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Stop Selling Cybersecurity Like You Just Discovered Fire

Let me guess—you’re out there telling prospects about your EDR. Your MDR. Maybe you even toss in a fancy SOC. You know what that sounds like in 2025? A caveman grunting about his shiny new flame. Newsflash: Everyone is selling ...

Stop Arguing About Tools—Start Defending Your Decisions

You ever get into one of those “which RMM is better” debates? Or maybe it’s EDR. Or backup. Or MDR. Or whatever new acronym the channel’s obsessing over this week.  Everyone’s got an opinion. Everyone’s got a preferred vendor. And ...

Your MSP’s Biggest Threat? An Untrained Engineer Playing Security Theater

It’s not the hackers. It’s not the budget. It’s not even the tools.  It’s your engineer—googling fixes, pasting AI scripts, and hoping something sticks.  Not because they’re bad. But because they were thrown into the fire without a process—playing pretend ...

Your Security Program Is Broken—And You Don’t Even Know It

You get your quarterly assessment back, and there they are—those ugly red marks. Things you thought were handled? Still wide open. Vulnerabilities you swore were fixed? Back again. Issues you know your team patched? Sitting there like a neon sign ...

The One MSP Mistake That Guarantees a Total Ransomware Meltdown

There’s dumb. There’s reckless. And then there’s using the same local admin password on every machine in your network. I don’t say this lightly, but if you’re still doing this, you are guaranteeing a full-blown ransomware meltdown the moment a ...

Reinventing the Wheel—and Watching It Catch Fire

In the 1800s, a guy named John Gorrie had a brilliant idea: he was going to revolutionize refrigeration. Instead of using the common vapor-compression method that actually worked, he decided to build a machine that created ice using compressed air. ...

AI-Driven Security Isn’t Enough: What 1,100 Pen Tests Just Revealed About Your MSP’s Biggest Blind Spots

There’s a dangerous myth spreading through the MSP world right now. It goes like this: “We’ve got AI-driven security tools, so we’re covered.”  Let’s burst that bubble.  After performing over 1,100 penetration tests in the last 90 days, the results ...

Hackers Are Getting Smarter—And Meaner. Are Your Clients Ready?

Last week was a bad week for firewalls. New vulnerabilities were discovered, and the worst part? If these flaws are exploited, the ...

Why You Need More Than Just a Security Program

Cybersecurity isn’t just about defending against attacks—it’s about proving you made the right decisions when an attack inevitably gets through. Because make no mistake: At some point, an attacker will get in. And with the latest developments in state-sponsored cyber ...

The MSP Software Trap: Hackers Are Using Your Tools Against You (Again)

It happened again. Another CVSS 9 security flaw—this time in backup software. I keep saying this: your tools are the way hackers are going to get in and take down your clients. And yet, I was just in a session ...

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