Layered security: High-speed internet changed everything

Back in my day a good AV product was all you needed to protect a network. Patches were mostly bug fixes, and the internet was relatively safe.

High Speed Internet changed everything. Back in the days of dial up, the bandwidth did not exist to provide a cyber-criminal with decent access to your network. The connection wasn’t 24/7 either. Users connected to the internet, did what was needed, and logged off so someone could use the phone line to make a call.

By David Ianetta

Change the settings for Automatic Updates

Microsoft did a wonderful service for "regular people" to get their operating system updated with very little fuss.  The original Windows Update web site, with a shortcut icon on the Start menu was great.  Over the years it grew ...

Managed Antivirus Only Deployments - Setup

Managed Antivirus (or MAV) can be deployed through GFI MAX to clients that want only antivirus.  By following the information below you can use just the antivirus for your clients and be charged only for antivirus.
 ATTENTION!  If the system is not set correctly beforehand additional charges may apply.  Read our article "Naked" MAV Setup regarding what NOT to turn on so you are not charged anything additional.  Once the system is set correctly, simply follow the steps below to create a MAV only deployment.

Blocking software usage with GFI MAX

Some software is bad news. Nothing good can come of it, and neither you nor your customers want it on their systems. I'm sure you knew you could use Asset Tracking and software license groups to detect unauthorized installations of banned software - but did you know that you could prevent them from ever being used in the first place?

(T3): MAV-Only Deployment

MAV can be deployed to computers that you don’t do any type of monitoring on.  By deploying in this manner, the only charge incurred for this installation is the MAV cost.

(T3): Deploying Managed Anti-Virus

Deploying Managed Anti-Virus

Updated by David Ianetta

MSP RMM’s Managed Antivirus feature allows Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to make an antivirus security solution available to clients without an annual renewal contract. All management of the application, from deployment to threat remediation, is completed within the MSP RMM dashboard console.