How To Protect Clients From Phishing Attacks

Business Solutions Newsletter | January 26, 2017 | View web version here.   In This Issue: How To Protect Your Customers From Ransomware What Is The Cloud, And Why Use It? How To Build A Successful Cloud Compensation Plan Correct These 5 Common MSP Pricing Mistakes 5 Best Practices For Onboarding New Customers Service-Level Agreements: 3 Best Practices For MSPs How The MX Logic End-Of-Life Affects MSPs How To Protect Clients From Phishing Attacks Featured Articles How To Protect Your Customers From Ransomware Ransomware attacks have exploded, targeting businesses and organizations of all sizes. Worse, it's showing no signs of slowing down as ransomware attacks are proven to work and earn cash for the criminals behind them. Understanding how they succeed is critical to helping you protect your client's business. What Is The Cloud, And Why Use It? Not only can the cloud save you valuable time and labor costs, it can also keep software up to date, ensure investment and maintenance costs are kept to a minimum, and maintain fully functioning devices. This not only leads to an increase in profits and productivity, but also better protects your data. To comprehend how cloud services are capable of all of this is simply a matter of understanding what the cloud is, how it works, and how various types of cloud services differ. How To Build A Successful Cloud Compensation Plan Compared to selling hardware or traditional software licenses where a single deal can allow a rep to cash in a substantial commission right away, getting the same or higher level of compensation with cloud services requires more effort. Correct These 5 Common MSP Pricing Mistakes When a new MSP opens, how to price services is the furthest thing from conscious thought. So, you invent a price, charge the customer, and get on with running your business — until you are wondering why you aren't making more money. One reason for this could be your pricing models. Here are five common mistakes MSPs make with pricing their services, as well as ways to correct them. 5 Best Practices For Onboarding New Customers You've just won a new customer. The onboarding process is your first opportunity to impress that customer with your thoroughness and professionalism. You can ensure onboarding is a positive experience for customers — and for your team — by following five best practices. Service-Level Agreements: 3 Best Practices For MSPs When it comes to creating an SLA, MSPs — especially those that are just transitioning from a break-fix to a managed services model — often struggle to identify what should be included in these documents. The following are some best practices MSPs can leverage to get the process started. How The MX Logic End-Of-Life Affects MSPs There are many times when VARs and MSPs need to select new products to fulfill client needs. One case in particular occurs when a vendor decides to end a product or service. In light of Intel's announcement that it will end its MX Logic antispam service on January 11th, 2017, many MSPs are looking for a new email security solution to offer to their clients. How To Protect Clients From Phishing Attacks Todays' cybercriminals are organized and business-minded, making investments and expecting returns. Some invest in big targets; others invest in massive attacks, such as ransomware and botnets. These massive attacks are behind most cybercrime. They can only succeed by exploiting a widespread technology — and what is more widespread than email? Most Popular News • Equinox Payments Integrates Android Pay's Seamless Payments And Loyalty Feature • Winning MSPs Capitalizing On Cloud And Comprehensive Solutions • iPayment Holdings, Inc. And iPayment Inc. Announce Comprehensive Refinancing Agreement • Equinox Payments Introduces The Luxe 6000m Modular Payment Solution • How Trump's Presidency Will Affect Cybersecurity • Teamwork Retail Certifies Epson TM-m30 POS Receipt Printer • Epson Launches Revolutionary OmniLink TM-T88VI Series POS Printers • SATO Selected By Business Solutions Magazine VAR Subscribers As One Of 2017 Best Channel Vendors Featured Products And Services   Help Desk Manager - Award-Winning Help Desk And Ticket Tracking For MSPs Download Brochure • Request Information Solarwinds MSP   StorageCraft ShadowProtect Desktop Download Datasheet • Request Information StorageCraft Technology Corporation 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 2017 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.