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SMBs are Prime Targets for Cyber Crime – Learn Steps for Being ‘Cyber Smart’ from NCSA
National Cyber Security Awareness Month (#NCSAM) is designed to heighten awareness about the vital importance security plays for individuals and businesses. According to the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), “our homes, societal...
Cyber Crime is Big Business: Educate Your Clients on the Threat and How to Protect Their Data
The internet is fertile ground for cyber criminals. Crimes can be committed from thousands of miles away, the payoff is good – in data or cold, hard cash – and, most companies can’t keep up with ever-evolving threats. While most of your...
Small Business Cybersecurity: How Resellers and Customers Can Avoid Another Maginot Line
Military experts are familiar with the term “Maginot Line” and how what was intended to provide security caused Germans to become more innovative in their attack techniques. Thus, “blitzkrieg” was developed, and France fell in six weeks....
Cybersecurity and Rise of the Virtual CISO
Hopefully, it doesn’t take a lot for you to convince your customers that they need to pay attention to cybersecurity. As we mentioned in our previous post, in just one quarter in 2018, 765 million people were impacted by data breaches....
Creating Robust Cyber Security Offerings: The “Missing Link” for Many VARs
Technology is evolving at unprecedented speeds. From Big Data to IoT, companies are struggling to understand the evolution of data and how it provides competitive advantage. According to recent analysis, the size of our “Digital Universe”...
Managed Services in 2019: AI and Cybersecurity Will be Top Points of Focus
As we continue to look at predictions for 2019, the EDGE360 editorial team reached out to David McGillivray, Founder and President of InterGrid and a regular contributor to EGDE360 on managed services and issues surrounding it. InterGrid...
Managed Services in 2018: How Cloud Changed The Game for VARs
As a part of our series on 2018 Year in Review, the EDGE360 editorial team looked at how VARs took a managed services approach to grow new opportunities. We had the opportunity to sit down with David McGillivray, founder and President of...
Creating a Managed Services Practice: Cobbling a Practice Together Can Create Problems
The skills, efforts, money and other resources it takes to build a successful Managed Services Practice from the ground up can be overwhelming. Everyone underestimates the resources it will actually take to build or buy one, because the...
Creating a Managed Services Practice: Build, Buy, Cobble or Partner?
Predictions have the Managed Services market reaching $258 billion by 2022. Value-added resellers (VARs) that offer Managed Services create recurring revenue models with higher gross profit margins. Multiyear contracts stabilize revenue...
Managed Services Market on Upward Trajectory, Because it Offers Flexibility, Scalability and Optimization
Some estimates have the managed services market projected to reach $258 billion by 2022 as more and more companies and organizations continue to have limited IT budgets alongside expanding scalability requirements. In a recent article in...
The Pros and Cons of the IT Managed Services Business
The term “Managed Services” has come to mean anything from the basic offering of a resource assigned to an account, to a cloud offering that supports a specific business (i.e., electronic medical records), to the management of expended...
JetStream 2.0 by InterGrid
We're excited to announce the launch of JetStream 2.0 by InterGrid, and our new and refreshed website is live. JetStream 2.0 brings a fresh approach to the reselling of Managed Services. With JetStream 2.0 there are multiple Managed...