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 — each promising to solve your security and regulatory challenges. For managed service providers and IT organizations, this abundance of frameworks creates a paradox of choice that can paralyze decision-making […]
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, taking advantage of reduced staffing, delayed incident response capabilities, and relaxed end-user vigilance. With 85% of organizations scaling down their security operations center staffing during holidays and weekends, the summer months […]
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. The frequency and sophistication of cyberattacks continue to surge, while governments and industries worldwide impose tighter compliance requirements to safeguard sensitive data and critical infrastructure. This dual pressure — cyber […]
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 a network, encrypt critical files, and demand a ransom payment in exchange for the decryption key. This “single extortion” model relied on the victim’s inability to access their own data, […]
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 you’re still treating it like a box-checking exercise or scrambling to get your act together before regulatory deadlines, you’re doing it wrong — and it’s going to cost you. 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. We spend so much time talking about policies, procedures, and regulatory frameworks that we’ve forgotten there are actual humans trying to implement all this stuff. And those humans? They’re cracking […]
Insider Threats: Building a Culture of Trust and Vigilance
Insider threats — risks posed by individuals within an organization — remain one of the most challenging aspects of modern compliance and cybersecurity. These threats can be malicious, negligent, or even inadvertent, but the consequences are often severe. Building a culture of trust and vigilance is essential for mitigating insider threats. Identifying Insider Threats Detection […]
Understanding the Stages of Compliance Maturity
What is the Compliance Maturity Model? A compliance maturity model provides organizations with a structured pathway to evaluate and strengthen their compliance practices systematically. Rather than viewing compliance as a fixed state with some kind of ‘on-off switch’, this framework recognizes it as an evolutionary journey through distinct developmental stages — from reactive scrambling to […]
Operationalizing Compliance: What It Means, Benefits, and Maturity Signals
What distinguishes leading managed service providers when it comes to compliance-as-a-service? One just needs to check if they approach compliance as an operational fundamental rather than a check-the-box exercise. When embedded into daily workflows, compliance transforms from burden to advantage. In the face of this trend, operationalizing is a path to reducing risk, improving efficiency, and […]
Survey Insights: What GRC Leaders Are Prioritizing in 2025
Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) leaders are recalibrating their priorities for 2025, with recent global surveys of GRC professionals revealing a sharp focus on regulatory complexity, operational resilience, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence (AI) in risk management. Here’s what MSPs need to know to align their services with client priorities. Regulatory Complexity Remains the Top Challenge […]