Cybersecurity Predictions 2021: What’s Next for MSPs and SMBs After a Year That Changed Everything

The threat landscape transformed dramatically over the course of 2020. The COVID-19 global pandemic disrupted day-to-day operations across all phases of industry, requiring millions of workers to perform their jobs from their homes and other nontraditional sites using a range of digital communications and collaboration tools — a work-from-anywhere shift that wreaked havoc on organizations’ secure perimeters and created a host of new vulnerabilities for cybercriminals to identify and exploit. With more cyberattacks reported in the first six months of 2020 than in all of 2019, it’s no wonder that 86 percent of small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) cite cybersecurity among their top five organizational priorities — and given how quickly and how radically work paradigms are changing, it’s also no surprise that 79 percent of SMBs are concerned about their remote devices or remote employees being breached.

Managed service providers (MSPs) can play an essential role in keeping their SMB clients safe from cyberattacks both now and in the future — provided MSPs know what the future will bring. Join Channel Futures and ConnectWise for this comprehensive forecast of the year ahead, complete with expert predictions on how cybersecurity will evolve to address new threats and protect SMBs, their data and their employees in new ways. Topics include:

• How SMBs are shaping up around cybersecurity
• New and emerging trends poised to impact threat vectors
• New security opportunities that will redefine the MSP segment

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Speakers:

Jay Ryerse, CISSP
Vice President, Cybersecurity Initiatives
Jay Ryerse is the vice president of cybersecurity initiatives for ConnectWise. He is responsible for driving cybersecurity initiatives throughout the organization and the MSP market as well as providing education around managing cyber risk for ConnectWise partners and their clients.

Jay brings more than 25 years of experience in cybersecurity, information technology and security solutions to businesses of all sizes to ConnectWise. He began his current role in November 2019 following ConnectWise’s acquisition of Continuum, where he served as chief technology officer of security products. In this role, Jay was responsible for driving education and awareness of cybersecurity issues and products within Continuum’s partner community.

Drew Sanford
Senior Director of Global SOC Operations for ConnectWise
Drew Sanford is the Senior Director of Global SOC Operations for ConnectWise. He is responsible for managing the security services strategy and all associated global operations including oversight of the ConnectWise SOC.

Drew brings more than 25 years of sales, engineering and operations experience to ConnectWise. Prior to his current role, Drew served in a number of leadership positions, including Director of Technical Sales for Continuum, acquired by ConnectWise in 2019,and co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of CARVIR, which was acquired by Continuum in June of 2018. He previously served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer of IT That Works and co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of CloudAny, a Detroit-based Desktop-as-a-Service company.

Matt Lee
Director of Technology and Security for Iconic IT
Matt provides overall leadership and strategic direction for information technology environments throughout Iconic IT on behalf of its numerous customers (internal and external) and partners. A technology veteran with expertise in virtualization, platform as a service (PaaS), cloud security, and technology transformations, Mr. Lee has been tasked with developing the Iconic IT roadmap and leading Iconic IT’s technology initiatives while working closely with customers and partners.

Mr. Lee creates mutually valuable partnerships by participating actively on major partners’ advisory boards, as well as service delivery councils. He was the recipient of the Wichita Business Journal’s 2016 CIO award. Mr. Lee has been a featured presenter for industry events such as Continuums Navigate and Watchguard Partner Summit. He participated on the Green Clouds Partner Summit 2019 Pac. Under Matt’s technological direction Choose Networks was ranked in the top 50% in the prestigious ChannelPro 2019 501 list.

Wes Spencer
CISO of Perch Security

Wes Spencer is a nationally recognized technology innovator and cybersecurity expert. He has served as a senior executive and advisor from Fortune 500 to venture capitalist backed startups and was awarded the 2020 Cybersecurity Educator of the Year by the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards. He is a dynamic and frequently requested professional conference speaker.

Wes has served on multiple advisory committees with distinguished organizations such as American Banker, Sentinel One, and FS-ISAC. He currently serves on the Department of Homeland Security AIS advisory committee and is active in the STIX working group to continue to drive automation standards in threat intelligence sharing.

By profession, Wes is the CISO of Perch Security. Wes is the senior executive focusing on internal and external cybersecurity for Perch. Wes provides thought leadership externally to organizations around the world in the area of threat intelligence and threat information sharing.