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Managed service providers (MSPs) must be prepared to defend their customers against advanced threats and, to do so, they need to keep track of different data sources by deploying solutions that are designed to improve their customers’ security posture through effective detection and proactive responses to potential incidents.

Ransomware is still present and growing across the threat landscape, to the extent that some organizations now include the cost of a ransomware attack in their annual budgets. Data from our Internet Security Report - Q4 2022 reveals that ransomware detections on endpoints rose by an alarming 627% in 2022 compared to the previous year. While ransomware does not discriminate by industry type, the report clearly shows the manufacturing sector was the most affected during 2022.

Despite the security controls that OpenAI has imposed on ChatGPT to try to make it a secure space capable of assisting users in a variety of tasks, cybercriminals have managed to exploit this technology for malicious purposes. Recent research has shown that this generative artificial intelligence is capable of creating a new branch of polymorphic malware with relative ease. The main risk lies in ChatGPT's versatility, which allows it to create code that could easily be used for malware.

Zero trust is not a new cybersecurity concept, yet it seems everywhere lately. In case you’re unfamiliar with zero trust, it is defined as an approach to security that assumes no implicit trust between users, devices, or networks as a baseline, and once a user has been verified as legitimate, authorized, and trustworthy, access is allowed. Zero trust has been so effective as a cybersecurity strategy that the U.S.