65% of clients expect their MSPs to offer security services

The ContraForce Lightning - Security Services Roundup newsletter provides a timely collection of news and insights for practitioners and business leaders at security service providers.?

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Clients increasingly expect MSPs to offer security services, according to UK survey?

The research, conducted by OnePoll in Spring 2024, polled 250 senior leaders at UK-based MSPs, found that 65% of MSP customers now expect their provider to manage either their cybersecurity infrastructure or both their cybersecurity and IT infrastructure. Read more.?

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CISOs are more and more focused on outcome-driven metrics?

Service providers would benefit from helping CISOs align cybersecurity results to business success. Read this article to learn more about how CISOs are going beyond MTTD and MTTR when reporting to their boards.?

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8 cloud security issues not to be overlooked?

As a security advisor to your clients, it is important to stay on top of often overlooked security issues, including those affecting their cloud resources. This article from CSO highlights 8 key issues that your client security teams’ may miss.?

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Microsoft announced mandatory MFA for Azure users?

The phased approach will start with Azure portal, Microsoft Entra administration center and Intune admin center users required to use MFA for sign-in by October. A second phase will start “in early 2025” for Azure Command Line Interface (CLI), PowerShell, Azure mobile app and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), according to Microsoft.?Read more.?

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Ransomware attacks up again in 2024, but smaller % of victims are paying?

There has been a 10% increase in victims posted to ransomware group leak sites so far this year. On a more positive note, the number of ransomware payments have decreased by more than 27%, suggesting a smaller proportion of victims are being successfully extorted after a ransomware attack. Read more. ?

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AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud earnings Q2 2024?

CRN compared key metrics from the quarter for the three largest infrastructure as a service (IaaS) companies including revenue, sales growth, cloud market share and operating income. Read their analysis.?