Webroot: MSPs Need To Take Layered Security Approach

“There’s no silver bullet. If any vendor stands up here and tells you, ‘Hey, we’ve got the perfect solution, we’ll protect you from everything—run as fast as you can in the other direction,’” Sarah Morgan, MSP channel account manager at Webroot, told MSPs at XChange 2019.

March 5, 2019, By O’Ryan Johnson

Webroot’s breakout session at XChange 2019 focused on the array of security threats—from phishing and DNS attacks to cryptojacking—and the layered approach MSPs need to take to protect their customers.

Sarah Morgan, MSP channel account manager at Webroot, the Broomfield, Colo.-based security vendor, told the room of MSPs that there is no “silver bullet” when it comes to protecting their customers’ networks.

“There’s no one end all, be all,” Morgan said. “There’s no silver bullet. If any vendor stands up here and tells you, ‘Hey, we’ve got the perfect solution, we’ll protect you from everything—run as fast as you can in the other direction. It’s simply not true. The threats are evolving so quickly and the sheer magnitude is impossible for any one vendor to keep up with them.”

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