How Cybersecurity Ratings and Compliance Help Build Strong Business Relationships
Cybersecurity ratings and compliance are more than technical checkboxes — they are key drivers in building strong business relationships and earning trust among clients, vendors, and partners. Building Trust Through Transparency Security ratings offer measurable insights into an organization’s cyber posture, making it clear whether robust controls and best practices are in place. High ratings […]
Risk Appetite for Managed Service Providers (MSPs)
For Managed Service Providers (MSPs), understanding risk appetite is no longer optional — it’s essential for shaping your business strategy and long-term client success. Risk appetite is the level and type of risk an organization is willing to accept in pursuit of its objectives, acting as a guide for decision-making and balancing opportunities with threats. […]
Innovation at the Edge: Securing Progress Without Compromise
In cybersecurity and information security, innovation is both an opportunity and a liability. Organizations must adapt faster than adversaries, deploying new technologies, processes, and defenses to maintain advantage. Yet history shows that unchecked innovation — whether in AI-driven analytics, cloud migration, or zero-trust adoption — can introduce just as many vulnerabilities as it solves. The […]
Insider Threats in a Hybrid Workforce: What to Watch for in 2025
Insider threats — malicious, negligent, or even accidental breaches performed by trusted individuals — have evolved rapidly with the rise of distributed teams and the proliferation of hybrid work models. Organizations face a growing challenge: how to safeguard sensitive information when employees, contractors, and partners operate remotely, often with less oversight and on diverse networks. […]
Building Smarter Security Programs: How MSPs Can Win with Regulatory Frameworks
Cybersecurity isn’t just a technical problem but a business imperative, and the smartest Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are embracing this fact and rethinking the foundations of their security programs. The days of quick fixes and compliance as a checkbox are over. Today, the winning MSP strategy centers around building security on tried-and-tested regulatory frameworks — […]
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 […]