The MSP Zone

Death of Pay as You Go?

MSPs are facing increased pressure by some vendors who are requiring minimum recurring revenue levels in order to add new services, such as security. What will this mean for your MSP practice? We will discuss on today’s episode. 

How Can MSPs Best Support Clients in Healthcare

MSPs serving the healthcare sector have played a unique and important role in the last year. Frontline medical staff have helped lead the charge against a global pandemic. What challenges have MSPs serving this sector experienced? How have they overcome those challenges? We talk with an MSP who shares their stories around managing IT for healthcare clients and what it takes to be successful in that vertical market. 
MSP Zone Guest: Bryan Fuller, Contigo Technology

The MSP Compliance Journey

MSPs have maturity journeys they take, often starting as highly manual, reactive companies, but moving towards greater efficiency, automation, and profitability. The same is true with compliance. MSPs need to have a charted path towards compliance, regardless of where they are on the path. If you don't know where you are, you're at the beginning. Let's get you started down your compliance journey.

Kaseya Buys Security Operations Center

MSP platform company Kaseya, just announced that it has acquired RocketCyber, an MSP that provides Security Operations Center (SOC) services to MSPs. 

Defining Managed Services for Compliance

People used to ask (they still do) what is an MSP. Typically, they'd follow up with another question, how do you define managed services? These questions are still relevant today but for slightly different reasons. 
This Episode sponsored by Avast

Vendor Supply Chain Data Breaches - What Should You Do?

What obligations do MSPs have when they learn of a data breach within one of their supply chain vendors? Does such a breach automatically mean the MSP needs to issue a notification? Perhaps not. This episode will discuss this topic and provide MSPs with some valuable analysis and helpful insights. MSP Zone Guest: Rob Scott, Scott & Scott, LLP
 

A Security Discussion Around Sunburst

What was the sunburst attack and how can MSPs protect themselves against in the future? That’s what we’ll be discussing in today’s episode. 
MSP Zone Guest: Brian Stoner, Stellar Cyber

Should MSPs Help Clients with Controls?

It's easy to think of MSPs only as providers of an IT service, but what about IT controls? Should MSPs help their clients in creating and implementing IT controls as part of a managed services relationship? The short answer is yes, probably.

MSP Project Work in 2021

2021 looks like it will be a lot better than 2020, especially when it comes to IT spending. But, if you are an MSP and want to safeguard your practice against future risks, there are some things you should consider as you begin implementing your 2021 business plan.

Can you save money in the public cloud?

Can you save money by moving to the public cloud? Of course, you can. Well, maybe. The answer really depends. What started as a response to the 2009 global financial crisis should not be generally applied to all scenarios where on-premise infrastructure is placed into the public cloud. There are always exceptions and best practices. 
MSP Zone Guest: Christopher Church, Mainstream Technologies