We are thrilled to announce our next webinar on April 21, 2023 at 11:00 am PST. This will be the second part to our “Cybersecurity Considerations” webinar series. We’ll take an even deeper dive in the evolving threat landscape, regulatory requirement changes, and cyber insurance. We hope you can join our panel discussion with industry experts to learn how you can secure your business. Sign up for our upcoming cybersecurity webinar here.
In this blog post, we will review our past webinar and look ahead at what’s to come — from the speakers to the key benefits of their organizations. We will also discuss why attending this event is so important and stress the importance of cyber security in today’s high threat landscape.
We are grateful to our speakers who joined us for our first webinar and we are excited to welcome them back for our second event. Learn more about them and their organizations:
Alan McDonald: President and CEO, AllConnected
Alan is responsible for providing the strategic direction, leadership, and vision for AllConnected. He focuses AllConnected’s team on delivering managed network services, as well as private cloud and business continuity solutions.
Richard Pressler: Chief Technical Officer, AllConnected
Richard influences AllConnected’s best practices and architecture. He also identifies relevant education and technology investments necessary to ensure our clients can become more efficient, competitive, and secure.
Josh Barker: Senior Account Executive and Advisor, TechRug
Josh Barker is the Senior Account Executive and Advisor at the Technology Risk Underwriting Group. Josh holds insurance licenses for both Property & Casualty and Life & Health and is currently in the process of securing his designation as a Certified Risk Manager (CRM).
TechRug provides complete, customized cyber insurance and cyber solutions for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and their clients. They go beyond simple insurance policies — they offer a full risk management team that takes the time to truly understand your business and your unique needs. TechRug’s services also include legal templates/consultations, live insurance experts, cyber insurance education, risk management resources, and more.
Interested in learning more about the five most common factors that could impact your company’s insurability? Review our blog post where we checked in with Josh Barker on this important topic.
John McNelly: Technology Consultant, Ingram Micro / Cisco Systems
John McNelly has over 20 years of experience in enterprise technology with a special emphasis on hybrid cloud solutions, application modernization and security, and solution design and engineering from top vendors such as Cisco, Dell, EMC, VMware, and VCE.
Cisco has been our premier partner for over 20 years. Whether your business utilizes Cisco DataCenter, Cisco Security, or Cisco Enterprise Networking solutions, our team of IT experts can help your business with everything from implementation to management. We can support a variety of Cisco solutions, including Duo (a multi-factor authentication solution), AMP (malware protection), and Meraki (a “cloud-managed IT” solution). Cisco has one of the largest and most cohesive threat detection strategies, which is why we value their partnership and trust their solutions for our clients.
It’s no surprise that the cybersecurity landscape in 2023 continues to evolve and become more sophisticated. With the rise in artificial intelligence and the increase in remote work environments, businesses of all sizes are prime targets for hackers. Plus, with new strands of malware, ransomware, and social engineering attempts, it has become even more difficult to determine what’s real and what’s worth protecting.
Additionally, our current cybersecurity landscape has made it difficult for businesses to find cyber insurance. Unlike regular business insurance, cyber insurance is newer to the insurance market. As providers gather more data, they are able to determine benchmarks for cybersecurity insurance offerings (similar to a credit score) and regulate insurance costs from there. There are a variety of factors that could affect your company’s ability to implement cyber insurance — from a weak cybersecurity posture to a lack of regular data backups. CSO provides additional insight into cyber insurance in this recent article.
Gone are the days of specific, targeted attacks — now there are risks and threats coming from multiple angles, which changes the way your business implements security solutions and insurance. We hope you will join our upcoming webinar on April 21, 2023 at 11:00 am PST to learn even more about this critical topic. You can register here. You can also review the first webinar on our YouTube channel. As always, if you have any questions or would like to discuss your organization’s security posture more in depth, feel free to reach out to us directly. We look forward to helping you secure and protect your organization.