EP059 - Straight Talking Cyber Security with Mostyn Thomas and Ian Luckett

<div style="font-weight: 400;"> <p><span data-contrast="auto">In the business world, especially within the IT & MSP space, there had been and there will always be attacks. It’s just a case of how they present themselves in the world. In this episode, we learn and understand how to react to them and most importantly, how to respond to them.</span><span data-ccp-props= "{"201341983":0,"335559740":259}"> </span></p> </div> <div style="font-weight: 400;"> <p><span data-contrast="auto">We kicked off the episode with Mostyn sharing with us who he is, what he does and who he helps. Mostyn is the CEO of Astrix and they specialise in cyber security for MSPs.</span><span data-ccp-props= "{"201341983":0,"335559740":259}"> </span></p> </div> <div style="font-weight: 400;"> <p><span data-contrast="auto">Mostyn and I started by discussing what he would personally say to MSPs who say that they know what they are doing when it comes to cyber threats or attacks. </span><span data-ccp-props= "{"201341983":0,"335559740":259}"> </span></p> </div> <div style="font-weight: 400;"> <p><span data-contrast="auto">Mostyn highlights that sometimes MSPs don’t actually know much about their clients and their services aren’t focused on what is missing and this is vulnerability discovery.</span><span data-ccp-props= "{"201341983":0,"335559740":259}"> </span></p> </div> <div style="font-weight: 400;"> <p><span data-contrast="auto">We then talked about the mindset around security. I asked Mostyn what are some of the things that he’s seeing at the moment that are challenging business owners, particularly the IT & MSP space. Mostyn reiterates that it is a little bit of that false sense of security. He then explained in this detail. </span><span data-ccp-props= "{"201341983":0,"335559740":259}"> </span></p> </div> <div style="font-weight: 400;"> <p><span data-contrast="auto">One tip from Mostyn was to focus on your email security.</span><span data-ccp-props= "{"201341983":0,"335559740":259}"> </span></p> </div> <div style="font-weight: 400;"> <p><sp