Crypto Ransomware: Fighting A Real Problem With Real Solutions

Business Solutions Newsletter | June 27, 2016 | View web version here.   In This Issue: Common Transitioning Myths To Avoid Find A Market Niche For Your Managed Services How Cloud SaaS Improves Your Endpoint Cybersecurity Business Next-Generation Threats Exposed How MSPs Can Help SMBs With Cyber Threats Improving Security With Cloud-Based Antivirus And Antimalware Do Your Endpoint Security Solutions Pass This Test? Best Practices For Transitioning To A Managed Services Model Crypto Ransomware: Fighting A Real Problem With Real Solutions Sponsor   As an MSP, you can protect your clients from ransomware by understanding the threat and by having the right technologies, policies, people, and processes in place to counter this insidious attack. Try a 30-day trial of our proven next-generation endpoint security and see first-hand how Webroot SecureAnywhere™ Business Endpoint Protection delivers superior malware protection while lowering your costs and boosting your bottom line. Featured Articles Common Transitioning Myths To Avoid The IT ecosystem is changing faster than ever. The cloud alone has had a major impact on what customers need and expect. Other trends, such as the rise in mobility, have also contributed to the ever-shifting landscape. Find A Market Niche For Your Managed Services Staying focused on one industry helps this MSP experience year-over-year double-digit growth and develop market expertise. How Cloud SaaS Improves Your Endpoint Cybersecurity Business Managed services providers who want a return to the simpler security days of on-premises solutions are going to be challenged in the new cloud era. Although events like the high-profile iCloud hack of 2014 resulted in widespread news coverage, as well as hand-wringing, new SaaS solutions that focus on particular security controls for cloud-based IT resources have also brought about enormous business opportunities. Next-Generation Threats Exposed Today's threats are truly global and highly dynamic. Many attacks are staged, delivered, and terminated within a matter of hours, or even minutes, having harvested user credentials and other sensitive information, encrypted devices through ransomware, or otherwise acquired the means to achieve financial gain. Countering these threats requires an innovative approach to attack detection that leverages advanced detection techniques and threat intelligence. How MSPs Can Help SMBs With Cyber Threats While the nature of cyber threats has evolved and escalated over the past five years, it is clear that small to midsize businesses have not kept pace. Improving Security With Cloud-Based Antivirus And Antimalware Recently, the Lloyd Group was looking to move its services to the cloud. The MSP was evaluating various cloud-based tools and learned about cybersecurity provider Webroot, recalls Bill Goldin, director of technology at the New York metropolitan-area company. What initially attracted Lloyd to Webroot was the lightweight nature of the vendor's antimalware solution. Do Your Endpoint Security Solutions Pass This Test? Here are the lessons learned as a managed IT security provider updated the antivirus software for a 130-endpoint customer. Best Practices For Transitioning To A Managed Services Model The managed services model brings solutions providers recurring revenue, deeper client engagement, and greater business stability. But the transition requires careful planning and execution to avoid pitfalls such as underpricing services, picking the wrong technology, or failing to properly communicate the change to customers. Main Story Crypto Ransomware: Fighting A Real Problem With Real Solutions   Crypto ransomware has come a long way over the past two-and-a-half years and no single solution can stop it 100 percent of the time. But the right recovery and mitigation strategies can help MSPs keep businesses a step ahead of this virulent threat and ensure their clients are effectively protected. Connect With Business Solutions:       Ensure our newsletter reaches your inbox by following these whitelist instructions. If you need to update your Business Solutions user profile, please visit here. This newsletter is being sent to ignoble.experiment@arconati.us. To cancel your subscription to the Business Solutions newsletter, please opt out here. You may also send an e-mail to newsletter@vertmarkets.com.     © Copyright 2016 Vertmarkets, Inc, 5340 Fryling Rd Suite 300, Erie, PA 16510. All rights reserved. All product names contained herein are the trademarks of their respective holders.