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MSPs and SMBs: how are you protect yourselves and your clients?
Small and Midsize Businesses (SMB) often lack the resources and knowledge that large enterprises can leverage to help protect themselves. How can the SMBs in general and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) learn how to protect themselves and become aware of affordable enterprise-grade cybersecurity concepts and solutions?
COVID-19 has transformed how companies operate today. With 50 percent to 90 percent of staff working remotely, organizations are now looking at remote work as the new working style in the future. While working remoting has its benefits, one of the biggest challenges it presents is cybersecurity problems. Businesses face remote cybersecurity issues like protection of data, networking challenges, and issues with cloud computing.
OpenVPN conducted a study recently which showcased that 90 percent of IT professionals believed that remote workers are not secure. Because every remote worker works on a different network, which may not be secured, employee security issues are a major concern. Working from home issues involve working from public networks and personal devices, which possess a multitude of security vulnerabilities.
The introduction of cloud-native applications and containers changed the way of how people structure and provision applications. Deploying and configuring physical servers at every edge location and trying to balance the load is just not feasible for dynamic loads and hybrid infrastructures. The solution to this problem is microservices.
In addition to supporting dynamic scalability, the move from monolithic applications to microservices avoids the bottlenecks of a central database and supports portability and code reuse. It also provides additional benefits of easier automation, integration in CI/CD pipeline, observability, and high availability, although microservices security and management may create certain new challenges.