Annual MSP 501 Identifies Industry’s Best-in-Class Businesses

Fidelis, Inc. has been named as one of the world’s premier managed service providers in the prestigious 2021 Channel Futures MSP 501 rankings. Fidelis ranked #151 of the world’s top 501 MSPs, #22 of 53 in the Pacific states, and the #3 MSP in Washington State.

Despite the rising popularity of other authentication methods, passwords remain an integral part of most businesses' day-to-day operations. A number of measures remain in place to keep passwords secure: stipulations for password length and composition, mandatory periodic resets, and of course, restrictions against sharing them.

Cyberthreats are among the most pervasive dangers to businesses today. As they can strike at any moment, you need to be able to monitor your network and address incidents quickly to minimize risk to your operations. This is exactly why many organizations need a full-fledged security operations center (SOC) as part of your overall cybersecurity program.

LastPass is a password manager app that allows you to protect your online accounts much more effectively. It acts as a virtual vault for passwords to accounts saved in LastPass. When you log in to an account, the app can automatically input your login information, not only speeding up the process but also eliminating the need to memorize the password to that account.

As a rule, you need to set up unique and hard-to-crack passwords for each of your online accounts. But considering how the average user has 90 online accounts, following this practice means keeping track of 90 or more complex passwords — more than enough to give anyone a mental overload!

LastPass password manager addresses this very problem by acting as a virtual vault for your passwords.

If you’re concerned about your business’s cybersecurity, these statistics will likely worry you:

A 2021 report revealed that 86.2% of the businesses surveyed have fallen victim to a cyberattack.
Hacking incidents happened once every 1.12 seconds in 2020.
More than 92 million new malware samples have been found as of June 2021. Note that 137.7 million new samples were found in 2020.
Fifty percent of business computers that were infected with malware were subsequently reinfected the same year, says another 2021 report.

Microsoft 365 has come a long way in recent years, becoming one of the most important productivity suites in the business world. Although the traditional Microsoft Office desktop applications remain as important tools that most businesses use, Microsoft’s cloud-based applications and services are starting to change the way that businesses get work done.

Remote Desktop Services (RDS) is an umbrella term referring to a range of features available in Windows that allow users to remotely access computers and virtual machines.

RDS consists of two main components: the server-side Remote Desktop Session Host and the Remote Desktop application that run on the end user’s device used to connect to the remote system.

Microsoft Teams is a versatile communication tool that is available for free on its own and is included in various Microsoft 365 packages. It’s largely known as a video conferencing platform, but it can also be used for chatting and sharing files. Teams became especially popular during the coronavirus pandemic as one of the go-to applications, besides Zoom and Google Meet, for remote team meetings.

Over the past few years, artificial intelligence (AI) has been helping transform the way businesses operate. For instance, the technology is helping businesses identify which customers are most likely to buy a product or service from them. It can also efficiently diagnose diseases and reduce errors that medical professionals make.