How MSPs Can Use Automation and AI to Bridge the Cybersecurity Talent Gap

Businesses of every size are struggling to find and retain good cybersecurity talent.

How can managed service providers (MSPs) protect their clients’ sensitive data and uptime against surging cyberthreats like ransomware and tech supply chain attacks without enough skilled help?

One potential source of relief is to automate your way out of the problem by carefully exploiting the power of automation, integration and artificial intelligence in the MSP operations center and in your clients’ endpoints. When you cannot find or afford to hire skilled techs, the next best approach is to arm your existing staff with tools that will make them more efficient and capable.

This webinar will examine how to MSPs can leverage the power of more automated, integrated, and AI-enabled cyber protection tools to bridge the cybersecurity talent gap. Attendees will learn:

• The latest trends and research in the cyberthreat landscape, including ransomware, tech supply-chain attacks, phishing, and widespread vulnerabilities like Log4j
• How the current storm of cyberthreats has contributed to the cybersecurity talent shortage, and why MSPs and their SMB clients particularly struggle to hire and retain good cybersecurity professionals
• How clever use of automation, integration and AI in the MSP operations center and in client endpoints can help MSPs bridge the cybersecurity talent gap.

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Speakers: 

Candid Wüest,
VP of Cyber Protection Research, Acronis

Candid Wüest is the VP of Cyber Protection Research at Acronis, the Swiss-Singaporean cyber protection company, where he researches on new threat trends and comprehensive protection methods. Previously he worked for more than sixteen years as the tech lead for Symantec’s global security response team. Wüest has published a book and various whitepapers, and featured as a security expert in top-tier media outlets. He is a frequent speaker at security-related conferences including RSAC and AREA41. Wüest is an advisor for the Swiss federal government on cyber risks. He learned coding and the English language on a Commodore 64. He holds a master of computer science from the ETH Zurich and various certifications and patents.

Ed Amoroso,
Founder and CEO, TAG-Cyber Research

Dr. Ed Amoroso is currently Chief Executive Officer of TAG Cyber LLC, a global research and advisory company that supports enterprise cyber security teams and commercial security vendors around the world. Ed recently retired from AT&T after thirty-one years of service, beginning in Unix security R&D at Bell Labs and culminating as Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer of AT&T from 2004 to 2016. Ed has served as Research Professor at the Tandon School of Engineering at NYU since 2017. He has also been Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the Stevens Institute of Technology for the past thirty years, where he has introduced nearly two thousand graduate students to the topic of information security. Ed also serves the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University as a senior advisor. He is author of six books on cyber security and dozens of major research and technical papers and articles in peer-reviewed and major publications.

James Slaby,
Director of Cyber Protection, Acronis

James R. Slaby is the Director of Cyber Protection at Acronis, where he evangelizes cybersecurity and data protection solutions for business. Previously, Slaby was an industry analyst covering cybersecurity, cloud computing and networking at Forrester Research, HFS Research, Yankee Group and The Info Pro. With over 300 published tech research reports, he has been quoted in The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, and countless tech publications. Slaby has also held solutions, vertical, product and campaign marketing roles at tech security and networking vendors including Sonus, Acme Packet, Bay Networks and Motorola.

Jesus Escolar
CEO & Founder of EXELERYS

CEO of EXELERYS, an emerging start-up fighting cybersecurity threats through multiple consolidated services and solutions portfolio across EMEA. He has intervened in multiple events including SecParis, Cloud Native Foundation, Cloud Expo Europe, ISACA, InfoSec, CNCF Paris, CNCF London, UbuCon Europe, UbuCon France, SWWARP, to provide a holistic view on the actual and future view on threat intelligence, where problems and solutions for known and unknown issues were addressed and discussed.

Prior to founding EXELERYS, Jesus was working actively with security vendors worldwide providing enablement and education across the different security issues the corporations faced, working closely with different cross-department teams for years building active solutions for their enterprise customers. EXELERYS in pioneering the integration of security operations in several niche ecosystems like Industrial CyberSecurity (ICS), Cloud Native Applications, DevSecOps with CI/CD security lifecycles, and Serverless with multi-vendor integrations and open security standards.