Somers, WI March 26, 2021 - Recently, Felicia King, QPC Security’s President & Virtual CISO, was invited to provide comment on the SC Magazine article "Companies don’t bother to patch. Should MSPs cut them out of decision process?".

The focus of the article was how businesses continue to fall victim to exploits and other damaging attacks because they do not have multi-factor authentication, access control, patch management and other essential network security elements. In response, many feel that third-party partners, such as MSPs and MSSPs, need to push for client contracts that authorize them to take decisive mitigation steps in critical situations without permission. When asked what an MSP or MSSP, that is accountable and responsible for managed detection and response, patching and network-layer security, should include in their contract, King said “it's absolutely critical that you specify in your statement of work… [that] you are going to define the criticality [of bugs], and you are going to define when patches go out because ultimately it's your liability.” Read more…