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Cybercrime is increasing every single day, but you’ve heard that all before. So, why do we keep pushing the same narrative month after month? Because the threats are continuing to increase, and your IT Staff are dealing with escalating challenges with no time and little resources. Partnering with an MSP that is also an MSSP can take the extra stress out of the hands of your internal IT Staff allowing them to get back to their daily routine and allowing your organization to run smoothly. 

What is Ransomware?

Ransomware: you hear this term so much that it’s probably lost the scare factor we all associated with it at first. However, Ransomware becomes a bigger and bigger threat every day. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) defines Ransomware as a malicious software that encrypts a computer system’s data and demands payment to restore access. NIST recommends a few key things to help prevent an attack or to help recover from one: use antivirus software, keep all computers fully patched, use security products, only allow authorized applications to run on computers, and restrict use of personally owned devices on your organization’s network. You’ve also probably heard all this advice before, so why do MSSP’s continue to talk about it and make it out to be such a huge deal? Because it can cripple your organization within seconds, and it will force you to pay.

Patching, vulnerabilities, remediation; the cornerstones of Pioneer-360’s newest PVR Program. Finding the vulnerabilities within your network is of the upmost importance, but it’s such a time-consuming process that most organizations end up letting things slip through the cracks and end up missing vital weak spots. Once the vulnerabilities are found, the tedious, extensive, and difficult process of fixing them starts. Pioneer-360’s PVR Program will find unresolved vulnerabilities and remediate them, allowing your current IT Staff to get back to innovation and keeping your organization performing at its peak.

It’s Spring 2022, the war in Ukraine is raging and we see it on the news every day.  Your favorite news anchor will inform you of the casualties, the loss of equipment, the amazing and heartbreaking human side of the story. The anchor might even mention there is a new type of warfare also taking place, Cyberwarfare. Sounds insidious for sure but no one knows what it really means, and besides that it’s so far away it can’t affect me here, right? 

Pioneer-360’s Remote Partner Program just keeps getting better. Our Remote Partner Program compliments your internal IT with a perfectly balanced mix of technicians and tools and now with our newly added Zero Trust, our highly skilled NOC and SOC teams of engineers have the perfect toolset for any financial organization. By adding Zero Trust, we have completed our award-winning Security Suite, that is designed for and catered to compliant-heavy industries. But what is Zero Trust, what does it do, and how can it take your network security to the next level?

Security & Compliance

Those two words typically intimidate most Internal IT, MSP’s, and even MSSP’s for the simple fact of how labor intensive it is to achieve a balance between the two. Unfortunately, there are no single appliances or software packages that will achieve a totally secure environment and to meet compliance, it requires a lot of dedication and documentation.

Pioneer-360 is proud to announce the achievement of our SOC2 Type 2 Certification – a process that our employees have devoted their blood, sweat, and tears to over the course of the last two years. A SOC 2 Type 2 Certification guarantees a third-party auditor has verified that Pioneer-360 follows best security practices in not only infrastructure but processes as well. This company-wide achievement is huge for our MSSP (Managed Security Service Provider) status, adding to our robust security and compliance guarantees.

Is Ransomware Near You?

You hear about large-scale organizations across the globe dealing with ransomware attacks more and more, but it can still feel like that kind of threat is oceans away from your back door. Unfortunately, cybercrime threats are everywhere and no organization is exempt from becoming a potential target. Ransomware is now the primary cybercrime threat for businesses, and the trends only predict that cybercrime will reach new heights in the coming year.