With the managed security services market projected to surpass $40 billion by 2022, it’s no surprise that the number of MSPs joining the race to add that extra “S” is soaring as well. As these channel partners set their sights on the MSSP market, WatchGuard’s director of product management, Himanshu Verma, has some useful guidance for navigating a few significant hurdles … [Read more...]

The threat landscape is changing more rapidly than ever. As new attack techniques emerge and old ones come back into fashion, the security industry works tirelessly to stay one step ahead in the endless game of cyber cat-and-mouse. This dynamic puts significant pressure on Value Added Resellers (VARs) and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to offer security products and services … [Read more...]

“Security deception” is a relatively new term for an old idea in the security industry; tricking attackers into thinking they’ve accessed something restricted or important so that the defenders can monitor their behavior. Other, older technologies like sandboxing and honeypots do the same thing in different ways, so the terms can get muddled together. WatchGuard Sr. Security … [Read more...]

If you aren’t familiar with cryptocurrency and haven’t already read our cryptocurrency primer, now would be a good time to do so. In the primer, we go over the basics of cryptocurrency using Bitcoin, the first and most famous coin, as an example. Bitcoin was the first true cryptocurrency, and it is still to this day the most valuable one both in terms of price per coin and … [Read more...]