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. You’ve basically put a neon sign on your back that says:

“Hey hackers, we’re an easy payday. Come on in.”

The Fatal Illusion of Self-Testing

I can’t tell you how many MSPs I talk to who proudly say, “Oh yeah, we do our own pen testing.”

Translation? They run a couple scans, pat themselves on the back, and go right back to trusting the same tools and configs that have never actually been validated by anyone objective.

You wouldn’t let your dentist check his own cavity. Or your accountant audit her own books. So why would you trust your team to find the holes they accidentally left wide open?

Worse yet, if you’re using the same vendor to patch your systems and perform your pen tests, you’ve effectively hired the fox to inspect your henhouse. Guess how often they’ll tell you the coop’s secure?

Hackers Love MSPs Like This

State-sponsored groups. Ransomware cartels. Script kiddies with too much time. They’re all out there right now scanning for the easiest targets—and MSPs with DIY pen tests or cozy vendor overlaps are at the top of the list.

When they hit you, it won’t just be your systems that get taken down. It’ll be your clients. Hundreds of them. That’s your reputation, your contracts, your entire business hanging by a very thin thread.

Want to Keep Sleeping at Night? Get a Real Third-Party Test.

Not from your patch vendor. Not from your internal team. From a third party whose sole mission is to rip your environment apart—so you can see exactly how an attacker would get in.

Because if you’re betting your entire MSP on the idea that your team is too sharp to miss anything, or your vendor is too honest to miss a billing opportunity, then you’re not managing risk. You’re inviting disaster.

Here’s Your Wake-Up Call

Schedule your Cyber Liability Analysis today. We’ll break down exactly how your stack holds up—and if it doesn’t, we’ll show you how to fix it.

Because the MSPs who keep trusting their own homework are the same ones who end up on the evening news, explaining why all their clients’ data is now sitting on a dark web auction block.

Don’t be that headline.