From MSP Influencer: Meet the creators helping inform, educate, and connect the MSP industry. The 2026 ForzaDash MSPInfluencer Media Impact Award winners are recognized for producing relevant content, sharing valuable insights, amplifying industry voices, and creating meaningful conversations across the MSP community. This recognition honors the creators and platforms influencing the MSP industry through valuable […]

A recent string of cyber incidents has forced local governments in multiple states to shut down networks, interrupt public-facing services, and shift emergency operations to backup processes. For MSPs supporting municipalities, this is a reminder that ransomware recovery is not just an IT exercise — it can become a public-safety obligation. The incidents are not […]

Managing compliance for one client is a process. Managing it for twenty, fifty, or one hundred clients is an operational challenge. Policies need to be assigned, reviewed, updated, acknowledged, and connected to the risks and controls they are meant to support. Evidence needs to be organized before an audit request arrives — not assembled from […]

Regulated organizations generate more policies than ever, and most of those policies live in shared folders, inboxes, or outdated wikis where no one can track what’s current, who approved it, or whether anyone read it. For MSPs delivering compliance management software services to clients in healthcare, finance, and government, helping those clients get policy management […]

Regulatory pressure on your clients keeps climbing. So does the demand for you to prove their security posture to auditors, insurers, and upstream vendors. Blacksmith InfoSec helps MSPs turn that pressure into a structured, scalable compliance-as-a-service offering. But whether you use Blacksmith or another platform, certain GRC capabilities separate tools that help you scale from tools that become bottlenecks. […]

Three episodes, one throughline: MSPs catch flak for the compliance decisions their clients refuse to make. This roundup pulls the practical takeaways from our latest run of Get NIST-y — the podcast where we skip the framework LARP and talk about what actually works in a client environment on a Tuesday afternoon. If you missed […]

Microsoft’s Q2 2026 Email Threat Landscape report, published July 23, delivered a striking pair of numbers: phishing tied to the Tycoon2FA platform collapsed 92% after a takedown operation, while weekly malicious Microsoft Teams call attempts are now running at nearly ten times their mid-2025 baseline. Weekly Teams vishing rose 31% from April to May, another […]

Your clients are hiring a shadow workforce — Copilot Studio flows, Salesforce Einstein actions, n8n automations, coding assistants with tokens into production repos, MCP servers wired into internal data. They’re not paying it, not onboarding it, and mostly not telling you about it. BeyondTrust’s Phantom Labs clocked a 466.7% year-over-year jump in enterprise AI agents. […]

A single prompt is now enough to run a full cyber attack chain. For MSPs, that’s not science fiction — it’s a design constraint you have to build around. Cato Networks’ recent “agentic attacker” demo with GPT‑5.5 showed how a frontier model, given one offensive objective plus tools, can compress reconnaissance, exploitation, lateral movement, and […]

For MSPs, the right compliance management software is the difference between chaotic, spreadsheet-driven audits and a scalable, profitable compliance-as-a-service offering. This list breaks down seven core features that help providers reduce manual work, deliver consistent outcomes across clients, and stay audit-ready year round. Multi-Framework Coverage Your Clients Actually Need MSPs rarely support just one framework, […]