Featured in this Issue:

Digital Transformation: MSPs Moving on Up...Fast

Managed service providers (MSPs) are third-party technology experts, hired to help scale, monitor, and update various aspects of an organization’s IT systems. As described by AutoO, “MSP roles have evolved over the past decade from simply maintaining legacy systems to taking responsibility for repairs and patches and delivering new software, cloud services, and specific expertise, such as data security services. Top full-service MSPs...allow companies to quickly expand by offering to host operations at a more robust and powerful external data center.”

Also in this Issue:

• IT Market Analysis— Performance: S&P 500 vs. IT
• Company Comparables
• Information Technology Transaction Volume
• M&A Activity in the IT Sector: Selected Transactions
• Recently Closed Transactions

In this Issue

• Calculating Risks and Rewards: Critical Cybersecurity Strategies for 2018, Part II
• IT Market Analysis— Performance: S&P 500 vs. IT
• Company Comparables
• Information Technology Transaction Volume
• M&A Activity in the IT Sector: Selected Transactions
• Recently Closed Transactions

Inside this report:

Calculating Risks and Rewards

Critical Cybersecurity Strategies for 2018, Part I

Major cybersecurity incidents can damage hard-earned reputations overnight, sometimes fatally affecting assets and a company’s entire future. Today’s headlines are ablaze with data breach and cyberattack stories. But with the risks come rewards for companies that tailor their security strategies to a rede nition of how we deploy cybersecurity in 2018.