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Host Karl sits with Acronis's Righter Kunkel at the Cyberfit Summit 2022! 

Righter is a seasoned leader with responsibilities for strategy, design, implementation, and execution of corporate customer success vision anchored with financial growth.

Righter has over 20 years of leadership experience in the public sector/commercial education and consulting industry. Righter has a deep working knowledge of operating a global for-profit partner, employee, and customer training business to include the internal business functions of development, certification, enablement, sales, services, and operations.

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Host Karl speaks with Anne Hall.

Anne Hall is the owner and founder of ITagree – The Agreement Lifeguard, providing legal agreements-as-a-service globally.

Anne recognized just how much IT companies struggled with customer agreements so she decided to put her 25 years’ experience as an IT lawyer in New Zealand to use in an innovative way, establishing ITagree in 2016.

ITagree provides access to the specific types of legal agreements needed by IT companies, quickly and cost-effectively, in order to help them to reduce business risk. ITagree’s agreements have been developed and refined to suit the needs of IT companies in North America, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and several European countries.  

ITagree was founded by Anne Hall who has 25 years of experience as a specialist IT lawyer in New Zealand.

Anne wanted to provide IT companies with access to IT legal agreements without delays or big legal fees. Now we have customers all around the world and the ITagree team continues to be committed to saving time and costs on legal agreements, so you can focus on growing your business.

ITagree is a global leader for MSPs and IT companies in helping them to reduce unnecessary business risks.

ITAgree has you covered if you provide:
Managed Services
Microsoft 365 or Azure
Private Cloud Hosting
Professional Services
Third Party SaaS
Master Services Agreements
And more! For Example
Hardware-as-a-Service
AWS Services Supply
Unified Communications
SaaS, including for Microsoft add-on

Resources and Links:

www.itagree.com

https://itagree.com/blogs/news

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Topic 1: Could it actually be possible that the SolarWinds hack was “good” for their business?

https://www.scmagazine.com/feature/incident-response/why-solarwinds-just-may-be-one-of-the-most-secure-software-companies-in-the-tech-universe

No one would argue that being the victim of “the largest and most damaging security breach in US history” is a good thing. But as a result of the hack, SolarWinds took unprecedented steps to fundamentally reengineer their approach to security and dev-ops … and they are telling a surprisingly compelling story about how this makes them the most secure system in the industry. What’s more, it seems like customers are listening … and buying. Do you buy it?

Topic 2: Headline: Twitter is bad at data security and privacy.

Conclusion: No duh.

https://www.protocol.com/policy/mudge-twitter-whistleblower-hearing

The Twitter whistleblower testified in congress yesterday … and he made the “shocking” accusation that Twitter doesn’t have (and never has had) sufficient control systems for data protection. Thank you, Captain Obvious. This brings up a few questions: 1) does any social media company have sufficient data controls (no); 2) is there any appetite to make social media companies accountable for actual privacy / security (no); and 3) why does our society accept the presence of a tech platform that is “too big to control” and not simply turn it off if it can’t be made secure?

Topic 3: Because Security needs another piece of jargon: Beware Sock Puppet phishing

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-now-use-sock-puppets-for-more-realistic-phishing-attacks/

Or would you rather call the attack 'multi-persona impersonation' (MPI)? That’s the name used by researchers at Proofpoint.

Basically, this is an orchestrated attack where the bad guys control multiple email accounts and email back and forth with the target in the middle of the cc: string. The idea is to provide (fake) social proof. 

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Topic 1:  Colloquium: What do we think the permanent changes are to “the workplace” after the pandemic.

What percentage will go back? Is hybrid permanent forever? Has the concept of office changed forever from a technology perspective? If yes, was this something we should have seen coming and covid just sped it up? What’s next that we might not have seen coming?

Topic 2: Declaration for the Future of the Internet

Splinternet - China and Russia

https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/28/23046652/declaration-for-the-future-of-the-internet-eu-us-regulation-commitment-announced

And the actual 3-page declaration:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Declaration-for-the-Future-for-the-Internet_Launch-Event-Signing-Version_FINAL.pdf 

Topic 3: Big Tech salaries revealed
Ryan

https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-engineer-developer-salary-google-amazon-microsoft-ibm-apple-intel-2021-6 

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Our Community includes ALL of the best-selling books on managed services in all available formats, plus free training, members-only programs, and the best business training available to managed service providers anywhere.

Plus, we have weekly live members-only Zoom calls. 

The average member saves more than 200% of their membership cost each year. 

We are totally dedicated to YOUR success. 

Just because you're in business for yourself doesn't mean you have to go it alone.

Join us today at SmallBizThoughts.org

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