Security Hygiene Basics for MSPs: Onboarding, Automation and MFA
Summary
A Huntress article outlines cybersecurity hygiene practices for MSPs and clients, emphasizing documented onboarding, automated monitoring and alerts, security ownership, and deploying MFA.
Key points
- Use documented scoping and onboarding processes to identify clients’ security needs and avoid relying on memory.
- Automate security log monitoring and analysis, with actionable alerts and information collected across agents and systems.
- Assign a security owner with technical expertise, leadership access, and responsibility for accountability and operational change.
- The article advocates deploying MFA across all clients, noting that webinar respondents reported varied adoption.
- The article says a quarter or fewer of webinar respondents’ clients had a basic security hygiene checklist.
Article Details
- Topic
- Security hygiene practices for managed service providers and their customers, including onboarding, automation, team responsibilities, patching, antivirus, and MFA.
People
Jan BroucinekSecurity Operations Manager at Network People; recommends server security basics such as applying patches and running antivirus.Jerrel HowlandCTO of Mytech Partners; advises building security awareness and maintaining security practices.Tim WeberVP of Channel Growth at Cyber 74; encourages consistent practice in building security capabilities.