{"id":7817,"date":"2013-06-17T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2699913"},"modified":"2013-06-17T16:08:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T16:08:00","slug":"msps-must-practice-what-they-preach-especially-with-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/msps-must-practice-what-they-preach-especially-with-security\/","title":{"rendered":"MSPs Must Practice What They Preach \u2013 Especially with Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Precautions to safeguard client data &#038; infrastructure is an MSPs responsibility-this extends beyond client&#8217;s sphere of access to MSP employees &#038; consultants. MSPs must employ some degree of security to cover their own access, not just that of their clients.<br \/>\nA man walks into the doctor\u2019s office. He hasn\u2019t been feeling well. A virus has been floating around the office and the man feels he\u2019s caught it.<br \/>\nDoctor walks in, smiles and picks up the chart. He starts examining the man and as he writes a prescription advises he keeps sanitary and wash his hands several times a day.<br \/>\nDo you trust this doctor.especially after he prescribes vigorous hand-washing, but forgot to wash his own before poking and prodding during the exam.<br \/>\nObviously this doctor loses credibility. This moral is a lesson that MSPs (managed service providers) must heed. MSPs frequently tell their clients to treat data in a secure fashion lest it compromised-by hack, by carelessness or by lax standards. It is only natural to expect your MSP to abide by certain security practices to prevent client data from becoming exposed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2699913\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Precautions to safeguard client data &amp; infrastructure is an MSPs responsibility-this extends beyond client&#8217;s sphere of access to MSP employees &amp; consultants. MSPs must employ some degree of security to cover their own access, not just that of their clients.<br \/>\nA man walks into the doctor&rsquo;s office. He hasn&rsquo;t been feeling well. A virus has been floating around the office and the man feels he&rsquo;s caught it.<br \/>\nDoctor walks in, smiles and picks up the chart. He starts examining the man and as he writes a prescription advises he keeps sanitary and wash his hands several times a day.<br \/>\nDo you trust this doctor.especially after he prescribes vigorous hand-washing, but forgot to wash his own before poking and prodding during the exam.<br \/>\nObviously this doctor loses credibility. This moral is a lesson that MSPs (managed service providers) must heed. MSPs frequently tell their clients to treat data in a secure fashion lest it compromised-by hack, by carelessness or by lax standards. It is only natural to expect your MSP to abide by certain security practices to prevent client data from becoming exposed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2699913\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}