Managed Service Providers as Trojan Horses
Warnings to managed service providers to keep their IT protection up to date and to introduce new security guidelines are piling up. More recently, government regulators, including those in the UK and US, have reported an increase in malicious cyber activity explicitly targeting managed service providers. This is a development that will continue. A comment from Kay-Uwe-Wirtz, Regional Account Director Barracuda MSP. The reason for this is obvious, given that MSPs have direct access to their customers' networks and applications. Criminals who have successfully compromised an MSP using their infrastructure as a starting point are in the…
