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MSPs And Security Offerings: What’s The Way Forward?

Scanning news headlines on any given day is likely to reveal yet another security breach, new cyber threats, or a recently discovered vulnerability in popular software. Previously, viruses could be attributed to single perpetrators, but current cyber security threats are led by highly experienced teams of cyber-criminals who are hell-bent on stealing company data.

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LEADERSHIP LESSONS

Automation Releases Us From Our False Sense Of SAP Security
When it comes to the protection of our most vital devices and systems, we could be forgiven for being lulled into a false sense of security. After all, the Apples and Microsofts of this world come to us, not even when there’s a problem, but just to check-in. To update us. To add that layer of reassurance even when our minds are elsewhere.
How After-Breach Cybersecurity Augments Prevention
Years ago, “good” IT security meant focusing on prevention: putting a firewall on the edge of your network, tossing in some antivirus for good measure, and moving on with your life. Today, things look a bit different.
Cloud Industry Trends: How The Pandemic Will Impact Business In 2021
As we enter 2021, much uncertainty remains. The lingering impact of the global pandemic continues to influence business, creating a downstream effect on how we move forward in our personal and professional lives.

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WHITE PAPERS

Show Your Clients That Their Online Presence Can Make Or Break Their Business
Your client’s online presence matters — and it matters in a big way. Resellers can help clients grow their businesses and simultaneously deepen their relationships by guiding them in the use of digital tools and explaining why they matter.

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CASE STUDIES

Solutions Provider Looks To Future With New Cutting-Edge POS Solutions
As a second-generation POS dealer, Delaware Valley Registers, Inc. (DVR) has had to make many adjustments to its business over the years to remain relevant. With the rapid pace of technological change in the retail and restaurant markets, resellers need a strategy to stay ahead of trends and provide their customers with the most powerful, secure, and cutting-edge solutions. For solutions providers who don’t, the result is typically them going out of business.

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FEATURED SUPPLIERS

Shift4 Payments
Shift4 Payments is a leading national provider of touch-screen point of sale (POS) systems and payment processing services. As pioneers of the “as a service” model, Shift4 Payments offers an unprecedented “free” POS program that allows the company’s sales partners to offer a full-featured POS system with no up-front costs.
RSPA

RSPA stands for Retail Solutions Providers Association. We are the only association dedicated to the retail technology industry.
Carbonite
Carbonite is a leading, single-source provider for comprehensive data protection for all the different types of data and systems in today’s IT environments. Carbonite’s complete Data Protection Platform includes advanced solutions for ensuring the integrity, survivability and accessibility of data for businesses of all sizes and in any industry.
APG Cash Drawer, LLC
For more than 30 years, APG Cash Drawer has been designing and delivering cash drawers with a variety of size, color, interface, and integration options. An APG cash drawer will provide years of smooth, trouble free service with virtually no downtime, no service required, and no headaches. Our cash drawers are so well constructed and so reliable that our customers install them and forget them - even in the most demanding environments.
The ASCII Group
The ASCII Group is a vibrant community of independent MSPs, VARS and solution providers in North America. The organization offers members leveraged purchasing programs, education and training, knowledge sharing among peers, discounts on business services, and more. Founded in 1984 by Alan Weinberger, ASCII is the oldest and largest group of independent IT solution providers, integrators and VARS in the world.
Webroot
Webroot delivers intelligent cybersecurity for endpoint, mobile and web to channel partners, consumers, businesses, and enterprises worldwide. Powered by its BrightCloud® collective threat intelligence network, Webroot protects the internet of everything. Our cloud-based threat detection, high performance, lightweight agents, and single, web-based point of control have changed the way businesses think about protecting mobile devices, PCs and servers. Named a ‘Visionary’ in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms, Webroot’s smarter approach to security is why companies including Cisco, F5 Networks, GateProtect, HP, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, Proofpoint, RSA and others choose our solutions for advanced threat protection for their security products and services.

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MULTI MEDIA

It’s Your Fault, So You Might As Well Get Paid For It

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FEATURED PRODUCTS

NetPRO® Interface Mobile Solution Ethernet Interface
APG’s NetPRO® interface for cash drawers are available in both wired and wireless configurations and will communicate with retailer’s mobile POS devices for cash drawer control. NetPRO® cash drawers have the ability to collect transaction data, supplying the information necessary to identify security issues and to validate cashier training. NetPRO® cash drawer access alert features can activate security cameras, time and date stamp security video recordings, and broadcast alert messages to a store manager’s mobile devices.

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EBOOKS

The Future Of Payments
The payments industry has faced a decade of change unlike any other. The growth and acceptance of the cloud, user's expectations that their B2B technology mirrors their B2C technology, and the ever-increasing risk surrounding more sophisticated hacks and breaches have all been something of a lead up to the biggest disruption the industry has ever seen: the ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Buyer’s Guide: DRaaS Features And Functionality
When a server stops responding, for whatever reason, the fastest way to resume service is to have a secondary environment ready to go. But traditionally, the redundant hardware, server space and additional human resources required have made this a prohibitive option. Most organizations simply cannot afford the costs and resources required to maintain secondary, off-site infrastructure. In the end, many IT departments simply live with the risk of potential business-ending outages.
Four Ways MSPs Can Fine-Tune Their Cybersecurity Go-To-Market Strategy
If you’re thinking about adding cybersecurity to your offering or want to change the way you offer your existing security services, now is the right time to stop and evaluate exactly how you should be taking it to market. SMBs today are operating in a very unique time where partially or completely remote workforces are the norm, cyberattacks are increasing in frequency and sophistication, and business owners are more focused than ever on remaining profitable.
Four Ways MSPs Can Fine-Tune Their Cybersecurity Go-To-Market Strategy
If you’re thinking about adding cybersecurity to your offering or want to change the way you offer your existing security services, now is the right time to stop and evaluate exactly how you should be taking it to market. SMBs today are operating in a very unique time where partially or completely remote workforces are the norm, cyberattacks are increasing in frequency and sophistication, and business owners are more focused than ever on remaining profitable.