SUMMARY KEYWORDS business, customers, cloud, people, home, teams, moving, calling, technology, company, point, cybersecurity, manage, computers, ways, malecon, helping, talk, vpn, add SPEAKERS Jess Coburn, Malik Khan Jess Coburn 00:17 Welcome to another episode of cyber side chats. Today businesses across the globe are dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. In these first few episodes focus on what business leaders owners and CEOs can do to not just survive but thrive amid crisis. In this episode of cyber side chat I sit down on Malecon CEO point click analogy. So one of my closest friends, we discussed the importance of giving back during difficult times and how competitors can come together for mutual benefit through competition. I'm your host Jess Coburn, CEO of manage cloud it and cybersecurity company applied innovations Hi, welcome to another episode of cyber side chats today I have my very good friend Malecon with Bhima leak CEO point click technologies. Blake, can you tell us a little about point click and yourself. Malik Khan 01:19 So point click is a managed services provider focused on cloud services. So, you know, everything we do is all managed cloud, whether we managing infrastructure in our data centers in Raleigh, or in our primary choice with cloud hyperscale, which is Azure. So you know, we provide cybersecurity making sure customers have backup and disaster recovery 24 seven support of the applications making sure that performing so this is our primary business model today. And not only that, helping customers move infrastructure from on premises to the cloud, and then making sure that they're not compromising any of their, you know, security to customer service. And just feeling like you know, they own the data that's sitting in the cloud. So we try to bridge that gap of making sure that the customer is in a very stable environment in the cloud. But then they also working with a very stable partner that knows how to manage the information and keep them up and running. Jess Coburn 02:16 Thanks, Millie. I appreciate the introduction. So one thing some people know they know me and you is they'll know that we're good friends, and we have been the best of friends for almost a decade now, if not more than, and a lot of people say gee, Jess, you run a managed cloud it cybersecurity company and Moloch runs a managed cloud it and cybersecurity company. Aren't you guys cooperate? Aren't you guys? competition? And we like to refer to it as Co Op petition. Correct? Malik Khan 02:44 Absolutely. Jess Coburn 02:46 Because we find we find we find that we, I mean, we've helped each other tremendously over the last number of years. Malik Khan 02:54 Yeah, I think it's been, you know, I was telling my wife like, and I wonder where my business was. With the headliner meet, Jess, just because at the time, you are much bigger company I was, you know, tiny, I'm still tiny. But I learned so much from from you the way you operate your business. Older approaches were a little bit different. So I was able to learn how to take some of the things you were doing and adapted into mine. And then you also learn some of the ways that we were using certain tool sets and certain practices that you were also able to incorporate in your business. So, you know, it kind of at a point became where we're not competing with each other. But we're trying to actually help accelerate and grow our businesses as much as we can by sharing the information and the knowledge base that we have within the industry. Jess Coburn 03:43 Really, I don't think you give yourself enough credit. I've learned just as much if not more from you, as you've...
