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To Protect and Secure: Selling Cybersecurity as a Service

Auvik AVP of product management Patrick Albert talks with Tayler Feigl, Channel Development Manager, APAC at Datto to discuss key findings in Datto’s annual State of the Channel Ransomware Report, the result of interviewing 100,000 small to mid-sized business (SMBs) around the globe. You’ll hear what your MSP peers are doing to prepare, protect, and recover against ransomware, and investigate how you can use these findings to sell cybersecurity as part of your managed services offering.

Auvik Use Case #12: Fast Client Onboarding

Onboarding new clients can be a very time-consuming process for MSPs. To get the lay of the land, you typically need to make the trip to the client site, crawl through switch closets, perform a site survey, and complete many more manual tasks. But even after that investment of time and resources, sometimes you don’t get the full picture.

What Could Your MSP Do With a Power-Up in 2019?

Imagine if your MSP business had an elite group of advisors—made up of some of the brightest minds in the business—standing by to give you advice. Decades of insight and expertise on tap, there to safely guide you around pitfalls and share success strategies that have worked for them. Imagine the kind of boost that might give you.

5 Security Best Practices for Network Devices

It’s a sad but common truth that not all network devices are built with security in mind. Some ship with default credentials like admin / admin, with SNMP set to public, or with operating systems that haven’t been updated in years. As with any other device, it’s important to practice good hygiene when managing network devices. Good hygiene means things like keeping firmware up to date, changing credentials away from the defaults, and refreshing end-of-life hardware and software.

Building A-Team Alliances to Extend Your MSP Capabilities

How do you handle more in your MSP without adding to your business overhead? By forming strategic relationships with a complementary mix of specialist providers. Your business network can help your MSP focus on core competencies while helping you expand your service capabilities: in hours, expertise, geographic reach, and more.

Setting Up Your First Client in Auvik

Setting up a client in Auvik is easy and only takes a few minutes. Watch as we walk you through three simple steps to kickstart your Auvik trial—from signing up for your trial to creating your first client site in Auvik to deploying your first Auvik collector. Then, give it a try and get ready to discover more about your client’s network than you’ve ever seen before.

These Financial Controls Will Help Keep Your MSP Running Smoothly

When you’re a small managed service provider (MSP), the owner is the main salesperson, primary technician, head bookkeeper, and office manager. As your company grows, you begin to delegate tasks. Often, the first task to be delegated is bookkeeping because you loathe it. Once you find a bookkeeper to handle your day-to-day accounting tasks, it becomes very tempting to hand it all over.

MSP Network Basics: What is SNMP?

SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is vital for managing networks. Without it, network management tools can't identify devices, monitor network performance, or keep track of changes to the network. If you want to learn more about this important protocol, start with this SNMP primer featuring Steve Petryschuk, Auvik's director of system engineering.