All channel partners and end customers must put IT security first if they want to prevent cyberattacks similar to the Kaseya breach going forward, industry leaders are saying.
“The Kaseya compromise wasn’t the first and won’t be the last,” said Derek Gabriel, cofounder/CEO of Ignite Solutions Group, a Honolulu-based MSP. “We can’t lay this at the feet of the tool vendors. We’re all complicit. We need customers to ask more questions about security from their service providers. We need service providers to ask and demand better from our vendors before we’ll see significant changes. And we all need to wake up to the fact that breaches will happen and become much more prepared.”
The industry is “loaded with legacy technical debt,” he said, with engineers working on products “that were first written when they were in grade school,” arguing that until changes are addressed there will continue to be “systemic risks.” read more here