Main Event Managed Services serves the insurance industry in the Tampa area. We are a specialty MSP that keeps your tech running and business compliant.
Tampa, FL
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"Your SunPass balance is overdue." Sound familiar? Skip the link, open the official SunPass site or app yourself, forward the text to 7726, then delete it. The same red flags show up in work email too. #ScamAwareness
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Quick check for your Microsoft 365 mailbox: open your inbox rules and look for anything you did not create, especially forwarding to outside addresses. Then ask IT to block auto-forwarding and alert on new rules. Ten minutes, big payoff.
#CybersecurityAwarenessMonth
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MFA fatigue is when an attacker repeats sign-in prompts until someone taps "Approve" to make them stop. The fix: turn on number matching, use passkeys where you can, and make "report, never approve" a team habit.
#CybersecurityAwarenessMonth
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You review your E&O coverage every year. When's the last time someone reviewed your actual IT security posture?
Annual risk assessments catch gaps before they become incidents.
Phishing's sneaky cousin doesn't need you to click a link. It just needs you to answer the phone and trust the wrong voice. Train your team to verify, not just react.
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A written incident response plan tells you what's supposed to happen.
A tabletop exercise tells you what will actually happen.
Here's what almost always breaks the first time an insurance agency tests theirs. 🧵
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Your employees' passwords might already be sitting on a dark web marketplace right now. Reused login from some other breach, forgotten account, doesn't matter how it got there. You won't know until someone monitors for it.
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The ransom demand isn't the expensive part. The 2-3 weeks of downtime rebuilding your systems after is. If your agency doesn't have a tested recovery plan, you're not backed up, you're just hoping.
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One phishing click. Attacker sits quiet in the inbox for weeks. Then inserts fake payment instructions into a real client conversation. Client trusts it because it looks like your agency. That's not just a cyber problem, that's an E&O claim.
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Quick compliance check: does your agency have a Written Information Security Program? Florida Rule 69O-128.032 requires it. Many agencies we talk to don't have one.
#InsuranceCompliance #TampaBay #CyberSecurity
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Cyber insurance applications aren't asking "do you have antivirus" anymore. MFA, EDR, tested backups, documented training. If you can't prove it, expect higher premiums or declined coverage.
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New video: shadow IT, the apps your employees are using for work that you don't know about. It starts with good intentions and ends as a security blind spot.
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A Tampa Bay small business got hit with ransomware last year (details anonymized). One phishing email. The backup drive was mapped with the same login as everything else, so it got encrypted too. Four days down. Isolated backups and MFA would have changed the outcome.
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Tampa Bay is growing fast, new businesses opening every week. But security habits aren't always keeping pace with the growth. Build it in on day one, it's a lot cheaper than fixing it after something goes wrong.
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Most ransomware starts with one click, then runs unrestricted. A five minute weekly habit: check what's actually installed on one machine. Compare it to what should be there. Flag anything unfamiliar. Small habit, real payoff.
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A real SLA has numbers in it. Response time by severity. Resolution time targets. What happens if they miss it. If your IT contract just says "prompt support," that's not an SLA, that's a hope.
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EOL software doesn't announce itself. One day it just stops getting security patches. Nothing looks different. That's the problem. If you don't know what's running end of life on your network right now, that's worth 10 minutes this week.
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October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Most businesses let it pass without changing anything. The ones who get value out of it treat it as an annual checkpoint, not just a hashtag. We'll be sharing practical tips Tampa Bay businesses can use over the next few weeks.
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What does one hour of complete downtime actually cost your business? Lost billable time, idle staff, missed calls, and the disruption of everyone stopping at once. Most small businesses have never run the actual numbers, and it's usually higher than they'd guess.
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