Dan Kolansky

Specialized Insurance for MSPs and VARs?

Justin Reinmuth spent some time on the phone with me last week to teach us a little bit about Errors and Omissions (E & O) insurance. Managed Service Providers spend a great deal of their time working in high risk scenarios. We work with highly sensitive customer data, we hold their data in our data…

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Real-World Alerting Best Practices for MSPs

Our very own Chris Amori presented at Kaseya Connect 2012 by invitation from Kaseya. In true Amori fashion, Chris delivered a presentation that cuts to the heart of using Kaseya in every day life.

The best practices that he speaks about are based off of what we do at Network Depot as well as what we have learned helping partners and through various tech groups that we are involved in.

This 44 minute presentation is well worth a watch if you or your company uses Kaseya on any kind of a regular basis.

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Virtual Administrator’s June 2012 Patch Recommendations

We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of these patches and are releasing all of them. MS12-036 is rated Critical and is a vulnerability in Remote Desktop. After your next patch cycle completes you should follow up and make sure this is installed.  This is an RDP vulnerability and only machines with RDP…

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Virtual Administrator’s May 2012 Patch Recommendations

Virtual Administrator’s May 2012 Patch Recommendations We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of these patches and are releasing all of them. A number of MS Office vulnerabilities addressed this month.   If you have machines with Office Word 2007 deployed, installing MS12-029 is the top priority.  After that MS12-034 is the most concerning…

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Adobe releases Flash exploit fix for all platforms; Windows users already targeted

Flash has a new update out to fix a vulnerability which is reportedly already being exploited in the wild. Time to shine as MSPs and keep our customers up to date :). More information at the article below. http://tpt.to/a2sXDMn

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Chris Amori live at Kaseya Connect 2012

Our very own Chris Amori is going to be giving a presentation live at Kaseya connect! If you’re hanging out there, be sure to stop in, otherwise you can watch live on their ustream channel! http://www.kaseyaconnect.com/live/ Chris’ session starts at 3:15PM PST on Thursday. He will be presenting: Real-world Alerting Best Practices for MSPs You…

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