Technology Solutions Manager Cindy Fetters of C Spire Business (formerly TekLinks) is asked a lot of questions from business leaders looking for smart IT advice.

The question she most often hears is, "Does my small business really need a security risk assessment?" Check out Cindy's answer:

During our internal penetration test engagements, we regularly come into contact with multifunction printers that are still using the default administrative login credentials. Obviously, using default credentials is never a good idea and I'd like to show how we can often pivot from these seemingly innocent multifunction devices and ultimately obtain total compromise of an environment.

Our team thinks TekLinks is pretty awesome, and the Birmingham Business Journal agrees! Big thanks to BBJ for ranking TekLinks the No. 6 Best Place to Work in Birmingham among  companies with 100 to 249 employees.

TekLinks' Director of Marketing & Partner Development Haley Montgomery has once again been named to CRN's Women of the Channel list. Haley was previously named to the list in 2017.

ChannelE2E has announced their top 100 managed services providers (MSP), ranking C Spire Business (formerly TekLinks) No. 1 in companies based in North America for the healthcare industry, and No. 2 in the world.

The ChannelE2E list recognized globally the top 100 managed services providers in healthcare, government, financial services, manufacturing, and additional vertical markets. Overall, C Spire ranked No. 3 on the Top 100 Vertical Market MSPs list. 

There's another threat in town for the Healthcare sector - newly identified hacker group Orangeworm is on the lurk. Orangeworm is deploying the Kwampirs backdoor in a targeted attack campaign against healthcare and related industries. Kwampirs is a backdoor trojan used to gain remote access to compromised computers.