMs can be hosted on high-end on-premises servers. With lower failure rates, cloud and high-end on-premise servers are ideal for these types of systems.

  5. Best Practices For Remote Employee Onboarding 9/7/2021

    A healthy professional relationship with employees starts with the onboarding process. Companies that take their employee onboarding seriously can easily develop a positive work culture that ensures higher engagement, retention and productivity. Since 91% of new hires consider quitting within the first month if a job doesn’t live up to their expectations, it is safe to say that onboarding can make or break the talent acquisition process.

  6. Bot Attacks: Top Threats And Trends 9/1/2021

    Not all bots are created equal. While some bots, such as search engine crawlers, are good, bad bots are built to carry out malicious attacks at scale. Traffic from these bad bots is exploding, and this in-depth report explores emerging traffic patterns, live examples of bot behavior and detection, and the steps you should take to protect your business.

  7. Security Risks Of Remote Employee Offboarding 8/31/2021

    If you are in IT, handling offboarding for employees leaving the company is always a tricky job. With the sheer number of security risks it presents, you need to make sure you leave no stone unturned. From revoking access permissions to ensuring complete data security, there are a myriad of tasks that just cannot be overlooked. With remote working environments becoming the norm in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the process of offboarding employees has become even more complicated.

  8. 2021 Emerging Technology Top 10 List 8/30/2021

    New technologies continue to emerge at an unprecedented rate, fueled, in part, by the global pandemic. But adoption often lags behind invention. CompTIA’s Emerging Technology Community recognizes the gap between the promise and profit of emerging technologies and has shifted the focus its of annual list of emerging technologies to uncover the top use cases for artificial intelligence (AI) and internet of things (IoT).

  9. State Of The Channel 2021 8/30/2021

    CompTIA’s State of the Channel 2021 provides an in-depth review of the trends shaping the technology ecosystems of US, Canada, UK, Benelux and ANZ.

  10. 4 Trends To Help MSPs Maximize Business Opportunities In 2021 8/30/2021

    Learn four trends MSPs need to know, along with tips and advice to help you evolve your business—based on CompTIA research.