Each morning MSSP Alert broadcasts a quick lineup of news, analysis and chatter from across the global MSSP (managed security services provider) ecosystem.
Here’s the lineup for Wednesday, June 7, 2017:
5. Cybercrime as a Service: The majority of threats faced by most organizations are opportunistic in nature fueled by a pervasive Crime-as-a-Service infrastructure, a new Fortinet research report suggests. We'll share more thoughts soon.
4. GDPR Compliance: Qualys, the cloud-based security company, has developed purpose-built content, workflows and reporting to help customers comply with the European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
3. Midmarket Security: How do you build a midmarket SaaS security company? J. Paul Haynes, CEO of eSentire, shares some views.
2. Datto Does Security? Yup. The company is best-known as a business continuity specialist focused entirely on MSPs. But Datto has launched a unified threat management (UTM) appliance, and board member Steve Herrod is an investor in five cybersecurity companies. Also, Datto Chief Information Security Officer Ryan Weeks is focused on product, employee and customer security issues. We'll share more thoughts from Weeks later today.
1. Ransomware Conspiracy Theory: Some folks suggest the recent WannaCry Ransomware outbreak was actually a conspiracy to drive up BitCoin's value. I'm not so sure. But I certainly think the attacks were a test of sorts -- a global poke and prod of IT systems to see how software can further be weaponized...
