It’s the most wonderful time of the year! And Matt and Rich can think of no finer way to celebrate it than by hosting a great big podcast party featuring 24 of this year’s fabulous guest hosts. Actually, this episode is more like four mini-parties in which subsets of those guests discuss security and cloud computing trends from 2022, managed services trends in 2022, and predictions for 2023. ChannelPro Managing Editor Colleen Frye is back as well to host a meeting of the ChannelPro Book Club.

Managed service providers who include an automated SaaS security solution in their stack can better protect customers without adding more management time.

Growing adoption of SaaS applications increases security risk, and SMBs are counting on MSPs to have their backs. Mastering that art is a work in progress.

Winning business may grow more complicated next year, but channel companies that adapt to the transformative forces will prevail.

How to stop IoFT devices from becoming attack vectors.

Today, cyber insurance is a headache. In the future, some say, it will be smothered in guacamole and coated with zesty salsa. Or something like that. What we know for sure is that Matt, Rich, and returning guest host Joshua Liberman, of Net Sciences Inc., have plenty to say this week about cyber liability, data encryption, and the vendor community’s predictions for 2023.

Recent research from Kaseya unit Datto on the state of the MSP finds channel pros worried about the competition, an evolved break-fix making somewhat of a comeback, and more.

The MSPs that succeed next year and beyond will adjust their models to take advantage of market-shaping trends.

Encrypting everything may be overkill, but with increasing compliance regulations SMBs will need guidance on what data must be protected.

Erick and Rich discuss why CompTIA’s new Cybersecurity Trustmark fills a need in the channel, why you should consider giving your website a makeover, and why the police shouldn’t need to explain that driving with both windshields covered in snow is illegal.