Typical winter events swirl around us—Hollywoodians start to pat each other on the back at award shows, the Super Bowl teams are set (Kansas City versus San Francisco)

Platforms should allow for flexibility as business needs change

The CES 2020 show flooded our attention spans last week with interesting new products and updates to a slew of existing smart home systems. And some silly stuff, as usual, like the Charmin RollBot toilet paper delivery drone.

In the IT community, it is often said that the best defense against a cyber-attack is to “think like a hacker.” This tactic may work when an attack is directed at network infrastructure, and the goal is to protect technical information from exfiltration or exploitation.

Welcome back to the real world. If you’ve had a leisure holiday full of rest and relaxation, please don’t tell that to those who handled everything while you were getting your toenails buffed and painted.

Good for us: we’ve reached the end of the month, the year, and the decade. But the fun isn’t ending in IoT, it’s just beginning.

Channel pros need to address the latest threat vectors facing customers, including cloud, IoT, mobile devices and—gasp—MSPs themselves.