Archive for Mike Semel

This new version provides a major focus on governance and supply chain risk.

The Department of Defense is introducing a new level of scrutiny for MSPs, MSSPs, and security tool vendors in the battle against cybersecurity threats. Here are some things you need to keep in mind.

Potential liability, financial penalties, and your ability to get insurance are reasons why MSPs need to pay attention as the new cybersecurity strategy moves through the political process.

Use the NCSC-UK warning about working with MSPs as a roadmap to securing your services and contractually protecting your clients.

If you make promises in marketing—but don’t validate that your team is delivering—you are lying to yourself and risking legal jeopardy.

NOTE TO MSPs – Business owners and executives often resist making the cybersecurity investments they should, and channel pros often struggle to explain why they need to spend the money on the right amount of cybersecurity to protect their reputations and finances. Here’s a proven way to make the case to your customer for investing in security. Use this article to get both current customers and prospects to understand their risks.

Incorporate the 12 security action steps issued jointly by five countries in your marketing, proposals, and service offerings.

Now that new guidance from the DoD makes that clear, will MSPs run and hide, or achieve compliance to earn bigger profits?

CMMC 2.0 reduces the levels within the program from five to three, but there is still a big opportunity for MSPs.

Helping SMBs implement NIST 800-171’s 110 cybersecurity controls can be very profitable now; whatever comes of CMMC will also provide opportunities.