MSPs: Review 2021 Cybercrime Tactics, Prepare your 2022 Cyber Defenses

MSPs and their SMB clients took a beating in 2021 as cybercriminals evolved their strategies and extortion tactics to succeed with costly ransomware, tech supply-chain and other attacks. Recent research shows where businesses and their IT service providers failed to close gaps in defense strategies – gaps that led to unprecedented profits for cybercriminals and costly downtime and data loss for their victims.

The start of the year is an opportune moment to examine MSP successes and failures against the cybercrime tsunami of 2021. With planning for 2022 underway, it’s time to reflect, take stock, and adjust investments in cybersecurity people, process and technologies to do a better job — and build a more profitable MSP business — in 2022.

This webinar will review cybercriminal tactics and countermeasures from 2021 with an eye to helping MSPs improve their defensive odds in 2022. Attendees will learn:

• How recent ransomware attack methods and extortion strategies have evolved, and how sophisticated new supply-chain attacks are breaching unwary IT service providers and their clients.
• What the latest research data reveals about the cybersecurity gaps left exposed in current MSP and end-user cyber protection stacks
• What other MSP owners have learned from 2021’s trench warfare against cybercriminals, and how they are reprioritizing their investments for success defending their SMB clients in 2022.

Smart MSP leaders don’t repeat past mistakes, but learn from them and adapt. Take advantage of this review of 2021’s cybercrime environment with the help of cybersecurity experts, industry analysts armed with fresh research data, and your MSP peers to apply their lessons learned to your advantage in 2022.

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Speakers:
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.

Ed Amoroso – CEO of TAG Cyber
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.

Cramer Snuggs – MSP Owner, Cascade Technologies
A Lees-McRae College graduate, Cramer’s career started at a young age as a Computer Technician. At 25 years old, he established an IT Consulting company that today is doing business in 9 states across the United States, as well as customers in Latin America. With a strong background focusing in Networking and Cyber Security, he has leveraged the Acronis Cyber Protect platform to provide world class protection to all of his customers, both big and small. Utilizing private owned storage, based in Fremont, California, Cascade Technologies works with IT Partners across the United States and in Latin America to provide the resources needed for IT Firms to provide secure Disaster Recovery and Cyber Protection solutions to their customers as well.