Blacksmith Blog

Home / Blog

Your Compliance Knowledge Hub

A Practical Guide to Choosing the Right Frameworks for Your Organization

Navigating compliance in 2025 feels like standing in front of a wall of acronyms — SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS, NIST CSF, CIS Controls, CMMC…

Mid-Year Cyber Threat Landscape Review: What’s Changed in 2025

As we reach the halfway point of 2025, the cybersecurity realm has undergone dramatic shifts that demand immediate attention from security professionals worldwide. The first…

Summer Security Slump: Protecting Your Organization During Vacation Season

Summer vacation season presents a perfect storm of cybersecurity challenges for organizations worldwide. While employees enjoy well-deserved time off, cybercriminals are ramping up their efforts,…

FAQs: Answering the Most Common Compliance Questions for Businesses

Navigating compliance is not optional for many organizations operating in the United States — and the number of businesses affected by regulations is growing. As…

MSP Compliance in 2025: The Ultimate Guide for Managed Services Providers

In an era defined by relentless cyber threats and increasingly stringent regulations, Managed Services Providers (MSPs) find themselves at the heart of a digital battleground.…

Quantum Computing and Cryptography: Preparing for the Future

Quantum computing promises breakthroughs in fields like drug discovery and AI, but it also poses an existential threat to modern encryption. As organizations store and…

Understanding Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Identity and Access Management, or IAM, is a foundational framework of business processes, policies, and technologies that organizations use to manage digital identities and control…

Cybersecurity Acronyms: Let’s Talk SOC, SOAR, XDR and More

Some might say cybersecurity has an acronym problem. For the average person, it can seem like everyone in the industry got together and decided to…

What Is an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) in Cybersecurity?

An advanced persistent threat (APT) is a sophisticated, long-term cyberattack in which an intruder establishes an undetected presence within a network to steal sensitive data…

How MSPs Can Prepare for Evolving US Privacy Laws in 2025

Privacy in the United States is evolving at a breakneck pace, and 2025 is shaping up to be a landmark year. With at least eight…

Ransomware in 2025 and the Rise of Multiple Extortion

Ransomware has undergone a dramatic transformation over the past decade. In its early days, ransomware attacks followed a relatively simple playbook: threat actors would infiltrate…

Operationalizing Compliance: 2025 Guide for MSPs and Enterprises

By this point, we’re all aware that compliance isn’t something you can shove into a filing cabinet and forget about until audits roll around. If…

The Human Side of Compliance: Mental Health and Ethics

Let’s talk about something nobody wants to admit: compliance work is slowly burning people out, and it’s creating bigger problems than anyone wants to acknowledge.…