Guest Contributors

1. Your Antivirus Is Antiquated 8/13/2020

   Your antivirus is antiquated. It’s vintage, invented in the 80’s for a completely different world than yours. It’s always chasing yesterday’s virus signatures. It doesn’t keep up with the cybercriminals, their ideas, or their malware. Yet you keep using it for yourself and your businesses. Relying on antivirus for remote workers as a cybersecurity strategy is a huge mistake. And it starts at the very root of how antivirus works both for you and against you.

2. There Are Savings To Be Had In Cybersecurity. Just Not Where You Might Think. 8/12/2020

   Prior to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, Webroot’s annual Threat Report highlighted a 640% increase in active phishing sites on the web. However difficult it may be to believe (or easy, depending on your outlook), things have gotten even worse since.

3. Bouncing Back From The Pandemic A Step-By-Step Guide For MSPs 8/12/2020

   To try to fight the isolation and uncertainty brought on by the COVID-19 outbreak, a few weeks ago we began what we’re referring to as “Office Hours” on the Webroot Community. It’s meant to be a forum where users can come together and pose their COVID/cybersecurity-related questions to some of our experts, and we try to help however we can.

4. 7 Things World-Class Sales Teams Do (Even During A Pandemic) 8/10/2020

   If you’ve been feeling as if life and business are surreal lately, you aren’t alone. We were thrilled when renowned and respected sales coach Jack Daly, was our special guest for a recent webinar, sharing his thoughts about living in unusual times. His over-arching advice was that the tenets of great sales organizations that remain true even in the unrest of today’s business landscape.

5. Making Co-Managed IT Work 8/10/2020

   An increasing number of MSPs are finding themselves getting into the co-managed space. The economic rationale is fairly straightforward – the opportunity is growing. Consider this: technology is increasingly complex, good tech talent is hard to find, and businesses are becoming more and more dependent on technology. Put those three trends together and the demand for IT is increasing, and to the point where even larger SMBs – more on the medium end of that – are finding it difficult to handle everything in house. Enter the managed service provider.

6. Why You Should Delete TikTok Now 7/30/2020

   “Delete TikTok now,” tweeted Anonymous on July 1, 2020. It was right after TikTok was found to be secretly reading the contents of iOS users’ clipboards. If TikTok is active on your or your customers phones, the app can basically read everything you copy on another device: passwords, work documents, sensitive emails, and financial information.

7. Is MDM Harming Your Organization? 7/23/2020

   Cumbersome mobile device management (MDM) strategies rely on first having to solve all company security problems, then locking those solutions in place. Both halves are suspicious and it's a lot harder than it may seem to secure a device fully. Yesterday’s security threats are never the same as todays. Malware is polymorphic so it’s evolving minute by minute. Worse, by trying to control human behavior on the device, the technology actually pushes users to work around company policies—then turn to personal devices for business tasks.

8. Driving Agility: Discovery, Documenting And Diagramming 7/20/2020

   As an IT professional, you’re playing the part of both a detective and a doctor on a daily basis. Whether you’re developing an IT environment from the ground up, or walking into one set up by your predecessor, there’s a discovery process involved. In the case of the latter, the challenge might be figuring out what backwards logic resulted in the convoluted web of workstations and servers. The only way you’ll be able to troubleshoot issues, or optimize an IT environment, is by having a complete and accurate understanding of its individual components and how everything fits together. Having the agility to remedy issues quickly, or reconfigure things to meet changing business needs relies on this understanding.

9. Recovery Continues As Second Half Of 2020 Kicks Off 7/16/2020

   As we start the second half of 2020, our latest Field Intelligence report points to a continued recovery across the industry.

10. Top 4 Marketplace Tips To Find Quality Technicians 7/16/2020

    When you send a technician to a job site, your reputation is on the line. You need quality technicians that can get the job done, and get it done right.