Q&A

Who is the CEO of Kaseya?

Who is the CEO of Kaseya?

Fred Voccola (Jul 7, 2015–)
Kaseya/CEO
“When I joined Kaseya six years ago, I knew that this company had the potential to transform the way MSPs and SMBs ran their businesses,” said Fred Voccola, CEO of Kaseya.

Who owns Kaseya?

Insight Partners
Owned by Insight Partners, Kaseya is headquartered in Miami, Florida with branch locations across the US, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Since its founding in 2000, it has acquired 13 companies, which have in most cases continued to operate as their own brands (under the “a Kaseya company” tagline), including Unitrends.

What happened to Kaseya?

On Friday, July 2, 2021 one of the “largest criminal ransomware sprees in history” took place. Kaseya, a global IT infrastructure provider, had allegedly suffered an attack that utilized their Virtual System Administrator (VSA) software to deliver REvil (also known as Sodinokibi) ransomware via an auto update.

What kind of company is Kaseya?

Kaseya Limited designs and develops IT software. The Company offers an IT infrastructure management solutions for managed service providers and internal IT organizations. Kaseya serves customers worldwide.

How many companies use Kaseya?

The firm’s software is designed with enterprises and managed service providers (MSPs) in mind, and Kaseya says that over 40,000 organizations worldwide use at least one Kaseya software solution.

What does Kaseya VSA stand for?

Virtual System Administrator
Kaseya’s newest version of its remote monitoring and management (RMM) solution for managed service providers hit general availability on Tuesday. (VSA stands for Virtual System Administrator and BMS stands for Business Management Solution.)

What US companies use Kaseya?

Who uses Kaseya?

Company Website Country
Veristat veristat.com United States
QA Limited qa.com United Kingdom
Kaseya Limited kaseya.com United States
Eze Castle Integration, Inc. eci.com United States

Will Kaseya pay ransom?

As such, we are confirming in no uncertain terms that Kaseya did not pay a ransom – either directly or indirectly through a third party – to obtain the decryptor. Kaseya said that “the decryption tool has proven 100% effective at decrypting files that were fully encrypted in the attack”.

Is Kaseya safe to use?

Is it safe to use Kaseya now that it has been patched? YES—our Kaseya VSA environment is safe and secured for use.

How was Kaseya hacked?

It appears that attackers have carried out a supply chain ransomware attack by leveraging a vulnerability in Kaseya’s VSA software against multiple managed service providers (MSP) — and their customers.

Does Kaseya pay ransom?

The cybercrime outfit was believed to have initially demanded a payment of $70 million from Kaseya, before lowering the asking price to $50 million. As such, we are confirming in no uncertain terms that Kaseya did not pay a ransom – either directly or indirectly through a third party – to obtain the decryptor.

What is the purpose of Kaseya?

Kaseya is a software that provides a single framework for maintaining the IT policies of your company and helps you manage your remote endpoints. It gives you the ability to monitor the situation, provide patching updates to enhance the security of your IT infrastructure, and control endpoint systems remotely.