Tomorrow's jobs require impressing a bot with quick thinking

NEW YORK (Reuters) - When Andrew Chamberlain started in his job four years ago in the research group at jobs website Glassdoor.com, he worked in a programming language called Stata. Then it was R. Then Python. Then PySpark.

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World of Warcraft goes offline to Czech forest

PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czech web developer Vojtech Ruzicka ditched his laptop and urban Prague lifestyle and decamped to the forest dressed as a blue-faced shaman for a "World of Warcraft" reenactment game.

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Man Who Hacked Jail Systems to Release His Friend Early Gets 7-Years in Prison

Remember a young hacker who hacked jail systems in an attempt to release his prison inmate early? Well, that hacker will now be joining his inmate behind bars. Konrads Voits of Ypsilanti, Michigan, has been sentenced to seven years and three months in prison for attempting to hack the Washtenaw County Jail computer system and modifying prison records to get his friend released early. <!--

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Singapore airport may use facial recognition systems to find late passengers

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Ever been delayed on a flight because of straggling fellow passengers?

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Alibaba cannot block cryptocurrency firm from using similar name: U.S. judge

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday rejected Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd's bid for a preliminary injunction to block the Dubai cryptocurrency firm Alibabacoin Foundation from using the Alibaba name.

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Mexico central bank says possible cyber attack targets payment systems

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's central bank said on Monday it was investigating an apparent attempt to hack into the payment systems of at least three local financial institutions, but no funds were stolen.

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WhatsApp co-founder to quit in loss of privacy advocate at Facebook

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The co-founder of WhatsApp, a messaging service owned by Facebook Inc with more than 1 billion daily users, said on Monday he was leaving the company, in a loss of one of the strongest advocates for privacy inside Facebook.

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Facebook unit WhatsApp's co-founder Jan Koum to quit

(Reuters) - WhatsApp Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Jan Koum is planning to leave the Facebook unit, according to his post on the social media network on Monday.

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U.S. jury convicts former Autonomy executive of fraud over HP deal

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. jury on Monday convicted the former chief financial officer of British software company Autonomy of wire fraud and other crimes related to claims by the government that he inflated the firm's value before its sale to Hewlett Packard, a Justice Department spokesman said.

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Disney to create live sports, entertainment shows for Twitter

(Reuters) - Walt Disney Co will create live sports, news and entertainment programing specifically for Twitter Inc's social media platform, the companies said in a statement on Monday.

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Panasonic unit settles U.S. criminal, civil charges of bribery

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A unit of Panasonic Corp agreed to pay about $280 million on Monday in a deal with the U.S. government to resolve criminal and civil charges that the company falsified its financial records to conceal payments to sales agents in China and other parts of Asia.

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Disney to create live sports, entertainment content for Twitter

(Reuters) - Walt Disney Co will create live sports, news and entertainment programing specifically for Twitter Inc's social media platform, the companies said in a statement on Monday.

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Investors look to Apple's cash, services as iPhone sales seen stalling

(Reuters) - Apple Inc's multi-hundred billion cash stockpile and stalling growth in services such as iCloud present an opportunity and a concern that some investors hope will be addressed in the company's quarterly earnings report on Tuesday.

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Don’t just add the Security “S” to your Managed Services

Expanding and putting more focus on your current security offerings is a great way to find new business opportunities.

Adding the “S” is the easy part; just ask any managed service provider that views security as just a “checkbox” and offers one of the cheaper or RMM-integrated security offerings without giving much thought to customers’ security needs or total cost of ownership. As a managed service provider though, you are in the business of taking on risk for your customers and security is one of the best ways to reduce and mitigate this risk and add value for your customers and for your business.

2017 was a noteworthy year for cyber security, with major incidents such as WannaCry, Not Petya, Spectre and Meltdown making worldwide news. As a result, security is now top of mind for your customers. The opportunity to expand and focus on building out your security services offering is greater than ever. According to Kaseya’s recent 2018 MSP Benchmark Survey, 33% of respondents cited security as the top challenge or need, while all others were less than 10%. The survey also pointed out that security was the top revenue driver and most popular service for growth. As we know, with challenge and need comes opportunity

So exactly which areas are ripe for opportunity?

Office365

As the adoption of Office 365 and other cloud services continue to grow it is important to encourage customers to think about how they are protecting their data and other Office 365 assets (i.e: email, One Drive & Sharepoint). According to the Trend Micro Cloud App Security 2017 Report, we detected and protected against over 3.4 million threats within our customers Office365 environments, and that was after everything had been scanned by the native security features and deemed safe. Customers in regulated verticals moving to Office 365 not only have to worry about threats but also meeting compliance, so adding additional layers of security is a great way to increase your value and mitigate your customer’s risk.

Public Cloud

Public cloud security is another area of growth. Security in the public cloud is a shared responsibility and a lot of customers forget this piece, so it’s up to you to help them remember. As a managed service provider, you may already be in the business of helping your customers design, architect & migrate workloads to the public cloud. While the public cloud brings a lot of cost savings, it also brings a lot of challenges and risks. If you aren’t taking security in public cloud infrastructure in to consideration, it’s time to start!

Endpoint

As mentioned above, 2017 was a big year for cyber security, which makes this a great time to re-evaluate your endpoint security offerings while you’ve got your customers’ attention. The endpoint and the user are one of the most easily attacked vectors as humans tend to be the weakest link in the security chain.  It is important to have a robust security offering to provide maximum protection for your customers and reduce or eliminate your costs related to remediating security related incidents. Things you should consider:  Does my current endpoint security offering include encryption, data loss prevention, application control and URL filtering? Is my current endpoint security offering cloud-based? Does my current endpoint offering leverage the latest detection technologies such as machine learning? The more robust of an offering, the more services you can build around that offering.

When you’re ready to do more than just add the “S” to your managed services, come visit us at http://www.trendmicro.com/msp and learn more about how we can help you transform your business as you increase value to your customers.

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