MSP Voice Episode 53 – “SECURITY” with John Kulas

Guest: John Kulas

Company: undisclosed

This week is a special episode where I have a security expert, John Kulas, join me to talk about security. John has spent a lot of time on the security side working for different companies. While he doesn’t work for an MSP he does have some great tips for MSPs (and others) when it comes to security. John talks first about his experiences in visiting cloud data centers and then shares some great tips on firewall rules. We also discuss some best practices around audits and when they should be performed. We finish things up with a special rapid-fire round.

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MSP News of the Week

• Congratulations to all the MSP 501 winners
  https://www.channelfutures.com/msp-501/channel-futures-reveals-2019-msp-501
  Brief: Channel Futures has released their annual list of the top 501 MSPs, congrats to all who made the list.

• More MSPs hit with ransomware
  https://www.reddit.com/r/msp/comments/c2wls0/kaseya_weaponized_to_deliver_sodinokibi_ransomware/
  Brief: Talking about security…this is the Reddit thread that talks about the recent attacks using Webroot and Kaseya (all signs point to compromised accounts)

• MSP pays the ransom
  https://www.msspalert.com/cybersecurity-breaches-and-attacks/ransomware/msp-pays-150000-to-recover-data/
  Brief: UBX Cloud reports that one of their MSP customers paid $150,000 to get their customer’s data back

• Patch your Dells!
  https://www.digitaltrends.com/web/dell-supportassist-second-vulnerability/
  Brief: Update your Dell laptops ASAP as a new vulnerability has been found in their SupportAssist software