It’s the little things that give you away. This past week brought us a diverse set of incidents. Unfortunately, several of the high-profile compromises could have been easily prevented. From database misconfigurations to Phishing exploits, this week was the busiest week in disclosure since the week of March 19th.
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Greetings from Fabulous Las Vegas! If you are at the Channel Partners Expo, stop by booth #3073 to say hi to the team! We hope you were able to check out our session yesterday: Massive Data Breaches: A Love Story? If you are interested in getting the presentation, let us know and we’ll send it to you!
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Pay attention to this one! 6+ years later, Federal appeals court rules that data breach resulting in the theft of PII, even though the PII had not yet been used in any illegal activity, was harm enough to allow lawsuits to proceed against the company whose systems were compromised!
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There is a storm brewing over at Facebook. I will reserve summary and comments for next week – after Zuckerberg testifies. I will say however, the simple fact is that you did not/do not need to be a data analytics firm to harvest data and profile millions (potentially billions) of Facebook users. More to come…
Read More It was a very active week in breach. Aside from the volume of events, it’s important to note the diversity of industries impacted is impressive. Both traditional credential-based compromises and advanced persistent threats were equally damaging. Additional takeaways from this week include:
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ID Agent started small — a handful of Partners, a few team members, and a solution we really believed in. Since then, a few things have changed. We have a larger team now, and a lot more Partners. But, we still provide credential monitoring solutions that are helping MSPs all over the world grow. The first part of 2018 has come with a lot of excitement for ID Agent, and we know much of that excitement is thanks to our Partners. There are a few developments that we want to share in this article, and we hope to show our Partners and potential Partners how much of an impact our solutions can have on their businesses.
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When you’re working hard to identify and address your customers’ security compromises, you probably wish there was a way to do so faster, easier, and more accurately. With ID Agent’s new API (application programming interface) for its Dark Web ID™ solution, this wish becomes a reality.
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A large-scale data breach has the power to cripple any organization, including your customers’ companies. Unfortunately, these data breaches usually start with compromised credentials sold to the highest bidder on the dark web. Right now, all that stands in the way of your customers and a massive, costly breach is a few passwords — unless you’re offering dark web monitoring as a service.
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8 months ago, I had never heard the terms MSP, MRR, or even Managed Service Provider… and now I can’t image my life outside of this space. This is my story and love letter to the MSP space and the people who make up the community, and the channel we are committed to serve.
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MSPs should read this, then enroll themselves and every customer in SpotLight ID NOW Chances are, you’ve come across cleverly-crafted ads on sites like CNN.com, Facebook, Yahoo and others that say something like, “Use this site to find out anything… about anyone.” If you are like most good citizens, you probably passed up on the opportunity to use one of these sites to dox, or to search for and publish private or identifying information about an individual on the Internet, typically with malicious intent. Good for you!
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