Security

What Is Endpoint Security?

Endpoint security protects laptops, desktops, servers, mobile devices, and other network-connected endpoints from cyber threats. It combines protection, monitoring, patching, access controls, and response capabilities to improve cybersecurity and reduce risk.

What Recent Ransomware Campaigns Teach MSPs About Supply Chain Security

Recent ransomware campaigns have shown that attackers increasingly target trusted software and service providers to reach multiple organizations. Learn the biggest supply chain security lessons for MSPs and how stronger vendor governance, patch management, and RMM practices can help reduce risk.

What Is Malware? Types, How It Spreads, and How to Protect Your Devices

Malware is one of the most common cybersecurity threats facing businesses today. Learn what malware is, how it spreads, the different types of malware, and the security best practices that help prevent infections and strengthen cyber resilience.

Microsoft Copilot Security Risks MSPs Should Know Before Enabling It

Microsoft 365 Copilot is becoming a major security discussion as AI gains access to organizational data, permissions, and business workflows. This guide explains the risks, governance requirements, and security best practices MSPs should understand before deploying Copilot for clients.

June 2026 Patch Tuesday: Why MSPs Need a Faster Patch Management Process

June 2026 Patch Tuesday was one of Microsoft's largest security update releases in recent years, creating a significant patching workload for IT teams and MSPs. This guide explains what happened, why it matters, and how MSPs can improve patch deployment and compliance reporting.

MSP Supply Chain Security: Why Third-Party Risk Is Now a Core MSP Cybersecurity Concern

MSPs increasingly rely on vendors, tools, and integrations that can introduce cybersecurity risk. This blog explains why supply chain security matters, how vendor risk assessments work, and what MSPs should consider when evaluating RMM security.

What Is Phishing?

Phishing is a social engineering attack that tricks people into sharing sensitive information, clicking malicious links, downloading malware, or sending money. Understanding how phishing works helps users and IT teams reduce risk, detect threats earlier, and respond faster.

Vulnerability Remediation Workflow for MSPs

This guide explains a vulnerability remediation workflow for MSPs and IT teams. It helps improve response time and security using Level.

Remote Access Audit Logs Explained: How MSPs Improve Security, Compliance, and Operational Visibility

Learn how remote access audit logs help MSPs strengthen security, improve compliance readiness, and maintain operational visibility across client environments. This guide covers audit logging best practices, RMM security considerations, automation strategies, and scalable monitoring workflows.‍

Shadow IT Discovery and Prevention for IT Teams: How to Improve Security and Operational Visibility

Learn how IT teams and MSPs can discover and prevent shadow IT to improve operational visibility, strengthen cybersecurity, and reduce compliance risks. This guide covers shadow IT risks, monitoring strategies, governance best practices, and scalable prevention workflows.

How Businesses Detect Cyber Threats Early and Reduce Security Risk

Early threat detection is essential for reducing cybersecurity risk in modern organizations. This guide explains how businesses monitor endpoints, analyze security events, and use automation to identify attacks before they spread.

Cybersecurity Awareness: What It Is and Why It Matters

Cybersecurity awareness helps employees recognize and avoid cyber threats. This guide explains how IT teams and MSPs support it using modern security tools.

Closing Visibility Gaps in Modern IT Environments

Modern IT environments are complex and distributed. Observability gaps create blind spots that slow troubleshooting and increase risk. Here is how to identify and close them.

The Financial Impact of Inefficient IT

Inefficient IT is a compounding tax on the business. It shows up as downtime, technical debt, and productivity loss that spread across teams. This breakdown explains the real cost categories and how IT leaders can reduce financial leakage.

Quantum-Safe Encryption

Quantum computing will eventually break much of today’s encryption. That future is not as far away as it sounds. For MSPs and internal IT teams, the transition to quantum-safe encryption is becoming a long-term infrastructure project that affects security, compliance, vendors, and endpoint management.

AI-Powered Cyberattacks: What MSPs Should Monitor in 2026

AI is helping attackers make phishing, social engineering, and cyberattacks faster and more convincing. This guide explains the AI-related threats MSPs should monitor and how endpoint visibility and automation help security teams keep up.

Confidential Computing and Data Privacy

Confidential computing and data privacy address the same goal from different angles. This article explains how confidential computing protects data while it is being processed and how it supports broader data privacy responsibilities as organizations handle sensitive information across cloud platforms, endpoints, and modern analytics environments.

How Ransomware Changed from 2025 to 2026 and What Organizations Must Do

Ransomware in 2026 is more automated, more fragmented, and more focused on data extortion than ever before. This guide compares key trends from 2025 and outlines what IT teams can do to stay ahead.

Data Security for MSPs and Modern IT Teams

A practical guide to data security for MSPs and IT teams, covering fundamentals, client expectations, industry trends, and real world budget benchmarks. Learn how security shapes growth, trust, and long term success.

Why DMARC Is Getting So Much Attention Right Now

DMARC is no longer a niche email setting. This guide explains what changed, why the industry is paying attention, and how IT teams and MSPs can roll it out without breaking business email.

Public Sector Disaster Recovery: What’s Changing

Disaster recovery in the public sector is shifting from a compliance exercise to a resilience strategy. This guide explores recent challenges, industry changes, and what government IT teams should prepare for over the next few years.

What Is Deduplication in IT and Why It Matters for RMM in 2026

Deduplication is a critical technology for modern IT teams and MSPs looking to scale backups, reduce storage costs, and improve performance. This guide explains how deduplication works and why it plays a growing role in RMM-driven environments in 2026.‍

Why Complete IT Visibility Is Harder Than It Sounds

Complete IT visibility is more than discovering devices. Learn why cloud services, SaaS applications, identities, software, and constantly changing environments create visibility gaps, and how organizations can build a more accurate view of their IT infrastructure through continuous asset management.

Building a Scalable Device Policy Strategy: Global Policies, Provisioning, and Policy Based Patching

This blog explains how IT teams and MSPs can build a scalable device policy strategy using global policies, automated provisioning, and policy based patching. It highlights how Level centralizes these workflows to reduce manual work and improve consistency across every endpoint.

Vulnerability Assessment Tools for MSPs, How to Strengthen Security and Reduce Risk

This blog explains how vulnerability assessment tools help MSPs detect weaknesses, prevent ransomware, and stay compliant. It also shows how combining scanners with Level's automation platform enables faster remediation and stronger security across client environments.

Strengthening Cybersecurity in Retail, How IT Teams Can Protect POS, Endpoints, and Customer Data

Retailers face rapidly growing cybersecurity challenges as store environments become more connected and data driven. Strong security practices for POS systems, endpoints, and customer data help IT teams maintain safe and resilient operations.

Public Sector Security and Compliance, What IT Teams Must Prioritize in 2026

Most important security and compliance priorities public sector IT teams need to manage in 2026. Rising threats, expanding digital services, and stricter regulations are reshaping government cybersecurity strategies.

Why SOCaaS and CaaS Are Now Core to Modern IT

Cybersecurity threats and compliance demands are rising. This guide explains why SOC as a Service (SOCaaS) and Compliance as a Service (CaaS) are now must-have solutions for IT teams and MSPs, and how RMM platforms like Level make them work.

Cybersecurity in Manufacturing: Protecting Critical Systems

This blog explains the cybersecurity risks manufacturers face across OT systems, endpoints, and supply chain data and how centralized IT management helps reduce exposure. It also shows how Level strengthens protection with monitoring, remote management, patch control, and automation.

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): A Practical Guide for IT Teams and MSPs

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) is now essential for MSPs and IT teams. It secures data, simplifies access management, and ensures compliance at scale.

2026 Cybersecurity Priorities to Strengthen Defense

Ransomware disruption, SaaS sprawl, supply chain compromise, and AI-driven fraud define cybersecurity in 2026.

Why Compliance (HIPAA, GDPR, CMMC) Matters for MSPs

MSPs are on the frontlines of compliance. Whether it’s HIPAA, GDPR, or CMMC, clients expect providers to meet strict security and data protection requirements.

Endpoint Security for MSPs: Understanding EDR and XDR

Modern endpoint security requires more than traditional antivirus, especially as ransomware and fileless threats increasingly target SMBs. EDR and XDR solutions provide behavioral detection, automated isolation, and fast incident response, particularly when combined with an RMM platform for operational control.

How to Secure IoT Devices: 12 Effective Strategies to Implement

Learn how to secure IoT devices and explore 12 effective strategies. Discover how Level can help you automate IoT management and security.

Identity and Access Management (IAM): Strengthening the Core of IT Security

Identity and Access Management (IAM) is the cornerstone of secure IT operations, helping MSPs and IT teams control access, enforce compliance, and protect every user interaction. Discover how integrating IAM with Level’s RMM platform enhances visibility, automation, and endpoint security across your entire environment.

What Is Data Corruption? (+ Tips to Prevent Corrupted Files)

Learn what data corruption is and explore the steps you can take to prevent it. Discover how Level's RMM software can help you avoid data corruption.

Secure Remote Access Solutions, Built for IT Teams and MSPs

5 Best Secure Remote Access Solutions for IT Teams. 1. Level 2. TeamViewer 3. AnyDesk 4. ScreenConnect 5. RemotePC

EDRs distrust RMMs, and that's ok!

Your Level agents were blocked? Be grateful that you have a good EDR and tune it!

Level Achieves SOC 2 Certification

A Milestone in Our Commitment to Security and Trust underscoring our dedication to maintaining the highest standards of data protection and reliability in our RMM services.

Addressing the Critical libwebp Vulnerability: Our Steps at Level

Last week, a concerning zero-day vulnerability was disclosed in libwebp - tagged as CVE-2023-5129. This flaw in the library used for web image processing had the potential to wreak havoc across many Linux distributions.

Domain Controller Health Check with Powershell

If you're managing Active Directory (AD), then the health of your Domain Controllers (DCs) is crucial. The DC is at the heart of user authentication, authorization, and network services. If DCs can't sync, authentication might fail, leaving users locked out or allowing unauthorized access.

Using PowerShell to Monitor Admin Groups for Rogue Accounts

The moment of confusion when an admin group is modified and some old/strange/unknown/misplaced account is spotted.

Monitoring Windows Shadow Copies

Microsoft Windows has a great feature called Shadow Copies (or Restore Points in desktop OS versions) that performs local point-in-time snapshots of disks.

Remediation of CVE-2023-23397 - Outlook SMB Vulnerability

On 14 March 2023 Microsoft released a security fix for CVE-2023-23397. This vulnerability is a particularly bad one because the exploit requires no user interaction to trigger!

An Alternative to SSH for Server Access Management

For IT and software teams, granting and managing server access is a major sticking point. Of course, team members need access to servers in order to do their jobs (install software, build deploy pipelines, find production bugs).

How to Secure RMMs

On Friday, a popular IT tool called Kaseya VSA was hacked.

Small Business Cybersecurity: The Complete 2025 Guide to Protecting Your Business

A complete 2025 guide to small business cybersecurity. Learn how to protect your digital assets with IT inventory management, firewalls, VPNs, RMM automation, employee training, SOC 2 certification, and more.

BYOD Security: Risks, Policies, and Device Management Best Practices

The growing BYOD trend in workplaces offers benefits like employee satisfaction and hardware cost savings but poses significant security challenges, necessitating clear IT policies, effective monitoring, and robust security software.