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MSP Security Best Practices

How MSPs Can Lead Clients Through CMMC Implementation

Introduction With the Department of War (née Department of Defense)’s Implementation of CMMC 2.0 now set to begin on November 10, 2025, MSPs have a strategic window to position themselves as trusted cybersecurity and compliance partners. Many of your existing ...

SpamGPT Just Weaponized the PDF. Now What?

You ever get that gut feeling when something smells off?  That’s what one of our partners felt when a client forwarded them a resume last week. We helped them analyze it. The issue? It looked like a normal PDF. Clean, ...

The Tale of Two MSPs: Why Buying Every Shiny Security Tool Is Killing Your Business

This week, I’m at a security event. You know the scene: vendor hall packed with shiny solutions, MSP owners wandering the aisles, scratching their heads, trying to figure out what’s “must-have” and what’s just sales smoke.  I talked to two ...

Vibe Hacking: The AI Nightmare Your Clients Aren’t Ready For

Do you have a plan to save your clients from the next big cybercrime wave?  Because it’s already here. And it has a name: vibe hacking.  Sounds harmless, right? Like something your marketing intern came up with after too much ...

The Portal Problem: Are You Still Driving a Horse and Buggy?

I was talking to an MSP the other day who said, “The portal’s slow. I can’t ever find what I need.”  So I asked him, “When’s the last time you logged in?”  His answer? A few months ago.  Holy cow.  ...

“Why Bother?”: A Technician’s Perspective on Security Tools, Ownership, and What Happens Next 

Look, I’ll be straight with you. Most of us aren’t ignoring that new security tool because we’re lazy or don’t care. We’re ignoring it because deep down, we already know what it’s going to say. And if we open that ...

Phishing: The Big, Hairy Problem Nobody Has Solved (Until Now) 

Let’s talk about the elephant in the room.  Phishing is still the single biggest way attackers get in. IBM just put out their latest report for 2025, and for the first time phishing has officially overtaken stolen credentials as the ...

Stop Handing Hackers the Keys: Why CVSS 8.2 Credential Leaks Just Made Legacy Scanning Obsolete

When two high-risk CVEs (CVE-2025-32353 and CVE-2025-32354) hit last week, the message was loud and clear: the way most MSPs perform security assessments is no longer just outdated—it’s risky.  These vulnerabilities revealed that some widely used scanning tools store administrative ...

Think Your Team Has You Covered? You Might as Well Wear a “Hack Me” Sign

If you’re an MSP owner or operations leader and you think you’re covered because your engineers figured out how to run a few open-source pen testing tools, or because your vendor does your pen test right after patching your servers—congratulations. ...

How to Lose a Client in One Missed Pen Test

You know that moment when a client ghosts you? No warning. No red flags. Just gone. They don’t renew their agreement and they don’t return your calls. I just worked with an MSP who got blindsided. They were using us ...

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