In the UK in recent weeks, critical national infrastructure – which includes energy supply, water supply, transportation, health and telecommunications – have been warned by the NCSC about specific vulnerabilities known to be exploited by Russian hackers. Based on experience in Ukraine, energy and transport are most likely to be in the cross-hairs if anything were to happen.
All the signs are pointing to this being a big year for managed service providers (MSPs) and the security industry, with the prospect of tighter regulations and more consolidation moves across the industry to ensure the channel has access to the right tools and skills.
Headlines were generated last week by the government revealing that it was considering updating regulations around supply chain security to include MSPs, with the threat of up to £17m fines being handed out to those that failed to show responsibility around protecting data.
Even before that announcement, the industry was stepping up its efforts to increase security levels. Datto is one an example of what that looks like in practice, with its recent move for threat detection and response player Infocyte.
Tim Weller, CEO of Datto, has been consistently talking about the need for MSPs to increase their security levels and repeated his call for the industry to do more on the topic.
“If MSPs aren’t already hearing that from their SMEs, if the government doesn’t mandate it, competition will. You will lose your clients to MSPs that show better in the security arena,” he added. “You’re in the security business.”
He said that there were several implications of accepting a responsibility for personal and client security: “The first one is get your own house in order. The answer to that is not to run away from your tool sets and worry about your vendors.
“You have to have software tools, including RMM [remote monitoring and management], which has obviously generated some concern for people, [but] it’s an important security tool. You just need to choose vendors that are very secure.”
Weller said that there is also a need to evolve a proposition, which was why Datto added detection and recovery to its armoury with the Infocyte buy.
“In the security business, we talk about protect, detect and respond. There are these stages, more frontlines, but let’s prevent the bad things from happening,” he said, adding that the acquired technology would be integrated into its RMM platform.
Weller has banged the drum for the MSP community throughout the pandemic, arguing that they have and continue to…
Because corporations and governments rely on computers and the internet to run everything from the electric grid, healthcare, and water systems, computer security is extremely important to all of us.
It is increasingly being breached: numerous security hacks just this past month include the Colonial Pipeline security breach and the JBS Foods ransomware attacks where hackers took over the organization’s computer systems and demanded payment to unlock and release it back to the owners. The White House is strongly urging companies to take ransomware threats seriously and update their systems to protect themselves. Yet these attacks continue to threaten all of us on an almost daily basis.
Columbia Engineering researchers who are leading experts in computer security recently presented two major papers that make computer systems more secure. This new research, which has zero to little effect on system performance, is already being used to create a processor for the Air Force Research Lab.
“Memory safety has been a problem for nearly 40 years and numerous solutions have been proposed. We believe that memory safety continues to be a problem because it does not distribute the burden in a fair manner among software engineers and end-users,” said Simha Sethumadhavan, associate professor of computer science, whose research focuses on how computer architecture can be used to improve computer security. “With these two papers, we believe we have found the right balance of burdens.”
Computer security has been a long-standing issue, with many proposed systems workable in research settings but not in real-world situations. Sethumadhavan believes that the way to secure a system is to first start with the hardware and then, in turn, the software.
The urgency of his research is underscored by the fact that he has significant grants from both the Office of Naval Research and the U.S. Airforce, and his PhD students have received a Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship to create practical security solutions.
Sethumadhavan’s group noticed that most security issues occur within a computer’s memory, specifically pointers. Pointers are used for…
Pune, Feb. 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The global edtech and smart classroom market is set to gain traction from the increasing adoption of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). This information is given by Fortune Business Insights™ in a new study, titled, “EdTech and Smart Classroom Market Size, Share & COVID-19 Impact Analysis, By Instructional Aids (Smart Classroom, and Mobile Learning), By Hardware (Interactive Projectors, Interactive whiteboards, and Others), By Educational Tools (Admission Automation Tools, Administration Tools (ERP & CRM), Learning Management Tools, Alumni Management Tools, Placement Management Tools, Library Management Tools), By Technology (Gamification, Analytics, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Advanced Technology (AI, AR, VR, Robotics, and Blockchain) and Others), By End-User (Higher Education, K-12, and Kindergarten), and Regional Forecast, 2020-2027.” The study further mentions that the market size was USD 74.33 billion in 2019 and is projected to reach USD 251.78 billion by 2027, exhibiting a CAGR of 16.6% during the forecast period.
COVID-19 Pandemic: Growing R&D Activities to Affect Industry Positively
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