Cybersecurity Critical Focus for MSPs

Steve Meek is CEO and founder of The Fulcrum Group, an MSP. He said when it comes to cybersecurity, there’s so much focus on the protection aspect, and not as much about what happens before and after.

“Don’t spend all your time with protect,” he said. “Make sure you’re going out to the edges to provide that true cybersecurity that organizations need. Just depending on tools won’t get you there.”

Someone in an MSP has to be mindful of threat intelligence 24/7, Meek said.

“An MSP needs to have a response team to say. ‘OK, this just came out, what are we going to do about it?” he said. “We’ve all got our tools that are deployed at the majority of our clients, but there may be a brand-new threat and there may not be a fix for it … so somebody has to own that within your organization. It’s unplanned, unassigned labor unless you have someone designated, watching threat intelligence, acting on that threat intelligence, and coming up with solutions across your organizations using whatever your stack happens to be.”