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New California Audit Law Just Put Your MSP on the Hook. Here’s How to Turn It Into Recurring Revenue

If your clients process sensitive data, your MSP is now part of the legal conversation.  On July 24, 2025, California finalized new rules that require businesses processing high-risk personal information to undergo annual, independent cybersecurity audits.  This isn’t just for ...

Why You Might Want to Reconsider Your WISP for Every Single Client

Why This Isn’t Just About Checking a Compliance Box If you’re running an MSP, you’ve probably heard about Written Information Security Plans (WISPs). Maybe you’ve even created one—for certain clients, in certain industries, under certain regulations. But here’s the question: ...

The Dangerous Compliance Shortcut That Could Put Your MSP on the Hook for Negligence

Imagine sitting across from your best client. They tell you they’ve found a company that can build out their entire HIPAA compliance program in under three days. No heavy lifting. Fully automated. ...

What If the IRS Stopped Auditing You? Would You Roll the Dice? 

Let’s be honest. If the IRS packed up their briefcases and decided to stop auditing tomorrow… would you get a little “creative” with your taxes?  Would you push the edge just a little more than you used to? Maybe skip ...

Why Your GRC Investment Is Doomed (And What to Do Instead)

Let me guess: you’ve finally pulled the trigger on a shiny new GRC platform. You’ve got dashboards, policy templates, user roles, workflows… and a sinking feeling in your gut that this whole compliance thing is going to fall apart in ...

If You’re an MSP and You’re Ignoring Compliance, You’re One Breach Away from Becoming a Headline

You ever watch someone walk straight into oncoming traffic? That’s what it feels like watching MSPs ignore their compliance obligations. They think because their clients are the ones with HIPAA or FTC Safeguards rules on their backs, they’re safe. Like ...

Launch Day Confession: I Thought About Faking a Cyber Incident Just to Delay Feedback

It’s here. Today’s the day. Standardized is officially out in the wild, and if you’re reading this—I’m asking for a favor: go grab your ...

Alert Fatigue Will Kill Your Team Before the Hackers Do 

What a weekend. It kicked off Wednesday night—alarms started screaming. Storm alert. Tornado alert. Flash flood alert. Lightning alert. More flood alerts. Nashville was lighting up. Sirens, texts from Metro, calls from the city, weather apps melting down. And somewhere ...

Would You Skip a Blood Test? Then Why Are You Ignoring This? 

You wouldn’t skip your annual physical. You wouldn’t ignore your dentist until your teeth started falling out. And if your doctor said you needed a colonoscopy, you might put it off… but you’d still get it done.  Because deep down, ...

Compliance as a Service Is Sinking—Are You Going Down With It?

For years, MSPs have been selling Compliance as a Service (CaaS) as a golden opportunity. Regulations were tightening. Clients were scared. And compliance frameworks seemed like the perfect way to get businesses to take security seriously.  But here’s the reality: ...

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